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improving sustainable job creation and improvement in Uganda. The
dilemmas the country is facing ranges from excessive poverty, graduate
unemployment; over dependence on overseas items and technology; as well
as low economic growth and development. These dilemmas are partly
triggered by using improper education system especially at the university
level. Many people argue that university education in Uganda is principally
for its very own sake â to impart knowledge and a love of getting to know
with greater paper qualifications. University training is for academic
superiority disconnected from day-to-day realities, a closed environment in
which information and intellect is the sanctuary of the self-selecting,
privileged few â no grasp of what is vital for ordinary people. Yet the fact of
university schooling is about helping humans grow in their lives by
supporting them to live better life. This paper hence contends that change of
universities in Uganda, from ivory tower to entrepreneurial universities, will
prepare the students with the conduct, states of mind and attitudes with which
to be self-reliant and contribute to job creation and advancement. The paper
starts by highlighting the concept of university as an ivory tower. The
objectives and framework for designing entrepreneurial university is
presented next. The paper suggests that university programmes at all levels
of instruction ought to be made significant to the community so as to supply
the youth with the required entrepreneurial aptitude.
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AIT Newsletter June 2019
1. 1JUNE 2019 www.ait.ac.th
Asian Institute of Technology JUNE 2019
4 LESSONS FOR GRADUATES FROM DISTINGUISHED
60TH ANNIVERSARY GRADUATION SPEAKER
Be ready when an opportunity presents itself. Take cal-
culated risks, especially when you are still young. Know
thyself and have a vision. Finally, be a leader, not a fol-
lower. These four lessons were offered by Prof. Tony F.
Chan, President of the King Abdullah University of Sci-
ence and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, at the 131st
graduation of AIT held on 17 May 2019. Offering lessons
based on his personal experiences, when he, as a student
opted for the newly emerging field of computer sciences,
Prof Chan quoted the example of Jeff Bezos who left a
lucrative Wall Street job to start Amazon.
Prof. Chan highlighted four significant changes in the op-
erating environment of universities: globalization, chang-
ing expectations, technological disruption, and the emer-
gence of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Universities will have to chart their own individual course
in order to respond to these challenges, Prof. Chan said, as
he enumerated four possible ways of responding: devis-
ing a global and international strategy, creating a balance
between its long-term mission of creating knowledge and
short-term societal expectations, encouraging technol-
ogy and knowledge transfer, and creating an environment
conducive to innovation and nurturing talent. âThe case in
point for AIT, in particular, is that Thailand and much of
Southeast Asia are on Chinaâs Belt and Road. How will it
leverage this initiative?â Prof. Chan remarked.
Congratulating graduates, President Dr. Eden Y. Woon
stated that the motto of the Instituteâs sixtieth-anniversary
is âTransforming AIT.â Exhorting students to embark on
a path of lifelong learning and transformation, Dr. Woon
stated that âany living organization or human being must
transform or face irrelevance. In the same way, you have
to constantly learn and transform yourselves,â just as AIT
realized that if you do not continuously renew yourself,
you will soon become irrelevant, Dr. Woon said.
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Recent News / Happenings at AIT............................................3
Global Engagements................................................................4
Seminars/Workshops/People...................................................5
Backpage.................................................................................6
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1, 15-19 Scenes from AITâs Graduation, 2. Dr. Torsak Lertsrisakulrat 3.Mr. Sanchai Thiewprasertkul 4. Prof. Worsak Kanok-
Nukulchai 5. Prof. Ajit P. Annachhatre 6. Prof. Jayant Kumar Routray 7. Prof. Bonaventura H. W. Hadikusumo 8. Prof. Matthew
N. Dailey 9. Prof. Shobhakar Dhakal 10. Prof. Thammarat Koottatep 11. Prof. Mukand Singh Babel 12. Dr. P. Abdul Salam 13.
Prof. Manukid Parnichkun, 14. Dr. Sangam Shrestha
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3. 3JUNE 2019 www.ait.ac.th
AIT Scales Up to the Next Level of Knowledge Management with the
Launch of AIT Share
AITisscalinguptothenextlevelinknowledgesharingwiththelaunch
of AIT Share, an e-Learning platform aimed at educators, executives,
students, or anyone interested in furthering their knowledge. The new
platform, which comes with the slogan âKnowledge Worth Sharing,â
allows participants to acquire new knowledge, improve their skills,
take certificate courses, and obtain professional masters-level degrees.
Recounting the AIT Share journey was Dr. Naveed Anwar, AIT's
Vice President for Knowledge Management, who spearheaded
the initiative. âWe began by creating an offline learning platform
for the Ministry of Construction in Myanmar, where we offered
e-courses and merged these with classroom-based instruction,â Dr.
Naveed revealed. âThis hybrid model was then replicated for the Sri
Lanka Ports Authority, and over time, we created the fully-fledged
knowledge portal that is being launched today,â he added. During this
time, AIT Solutions, which was previously headed by Dr. Naveed,
also created a Knowledge Lab as well as theAIT Smart Learning Lab.
SCG Collaborates with AIT to Unveil Thailandâs First Reinvented Toilet
Thailandâs first toilet, the âSCG Reinvented Toiletâ has been unveiled
in Bangkok. The toilet includes an integrated waste treatment system
that can disinfect waste and separate liquids and solids with a 100%
efficiency. Pilot units of the SCG Reinvented Toilet have been
installed in a public space located right next to the Khlong Phlabphla
Canal in Rama IX, Bangkok.
The SCG Reinvented Toilet was developed by Chemicals Business,
SCG in collaboration withAIT in an effort to improve basic sanitation
for communities and contribute to environmental sustainability. Initial
development of the toilet was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. Pilot units of the toilet were installed for public use on
3 May 2019 in Bangkok. The self-contained toilet helps ensure safe
waste disposal, prevents harmful pathogens from being released into
rivers and reduces the spread of infectious diseases. The invention
also makes it possible to recover useful resources from solid waste
and use them as soil conditioners.
Cholanat Yanaranop, President of Chemicals Business, SCG, stressed
that the SCG Reinvented Toilet is the product of a collaboration
between Chemicals Business, SCG and AIT.
AIT Share was jointly inaugurated on 24
May 2019 by Dr. Subin Pinkayan, Chair of
the AIT Board of Trustees, and Dr. Eden Y.
Woon, President of AIT.
RECENT NEWS / HAPPENINGS AT AIT
From left: Dr. Naveen Anwar, Dr. Subin
Pinkayan, and Dr. Eden Y Woon launching AIT
Share.
Inauguration of SCG Reinvented Toilet
5. 5JUNE 2019 www.ait.ac.th
SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/PEOPLE
SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS
AIT alumnus Mr.
Abdul Tawab Bala
Karzai has been
appointed Acting
Minister of Higher
Education in
Afghanistan. Mr.
Bala Karzai was
a student in Water
AIT Alumnus Appointed Acting
Minister of Higher Education in
Afghanistan
Engineering and Management (WEM) from 2008-2010.
After graduating, he joined Kandahar University where
he served as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Before this appointment, Mr. Bala Karzai served as
Deputy Minister for Academic Affairs. It is in this ca-
pacity that he visited AIT in February 2018.
The 2019 Mary Fran Myers
Gender and Disaster Award
has been awarded to Dr.
Bernadette ResurrecciĂłn,
former faculty member ofAIT
and currently Distinguished
Adjunct Faculty at AIT.
Named after Mary Fran
Myers, the codirector of the
Mary Fran Myers Gender and
Disaster Award to Bernadette
ResurrecciĂłn
Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado,
the award recognizes disaster professionals who promote
research on gender issues in disasters and emergency
management. Dr. Bernadette ResurrecciĂłn is currently
working as a Senior Research Fellow with the Stockholm
Environment Institute (SEI) Asia Center. Highlighting
AIT, the award citation notes: âDuring her 13 years atAIT,
ResurrecciĂłn designed cutting-edge courses on gender,
environment, and natural resource management.â
Seminar on Inequality
and Development in
DevelopingAsia
Prof. Donald Low, Hong
Kong University of
Science & Technology
(HKUST)
3 May 2019
SouthAsian Network
for Development
and Environmental
Economics (SANDEE)
Summer School in
Environmental and
Resource Economics
5-19 May 2019
Talk: Plastic Waste
Reduction to Prevent
Marine Litter
Mr. Paradorn Chulajata,
Chairman of Plastic
Industry Club
8 May 2019
Special Seminar Series
on Space Technology
Dr. Shinichi Nakamura,
Space Tracking and
Communication Center,
JapanAerospace
ExplorationAgency
(JAXA) Tsukuba Space
Center
23-24 May 2019
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Prof. Chongrak Polprasert (left) and Prof.
Thammarat Koottatep (right) presenting their
book to Ms. Watcharin Intha, Director, AIT
Library.
A book by AIT authors posits a new paradigm for Sanitation 4.0.
Focusing on regenerative sanitation and described by the authors as
the next era in sanitation management, the new book by Prof. Tham-
marat Koottatep, Dr. Peter Emmanuel Cookey, and Prof. Chongrak
Polprasert calls for a change in narrative and a rethinking of sanita-
tion towards more progressive trajectories such as resource recovery
and reuse rather than just amelioration.
Titled "Regenerative Sanitation: A New Paradigm For Sanitation
4.0," the 350-page book was published by International Water As-
sociation Publications.
While Prof. Thammarat and Prof. Chongrak serve at AIT, at the time
of writing, Dr. Peter Emmanuel Cookey of the IHE Delft Institute of
Water Education in the Netherlands was working in Environmental
Engineering and Management at AIT.
AIT Publication Presents a New Paradigm for Sanitation 4.0
Geoinformatics Center Celebrates
20 Years