CEIM join AIT Team to Afghanistan 8-15 March 2008

Dear All

Dr. BHW Hadikusumo joined AIT Team to Afghanistan. The mission of this business trip was to assess the Departments of Balkh University including the Department of Construction.

We arrived in Kabul on Sunday 9 march and continued 7 hours surface travel to Mazara-e Sharif where Balkh University is located.

During the assessment, we really appreciate the cooperativeness of Balkh University's faculty members who really shared to us their actual situation. AIT will assist them to develop a modern curriculum and lab equipment and help the faculty members to implement the curriculum.

Bad and Good news. On our way back to Bangkok, Dr. Hadi and Dr. Guha (from computer science) went to Kabul Airport on Thursday morning 13 March. The Bad news is just before we arrived at the airport, the airport car park was blasted by suicide car bombing. The good news is i can still write this blogspot which means that we were very lucky that we came quite late to the airport because we enjoyed breakfast and chatting at the hotel and waiting the check-out process. Afghan newspaper reported that 8 people were killed during the massive bombing. This bombing happened just one day after the US Military stated that Afghan government controls only 30% of the territory.

Detail of the news can be read from http://www.afghannews.net/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2715

By the way, Afghanistan is a very beautiful country with high mountain and snow. From Kabul to Mazar-e Sharif, we passed SALANG, a very beautiful landscape.

I upload the photos for you ....

Regards

Posted by
Dr. BHW Hadikusumo
CEIM Coordinator
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/ceim/

" CEIM offers Master and Doctoral degrees in Construction Project Management and Infrastructure Management in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam "

Allan Tannaya works at Consultant Dispute Resolution in California

Dear All

I received an email from Mr. Allan Tanaya as below. He is one of our alumni joining PETRAIT (Petra Surabaya Indonesia and AIT) program. He graduated in May 2007, then he went to USA.

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Dear Dr. Hadi,

I hope you are doing very well. Currently, I am in Carlsbad, CA, USA, working for CDR Consultants as a Project Consultant, which responsible to perform support work for construction dispute claims analysis, construction project execution, CPM scheduling, and Construction project execution.
CDR company provides an array of project management and construction management consulting services with four operating divisions, Project Risk Management, Construction Dispute Resolution, Management Consulting, and Training and Education.

If you need more detail regarding this company, you can go to their website http://www.cdrconsultants.com/.

Have a great day

Regards,

Allan Tannaya.
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I wish you successfull with your career in the US.

Note: if you would like to know Alan's email address, please contact me.

Regards

Posted by
Dr. BHW Hadikusumo
CEIM Coordinator
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/ceim/

" CEIM offers Master and Doctoral degrees in Construction Project Management and Infrastructure Management in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam "

IECM Conference 2008

Dear CEIM Students


Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) is organizing "International Engineering and Construction Management" Conference on 3-4 March 2008. http://www.iecmthailand.com/ Asian Institute of Technology/CEIM is one of the sponsoring organizations.

The organizer is kindly inviting 15 CEIM/AIT students to attend this conference for free (including lunch).

CEIM will provide and arrange transportation for students who are interested to join.

As of today, I received several names who are interested to join:
01. Mr. Arthasit (Thailand)
02. Mr. Alex (Myanmar)
03. Mr. Phoutassen (Lao PDR)
04. Ms. Cam Thien (Vietnam)
05. Mr. Hiep (Vietnam)
06. Mr. Kang Ning Fu (Taiwan)
07. MR. Tran Minh Tung (Vietnam)
08. Mr. Tran Huong Quang (Vietnam)
09. Mr. Bhanupong (Thailand)
10. Mr. Rathsayam (Thailand)
11. Ms. Piyada (Thailand)
12. Mr. Hassan Faziliani (Iran)
13. Mr. Weerayudh (Thailand)
14. Mr. Andreas Adihartanto (Indonesia)
15. Mr. Alvin (Indonesia)

Below students have to wait for the organizer to confirm whether more than 15 students can join:

16. Mr. Ahsem Maqsoom (Pakistan)
17. Ms. Vivi Megawati (Indonesia)
18. Ms. Atcharaporn (Thailand)
19. Ms. Katsuda Limsila (Thailand)
20. Mr. Braj Mahato (Nepal)


Regards
Hadikusumo

CEIM Community congratulates Dr. Nguyen Duy Long (CEIM 2003) who has succesfully finished his PhD at UC Berkley

From Dr. Chotchai:

Dear Dr. Long,

I am very happy on ur major mailstone acheivement. Seeing our students
being successful is one of the major job statisfaction of teachers. One
student told me that AIT was like a star gate. Ordinary people came to
AIT. Once they go out, they can go as far as they can be.

