Mahanakorn College

Specialist in engineering education

Mahanakorn College is a tertiary institution established four years ago especially to provide mainly engineering education, both at the bachelor and the graduate degree levels. It has one of the biggest engineering faculties in Thailand, with a student body of approximately 5,000. It is also one of the most rapidly growing technical universities in the country. The main broad objectives of Mahanakorn College are:

To provide first-class engineering education and other technical training to satisfy the manpower requirement of the country during its period of rapid industrial development.
To develop high value-added products for industries.
To train researchers through high-quality original research in the various fields of engineering, to prepare for Thailand's emergence as a fully developed modern nation.

In order to ensure the successful implementation of these objectives, Mahanakorn College is rigorously implementing the following policies:

Only academic staff of the highest caliber are accepted to the faculties.
A very extensive staff development program has been implemented with leading universities both in the United Kingdom (Imperial College) and in Australia (University of New South Wales).
Leading-edge research and teaching facilities are provided. Mahanakorn staff and students enjoy one of the best-equipped laboratory environments in the country.
Numerous state-of-the-art engineering design and simulation softwares are incorporated into the teaching courses and are available for research.
Excellent library for engineering books and journals is provided.
Research and Development Areas

Mahanakorn College has targeted research and development areas which are expected to play important roles in the technological development of the country, namely:

Microprocessor-based equipment and systems designs, where a large team of application experts are available to conduct research and development projects using probably the best-equipped laboratory in the country.
VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits) design, where custom and semi-custom circuits can be designed using world-standard softwares. All electronic engineering graduates will also be conversant in the design techniques of VLSI.
ASIC (Applications Specific Integrated Circuits) design, with major emphasis on analog circuit design. Extensive expertise is available in the area of analog integrated circuits at both full custom and semi-custom levels. Integrated circuit design courses are standard to most electrical engineering-related courses.
Microwave and High frequency systems designs. This is a field of extremely rapid development in Thailand and Mahanakorn College is fully prepared to conduct leading-edge, as well as application- oriented research projects in this area, again using the world standard both in measuring equipment and in simulation softwares.
Computer simulations of systems, where large numbers of the highest performance workstations are available for research.

International Relations

Mahanakorn College enjoys a very close relationship with both the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in the United Kingdom and the University of New South Wales in Australia. Regular academic ex-changes are conducted. The two institutions also help in the staff development plan of Mahanakorn College, where approximately 150 staff members will be sent for higher degree training at the two institutions over a ten-year period.

To ensure close collaboration on research projects, Mahanakorn College has also founded a Readership in Electronic Circuit Design at Imperial College. The present holder is Dr. Chris Toumazou, who is inter-nationally recognized asthe foremost expert in the field of analog circuit design. He will personally supervise a number of Mahanakorn staff in the area of analog integrated circuit research, as well as collaborate closely in the research work being done at Mahanakorn College.

General Philosophy

Due to our very active staff development plan, it is expected that Mahanakorn College will soon have one of the highest concentrations of technical experts in the fields of electrical, electronic, computer, control, telecommunication, mechanical and civil engineering. Presently, the number of technical academic staff at Mahanakorn College is approximately 150, and it should rise to 300 in the next few years.

The most up-to-date research and teaching equipment and softwares are provided to ensure that staff and students at Mahanakorn College enjoy a unique envi-ronment to help develop Thailand's technological prowess.

Research Fellowships

Several research fellowships in electrical, electronic, mechanical and civil engineering are available from Mahanakorn College. For more information, please contact:

        Dr. Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, President  or
        Dr. Lerkiat Vongsarnpigoon, Dean of Engineering Mahanakorn College
        P.O. Box 10, Nong-Chok District
        Bangkok 10530,Thailand
        Tel: +66 2 543-2711/4
        Fax: +66 2 543-1627

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