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Congratulations to the students from the Chulalongkorn University High Altitude Research Club (CUHAR) for winning 3rd Place in the 30K COTS category at the International Rocket Engineering Competition 2025 (IREC 2025), held in Midland, Texas, USA, from June 9–14, 2025. . In the 30K COTS category of the competition, the University of Canterbury team won the first prize, and the University of Melbourne team the second among qualified 144 world-class aerospace engineering institutes including the University of California at Berkeley, Purdue University, University of Texas at Austin, and Seoul National University. . The competition grand challenges reflects students’ aerospace engineering skills to design and develop a high-performance rocket capable of operating effectively in unpredictable atmospheric conditions. Moreover, the rocket featured a precise and reliable tracking system capable of accurately identifying its location. This achievement marks another milestone in the pursuit of high-quality education and advancement in aerospace technology. . We would like to express our gratitude to the generous sponsors for their tremendous support for our students. 1. Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University 2. Kasikornbank Public Company Limited 3. Thaicom Public Company Limited 4. Supcharoenying Wirecut Company Limited 5. Threebees.th 6. RUD Lifting (Thailand) Co., Ltd. List of teams selected

On June 5, 2025, the Faculty of Engineering at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), hosted the International Senior Project Conference 2025 (ISPC 2025) in Bangkok, Thailand. . Two teams of the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, won the Best Presentation Awards. The first team, including Mr. Isoon Chanchongkham, Mr. Prarunchai Ruttanaprasert, and Mr. Teerawat Riensuwon (Undergraduate students in the Industrial Engineering Program), presented their engineering project, “Finding the Building Fire Evacuation Strategy Improvement through Agent-based Simulation.” Their research is supervised by Assoc. Prof. Natt Leelawat, D.Eng. (Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University), and Dr. Jing Tang (Lecturer at the International School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University). They explored the use of simulation modeling to optimize fire evacuation strategies and enhance emergency preparedness. . And the second team, including Mr. Napat Leewiboolsip, Mr. Phasinth Srinutapong, Mr. Pitipat Fongsarun (Undergraduate Students in Information and Communication Engineering Program), Mr. Alfan Kurnia Yudha (Ph.D. Student in Industrial Engineering Program), Dr. Kumpol Saengtabtim (Postdoctoral researcher), presented their engineering project “ESG-driven Portfolio for Long-term Investment with Machine Learning.” Their research is supervised by Dr. Jing Tang (Lecturer at the International School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University) and

Chula Engineering professors and students won the JDR Award for the Most Cited Paper 2024 . On December 20, 2024, the Editorial Office of the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR) hosted the JDR Award Ceremony at the Gakushi Kaikan in Tokyo, Japan. During the ceremony, Assoc. Prof. Natt Leelawat, D.Eng., Assistant Dean for International Affairs and Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, was honored with the JDR Award for the Most Cited Paper of 2024. The award recognized his team’s published article, “Twitter Sentiment Analysis on Bangkok Tourism During the COVID-19 Situation Using Support Vector Machine Algorithm.” . This article, published in 2021, is a work by Thanapat Sontayasara, Sirawit Jariyapongpaiboon, Arnon Promjun, Napat Seelpipat, Dr. Kumpol Saengtabtim (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University), Dr. Jing Tang (Lecturer of the International School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University), and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Natt Leelawat (corresponding author). It was published in the Journal of Disaster Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 24-30. You can read the article here: https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2021.p0024

The signing ceremony of this Memorandum of Agreement was held at the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University on December 24, 2024. It was signed between the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University and KPMG Phoomchai Business Advisory Ltd. to demonstrate their commitment to collaborate in the exchange of knowledge and to promote the development of sustainable knowledge suitable for Thai society. This collaboration aims to drive businesses of all levels towards sustainability, thereby supporting Thailand’s efforts to achieve sustainable development goals. The cooperation covers aspects of environmental (Environment), social (Social), and governance (Governance) development. The objectives of this collaboration are to jointly manage appropriate sustainable knowledge for the Thai business and society, enhance capabilities, integrate cooperation to develop the readiness of personnel, and promote collaboration in raising awareness of sustainable development among businesses and society. This includes supporting government policies on sustainability. . Under this collaboration, both parties have outlined joint operational guidelines to support knowledge exchange activities on sustainability. These include exchanging lectures between the Faculty of Engineering and the company in sustainability area, accepting internships by the company, and jointly supporting the organization of seminars to disseminate research findings on thought leadership and sustainability knowledge (Thought Leadership and Publication)