As always,

Dr. Chotchai
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From Prof. Ogunlana:

Dr. Long,

Congratulations!

Please use S.O.Ogunlana@hw.ac.uk in further correspondences.

Best wishes,

Stephen Ogunlana
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From Dr. BHW Hadikusumo:

Dear Dr. Nguyen Duy Long

Congratulations for you successful achievement in getting the highest
degree in education.

Regards
Hadikusumo
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From Mr. Setha Yoosomsook

Hi Mr.Long,

Long time no see, "Our usual words".

Congratulations !!!

Wish you enjoy the work there, and

when back to here, do not forget to

get pass Bangkok.

Take Care

Settha
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From Suchanya:

Dear Long,
...You Did So Well...
CONGRATULATIONS!!

Suchanya (moodang)
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From Ria:

Congratulation Mr. Long

May you have a bright future a head with PhD in your hand

-ria-
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From Dr. Dinh Tuan Hai:

Best wishes to Long and families.

Hai

Vietnam
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From Patchawarat Jasopasrat

Congratulation naka... Mr. Long...
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From Nguyen Van Thuyet:

So great Mr. Long. Big Congatulations....

Hope to see you there in US :-)

P/s: Happy new year to All

Regards,

Thuyet NGUYEN

Posted by
Dr. BHW Hadikusumo
CEIM Coordinator
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/ceim/

" CEIM offers Master and Doctoral degrees in Construction Project Management and Infrastructure Management in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam "

Job Vacancy at CUEL - Project Planner

Dear All

I received this from our alumni, Dr. Djoen Santoso.

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My company CUEL is looking for a project planner who have experience in P3.

Urgent!

Best Regards,

Kanchana Varoonchotikul
CUEL Project Planner
Tel 0-2500-1338

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Note: CUEL is a company operating in oil and gas projects.

Posted by
Dr. BHW Hadikusumo
CEIM Coordinator
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/ceim/

" CEIM offers Master and Doctoral degrees in Construction Project Management and Infrastructure Management in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam "

Happy Lunar New Year

Dear All

CEIM wishes you Happy Lunar New Year (Rat Year)!

May this New Year bring happiness, health and prosperity to you, family and friends.

Posted by
Dr. BHW Hadikusumo
CEIM Coordinator
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/ceim/

" CEIM offers Master and Doctoral degrees in Construction Project Management and Infrastructure Management in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam "

Dr. Chotchai and Dr. Hadikusumo organized MPM and CEIM Introductory Seminar in Saigon on 29 Jan 2008

On 28 January 2008, Dr. Chotchai and Dr. Hadikusumo organized "MPM and CEIM Introductory Seminar" in SEAMEO, Saigon. The purpose of the seminar is to explain our MPM and CEIM program and curriculum to potential students.

Dr. Chotchai made a presentation on "The Need of Higher Education in Project Management". According to him, the construction growth in Vietnam is very high at about 12% of the National GDP. Vietnam is facing a new environment in constructing projects such as international investors and high complexity projects. He discussed that there is a big opportunity in the project management career especially for students who get their degree from international universities. Many Foreign Direct Investors project need qualified engineers who have good project management knowledge and English proficiency.

He mentioned that so far engineers learn project management through (i) short course training which is not sufficient to learn holistic view of project management and (ii) experience which may cost a lot of money since delay and cost overrun may happen.

Short course trainings usually only teach the hard components of project management such as cost estimation and control and project scheduling. However, due to the nature and characteristic of projects in which many companies and people work together at the same time, Project Manager needs to have the 'soft components' of project management such as communication management and skills, negotiation, team management, leadership, project organization and contract risk management which hardly can be learned through a short course training. This is one of the reasons for why CEIM offers higher education (i.e. master and doctoral) in Project Management in Construction.

Another reason, project manager needs to develop his/her problem solving skills. This problem solving skill can only be learned through intensive research work in which a scientific approach is used (observation, hypothesis development, hypothesis testing and analysis).

After Dr. Chotchai's presentation, Dr. Hadi made a presentation about 'Professional Master of Engineering in Project Management in Construction (MPM)' and 'Two-Phase Master and PhD'. Dr. Hadi highlighted that MPM is designed based on a balance between theoretical and practical aspects of project management knowledge while two-phase programs emphasize more on the theoretical aspects. Therefore, MPM is suitable for professionals who have been working in construction industry for at least three years, while two phase programs are suitable for fresh graduate engineers and researchers.

The seminar was attended by 25 potential students.

Posted by
Dr. BHW Hadikusumo
CEIM Coordinator
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/ceim/

" CEIM offers Master and Doctoral degrees in Construction Project Management and Infrastructure Management in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam "