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Free Seminar for Chula Engineering Students (all majors) Department of Industrial Engineering, Chula Engineering, and The University of Tokyo, Japan, present “Text Mining by Using Python: Application to Patent Documents” Instructor: Prof. Kazuyuki Motohashi (U-Tokyo, Japan) Teaching Assitant: Dr. Suchit Pongnumkul Date: May 27, 29, 31, 2019 Time: 09:00-12:00 Venue: Room 407, 4F, Engineering Building 4, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University Language: English (and Thai by TA) Contents – Introduction to patent data analysis – What is patent data? Why is it used for technology management research? – Various kinds of patent database: PATSTAT, JPO (IIP patent database), USPTO – Keyword extraction, TF-IDF, similarity measures – VIDEO (O’Reilly Media) https://www.oreilly.com/learning/how-do-i-compare-document-similarity-using-python – HOMEWORK: Apply patent abstract documents to the Video exercise above, and extract three keywords by using TF-IDF scores Patent Similarity – Review of homework – Preprocessing of text: tokenization regularization (lowering character), stemming/lemmatization and stop words exclusion – Text processing of tf-idf vectors: 1. Create dictionary: mapping every word to a number 2. Corpus (list of bags of words) : a list of number of words occurring in each documents – Calculation of similarity measures across each documents : genism.similarities – Topic Modeling – What is topic modeling (with

On March 20, 2019, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, welcomed a visit of Prof. Dr. Miki Saijo and Asst. Prof. Dr. Takumi Ohashi from the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Prof. Saijo introduced the Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics (TAC-MI), a Tokyo Tech’s new cross-disciplinary educational program focused on materials and devices, and information technology, to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Supot Teachavorasinskun (Dean of Chula Engineering), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tawatchai Charinpanitkul (Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs), and Dr. Natt Leelawat (Lecturer of Department of Industrial Engineering). Then, Asst. Prof. Ohashi presented about the Research Center for the Earth Inclusive Sensing Empathizing with Silent Voices (EISESiV) and their current research project. The possibilities of the internship program, exchange program, and research and curriculum collaboration have been discussed. Then, Prof. Saijo and Asst. Prof. Ohashi visited the Department of Industrial Engineering to have a meeting with Assoc. Prof. Paveena Chaovalitwongse (Department Head). Before leaving, the two professors also visited and had a short meeting with Master’s students at the Disaster and Risk Management Information Systems (DRMIS) Laboratory, Chulalongkorn University.    

On March 6, 2019, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, welcomed Prof. Dr. Adedeji B. Badiru, Dean of Graduate School of Engineering and Management, The Air Force Institute of Technology, USA, and his wife. During their visit, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Paveena Chaovalitwongse (Department Head), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wipawee Tharmmaphornphilas, Asst. Prof. Poom Luangjamekorn, Asst. Prof. Surapong Sirikulvadhana, Dr. Amonsiri Vilasdaechamont, and Dr. Natt Leelawat from the Department of Industrial Engineering; and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chuvej Chansa-ngavej (Deputy Director of the Regional Centre for Manufacturing Systems Engineering (RCMSE) , Chulalongkorn University) joined the meeting and discussion on curriculum and research between the two universities. After that, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chuvej Chansa-ngavej introduced the RCMSE to the visitors. Then, Dr. Natt Leelawat (Head of the Disaster and Risk Management Information Systems Research Group, Chulalongkorn University) introduced the DRMIS Lab to the visitors.

The Chulalongkorn University and the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) have signed a Centre of Excellence agreement today, which will support the development of road infrastructure safety in Thailand as well as internationally.  Speaking from the Safety 2018 Conference in Bangkok, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Associate Professor Kasem Choocharukul said we are delighted to join with iRAP’s nine Centres of Excellence world-wide to provide road infrastructure safety technical leadership. “As a Centre of Excellence, Chulalongkorn University will focus on building local capacity for high quality risk mapping, star rating and safer road investment planning assessments across Thailand.  We will also work in partnership with the Ministry of Transport, Department of Highways, Department of Rural Roads, Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, the University and other key stakeholders to build a locally led ThaiRAP programme that will save lives and serious injuries across the country”. “This partnership with iRAP will build on our Road Assessment Programme experience made possible through the Bloomberg Philanthropies supported BIGRS partnership with the World Bank-GRSF and iRAP.  The links with iRAP’s partner network across more than 90 countries worldwide will ensure we can accelerate progress toward the achievement of the UN

