Postgraduates 2,000-3,000 Campus Suburban Founded 1960 President Suchatchavee Suwansawas | Established 1960 Founder Liam Bunnag Phone +66 2 329 8000 Undergraduates 18,000 | |
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Motto "Education and research on science and technology form the basis of national development"("การศึกษาวิจัยด้านวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีเป็นรากฐานของการพัฒนาประเทศ") Notable alumni Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Kokaew Pikulthong, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Tanawat Wattanaputi, Thanonchai Sornsriwichai Similar King Mongkut's University, King Mongkut's University, Srinakharinwirot University, Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University | ||
Congratulation puii king mongkut s institute of technology ladkrabang
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL for short) is a research and educational institution in Thailand. It is in the city of Bangkok, Thailand. KMITL was founded in 1960 in Nonthaburi province as a telecommunications training center under the technical support of the Japanese government; the center was later named the Nonthaburi Institute of Telecommunications. After moving to a new location at Lat Krabang near Suvarnabhumi Airport, the campus became King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang.
Contents
- Congratulation puii king mongkut s institute of technology ladkrabang
- Overview
- Faculties and departments
- Research Center for Communication and Information Technology ReCCIT
- IndustryUniversity Cooperative Research Center in Data Storage Technology and Applications
- Campuses
- Notable faculty and alumni
- Sister Universities
- References
Engineering began at KMITL in 1960 with a course on telecommunications engineering. In 1982 KMITL launched the nation's first doctoral degree in electrical engineering and awarded a doctorate in electrical engineering to Dr. Chom Kimpan, who also earned the first Doctor of Engineering granted by a Thai university. More recently KMITL has partnered with Thailand Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, a joint effort among Tokyo Institute of Technology, Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency, KMITL and SIIT to offer international master's degree in Automotive Engineering. From its inception up, KMITL has grown to include seven faculties and affiliated research centers.
Overview
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) is located in Lat Krabang (approximately 30 kilometres east of the center of Bangkok) and is a university with seven faculties: engineering, architecture, agricultural technology, science, industrial education, agricultural industry, and information technology.
Since a technical cooperation agreement (August 1960-August 1965) was reached between the Japanese and Thai governments in 1960 to establish a telecommunications training center in Thailand, Japan has continued the cooperation over the course of 40 years. The telecommunications training center became a three-year specialty college in 1964, and then in 1971 joined two other colleges and rose to the ranks of an institute of technology. Part of the school moved to the Ladkrabang campus, and architecture, industrial education/science, and agricultural technology departments were established.
On the Japanese side, Tokai University (1977), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1992) and University of Electro-Communications (1997) concluded academic exchange agreements with the school and assisted with such things as the expansion of the university, human resource development and research promotion as part of second phase (December 1978-August 1983) and third phase (April 1988-March 1993) “Project-type Technical Cooperation” projects. Also, a Japanese corporation funded scholarship system was established (1971), as well as practical factory-based training (1977), a construction scholarship system (1989), etc. Thus, actual cooperation activities involving linkages with industry as well as things like the start of an invitation program to the Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy and a human resource exchange with a public institution were promoted. Furthermore, through the “Partners Project” (1992), making use of a satellite launched by Japan, joint experiments in applied technology (areas such as distance medicine, distance education, computer networking, satellite broadcast, and joint development of a human resource training system using distance education, as well as the implementation of a continuation project called the “Post-Partners Project” (1996).
Besides this, as a way of making use of the developed skills and facilities for the benefit of other developing countries, JICA has been active in supporting KMITL in organizing “third-country training” in information technology (started in 1978; presently known as the Japan-Thai Partnership Program, JTTP; having completed 11 programs with 13 courses established), dispatched KMITL professors to the engineering department of National University of Laos and supported KMITL’s acceptance of research students from universities in Laos.
At present, KMITL has been recognized as one of the science and technology universities in Thailand. This could be because of Japan’s long-term and ongoing assistance; comprehensive assistance to the university, industry and each level of government; the significant influence of early graduates of study abroad programs in Japan. In the future, one can expect continued development through KMITL’s participation in the Southeast Asia Engineering Education Network (SEED-NET) and strengthening of links with other higher education institutions.
Faculties and departments
Research Center for Communication and Information Technology (ReCCIT)
The KMITL Research Center for Communication and Information Technology (ReCCIT) project is the fourth “project-type technical cooperation” project implemented at KMITL and has as its goals strengthening the center’s research and development capacity and the graduate school program. The implementing partner organizations are the Ministry of University Affairs and KMITL, and a Japan-based advisory committee (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications or formerly Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications; Tokyo Institute of Technology; Tokai University) has been established. Through dispatch of experts in information technology, technical training of overseas participants, provision of research and educational equipment, the goals of the project are being pursued. These are: 1) establishment of an information technology research center; and 2) strengthening of graduate school programs in the field of information technology at the Center and other research labs that are the targets of the cooperation. Through these research facilities, KMITL maintains creative partnerships with government and private industry.
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Data Storage Technology and Applications
The I/UCRC in Data Storage Technology and Applications or iDSTA is formed under partnership between KMITL and NECTEC under the Thailand's Hard Disk Drive Competitiveness Enhancement Program. The aim is to increase research and development activities in this area and to enhance cooperation among researchers and between the researchers and the HDD industry in Thailand.