On December 18, 2020, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University led by ProfessorSupot Techavorasinskul, D.Eng., Dean of Engineering, along with the executive members and personnel of the Faculty of Engineering have carried out an on-site community development activitiy “Firebreak Construction” at Huay Ka forest area, Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center, Mae Pong, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai Province. Prior to the start of the activity, there was a lecture on the problem of forest fire prevention and suppression by Mr. Anusorn Towan, senior lecturer of Huai Hong Khrai-Khun Mae Kuang Forest Fire Control Station and there was a welcome speech by Mr. Anon Kulnil, head of Huai Hong Khrai – Khun Mae Kuang Forest Fire Control Station, Conservation Management Bureau No.16 (Chiang Mai). After the lecture session, Faculty’s executive members and personnel constructed a firebreak to slow or stop the progress of a wildfire in the future, together with the staff of the forest fire control station who provide advice throughout the activities.

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On December 18, 2020 at Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai Province – Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University in collaboration with the Huai Hong Krai Royal Development Study Center had an opening ceremony of the Chula Engineering Journey Project | Learn Do Share for the fiscal year 2021. Professor Supot Techavorasinskul, D.Eng., Dean of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University presided over the inauguration of the project and Mr. Jirachat Suetrakul, Sheriff of Doi Saket District, attended the event. After that, the executive members and personnel of the Faculty of Engineering received lectures and participated in a site visit under the topic “Three Afforestation, Four Benefits” presented by Mr. Rapeepon Tubtimthong, senior lecturer at the Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center in order to explore how local people use and conserve abundant forest resources. In addition, the Faculty members also attended a workshop under the topic “Local Herbs and Vegetables Processing (Chiang Da vegetable)” presented by Ms. Ubonwan Sunanthasilp, lecturer at Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center.

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On December 15, 2020, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University led by Professor Supot Techavorasinskul, D.Eng., Dean of Engineering, along with the executive members and personnel of the Faculty of Engineering have delivered donations such as clothing, winter wear, school supplies, medicines and medical supplies, etc. to assist those in need in the rural areas. In this regard, Faculty of Engineering cooperated with the other 2 local donation projects which are the Sharing Kindness to the Mountains project and the donation project to help the children of the mountains to be the medium of forwarding these items to the communities living in rural areas on the mountains in Chiang Mai.

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The One Day Tour | Learn Day Share held by Office of International Affairs, Faculty of Engineering, on November 14, 2020, was the event that aimed to cultivate public consciousness and develop understanding about sustainable living. There were altogether 25 international students and Thai students and staffs who joined this event.

The three activities of this event took place at Bangnamphueng Homestay, a community enterprise which hold on to the idea of sufficiency economy from King Rama IX. The first activity was the making of tie dye tote bag from natural color. This dye color is extracted from the coat of Nipa palm fruit which commonly grow around this area. People in Bangnamphueng community try to make use of Nipa palm by using the fruits to cook food, the leaves to create container, and the fruit coats to make dye color. The second activity was the cooking of Khanom Thuai, an easy cooking Thai dessert. This dessert requires a few ingredients and the recipe is simple enough for everyone to cook at home by themselves. The last activity of this event was a water treatment to improve the community area by using EM made from organic waste within the community.

On August 4, 2020, Chula Engineering together with Huawei Technology (Thailand) Co., Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding on research support and development of engineering innovation through 5G, AI, and Cloud technology. This collaboration aims to support research activities and develop engineering innovation of Chula Engineering which drives Thailand forward to digital transformation. Since Chula Engineering has been conducting R&D programs on the robotic system, automatic control system, and virtual reality system, through this five-year MOU, the integrated technology of 5G, Cloud, and AI from Huawei will help strengthen the potential and efficiency of engineering inventions to have a better remote control system and processor. Over the past year, Chula Engineering and Huawei Technology (Thailand) Co., Ltd. have been working together to exchange technological knowledge through seminars and workshops led by world-class technology and solutions experts who share their experience and expertise exclusively with faculty members, students as well as researchers.

Faculty members from Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, including Assistant Professor Dr. Chatpan Chintanapakdee (Department of Civil Engineering, and Director of Risk and Disaster Management Program), Dr. Natt Leelawat (Department of Industrial Engineering and Head of Disaster and Risk Management Information Systems Research Group), and Dr. Jing Tang (International School of Engineering) were invited by Director of the United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (UN-APCICT/ESCAP) as the experts in the field to participate in the Expert Group Meeting on ICT for Disaster Risk Management, as part of the ESCAP’s Disaster Resilience Week at the United Nations Conference Centre Bangkok during August 26-27, 2019.