Chevening is the UK government’s international awards scheme aimed at developing global leaders. Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations.  There are around 30 Scholarships available and this year the Embassy is delighted that King Power Duty Free Co., Ltd is joining  as a local Chevening partner and will sponsor one of 2016/2017 Chevening Scholarships. This year, they will looking for applicants who wishing to study courses in these priority areas: – Democracy, governance and human rights – Conflict issues – Human trafficking and migration – Climate change and energy – Trade and investment and economic governance Interested applicants can register their interest and sign up to receive alerts about the application dates, candidate guidance, and priority subject areas for Chevening Scholarships via the central website atwww.chevening.org Chevening workshop The workshop to be held at a hotel on 17 September 2015, for more information of place and time of workshop, interested person must write an e-mail to cheveningbangkok@gmail.com Deadline:  Can apply from now until 3 November 2015 August 10, 2015 Written by pr    

International School of Engineering (ISE), Chulalongkorn University organised “ISE Chula Open House 2014” on November 9, 2014, at Faculty of Engineering. The objective of this event was to update the visitors with information about ISE Admission eligibility criteria for academic year 2015, courses taught in ISE, exchange program, achievement of our students and our successful alumni. The event was organised into various sessions which included ISE introduction, ISE experience sharing by its alumni, current students and exchange students, student life in ISE, workshops and many more. ISE offer 4 programs: Aerospace Engineering (AERO), Automotive Design and Manufacturing Engineering (ADME), Information and Communication Engineering (ICE) and Nano Engineering (NANO). Students also displayed and discussed about their learning and recent acheivements in ISE.For example, students from ISE-ADME recently designed electrical formula car which is the first electrical car in Thailand. AERO students displayed about Design, Build & Fly club where the students design and build aircrafts and match it with all the technical requirements so that it can fly high. In 2014, ISE students secured 12th rank out of 80 universities in the AIAA competition held in United States. The ICE students created CU POP BUS application which help Chula students to

February 20, 2014 Written by pr   On February 19, 2014, Chula Engineering led by Assistant Prof. Dr. Manoj Lohatepanont, Assistant Prof. Dr. Supavadee Aramvith, Assistant Prof. Dr. Thanarat Chalidabhongse, Dr. Peerapon Vateekul and Dr. Pongphaeth Pengvanich welcomed the delegations from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan at Meeting room SRJ 1, 9:00 am, Building 3, Chula Engineering. The purpose of visiting was to meet and discuss on academic on collaboration.

February 13, 2014 Written by pr   On January 22, 2013, Chula Engineering led by Dr. Pongphaeth Pengvanich and Assistant Prof. Dr. Withit Pansuk welcomed the delegations from Kochi University of Technology, Japan at Meeting Room 116/3, 10:00 am, building 3, Chula Engineering. The purpose of visiting was to meet and discuss on academic on collaboration.

November 29, 2013 Written by pr The 6th ASEAN Civil Engineering Conference (ACEC) and the 6th ASEAN Environmental Engineering Conference (AEEC) were jointly organized under the theme “Civil and Environmental Engineering for ASEAN Community Development” from November 21-22, 2013 at Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. More than 100 participants from Member Institutions (MIs), Japanese Supporting Universities (JSUs), government agency, the industry sector and AUN/SEED-Net current students and alumni attended the conference. Prof. Bundhit Eua-Arporn, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Mr. IKEDA Shuichi, Chief Representative of JICA Thailand Office, and Mr. KONISHI Nobuyuki, Deputy Chief Advisor, JICA Project for AUN/SEED-Net, delivered inaugural addresses while keynote lectures were given to the keen audience by Prof. Ekasit Limsuwan, Former Board Member of Council of Engineers (COE), Thailand, Prof. UEDA Tamon, Division of Engineering and Policy for Sustainable Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Mr. Bodin Udol, Managing director, Utility Business Alliance Co., Ltd. (UBA) and Prof. FUJII Shigeo, Dean, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. With the objective to strengthen research collaboration among regional academic institutions and the industries in civil and environmental engineering, the conference program included sharing of new innovations and recent research findings with presentations by distinguished professors from

December 6, 2013 Written by international.a…   On November 26, 2013, Chula Engineering led by Assistant Prof. Dr. Manoj Lohatepanont,  Associate dean, Associate Prof. Dr. Deacha Chatsiriwech, Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Boonchuay Supmonchai, Department of Electrical Engineering and Dr. Pongphaeth Pengvanich, Assistant dean for International Affairs welcomed the delegations from German Institute of Science and Technology – TUM Asia. The purpose of visiting was to discuss on academic on collaboration and announced the scholarship.