Dr. Natt (left) and Asst. Prof. Dr. Chatpan (right) were invited to participate in the Expert Group Meeting

Dr. Natt Leelawat was invited as the representative of Thailand to give a presentation in the Session 6: National experiences on ICT for DRM and sharing best practices. He gave a talk on “ICT4DRM: Experience from Thailand”. He summarized the ICT experience from the academic institute perspective including the related course, “Disaster Management and Technology” of Department of Industrial Engineering, Chulalongkorn University; researches of the Disaster and Risk Management Information Systems Research Group (DRMIS) of Chula Engineering; the Risk and Disaster Management Program of Graduate School; SATREPS Project-Regional Resilience Enhancement through Establishment of Area-BCM at Industry Complexes in Thailand; and other related studies.

Dr. Natt gave a talk

There were many participants from many national government officers, international organizations, and academic institutes from various countries participated in the meeting.

During June 5-11, 2019, four Chula Engineering faculty members, including Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anat Ruangrassamee (Department of Civil Engineering), Asst. Prof. Dr. Chatpan Chintanapakdee (Department of Civil Engineering), Dr. Piyatida Ruangrassamee (Department of Water Resources Engineering), and Dr. Natt Leelawat (Department of Industrial Engineering), gave lectures in the Risk and Disaster Management Program of Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University’s co-organized workshop, “the 2nd PREEMPTIVE Advanced Studies Institute: Thailand”. It is the series of the multidisciplinary workshop supported by the US National Science Foundation.

The theme of the workshop was about tsunami disaster. The participants are the graduate and undergraduate students from USA and Thailand, including Chulalongkorn University, Kasem Bundit University, The University of Connecticut, Southern California University, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Howard University, University of Rhode Island, etc.

The first day of the event was done at Kasem Bundit University, Bangkok. Four faculty members of Chula Engineering gave lectures on the Day1.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Chatpan Chintanapakdee gave a lecture on “Earthquake Disaster and Preparedness in Thailand.” Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anat Ruangrassamee gave a lecture on “Tsunami Disaster and Mitigation.” Dr. Natt Leelawat presented “Disaster Management.” Lastly, Dr. Piyatida Ruangrassamee presented “Flood and Water Security.”

The goal of this workshop is to practice preparing the research proposal between Thai and US students. The participants also went to Phuket to visit the real sites in order to observe the current situation. They visited the sites such as Tsunami Memorial Monument, Evacuation Shelter, T. 813 Monument, and Tsunami Memorial Museum at Phang Nha Province.

The group then came back to Bangkok and continued their discussion using the iScale Classroom at Chula Engineering to do group brainstorm and propose new tsunami risk reduction project to the faculty members from Thailand and the USA.

It has been a great work and experience from both Thailand and the USA to apply different background and knowledge and came out with a new idea.

The Project on Regional Resilience Enhancement through Establishment of Area-BCM at Industry Complexes in Thailand

Photo: JCC members and participants

On May 31, 2019, at 13:00, the SATREP’s the Project on Regional Resilience Enhancement through Establishment of Area-BCM at Industry Complexes in Thailand organized the second Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) meeting at Mandarin C Meeting Room, Mandarin Hotel Bangkok. There were representatives from the related organizations including the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan Science and Technology (JST), Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT), International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), and Keio University from Japan; Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), Department of Industrial Works (DIW), Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning Rojana Industrial Park, Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand), Royal Irrigation Department (RID), Thai Meteorological Department (TMD), Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA), Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), National Statistical Office (NSO), Hydro Informatics Institute (HII), Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Ayutthaya Rajabhat University, etc.; as well as faculties and institutes of Chulalongkorn University including Faculty of Engineering, College of Populations Studies, Transportation Institute, Faculty of Architecture, and the Risk and Disaster Management Program of Graduate School.

Dr. Natt Leelawat from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering; and the Risk and Disaster Management Program, was a Master of Ceremony of the meeting. The meeting was started with an opening remark by Prof. Dr. Kiat Ruxrungtham (Vice President for Research and Innovation of Chulalongkorn University). After that, Mr. Takeuchi Kazuo (Senior Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency: JICA) also gave an opening remark.

Then, Asst. Prof. Dr. Ruttiya Bhula-Or (College of Population Studies), as a Project Manager and Technical Coordinator, reported the implementation structure to the participants.

The next session started with the overall summary of the project by Prof. Watanabe Kenji. And it was followed by each item’s progress report. Dr. Nakasu Tadashi (College of Population Studies) presented the progress report of Item 0 (Community Survey). Asst. Prof. Dr. Anurak Sriariyawat (Faculty of Engineering) and Dr. Miyamoto Mamoru (ICHARM) presented the progress report of Item 1 (Hazard Analysis).

After the coffee break, Dr. Kamimera Hideyuki (NIED) and Ms. Tobishima Yoriko (Nagoya Institute of Technology) presented the progress report of Item 2 (Business Impact Analysis), And lastly, Asst. Prof. Dr. Kodaka Akira and Dr. Natt Leelawat presented the progress report of Item 3 (Area-BCM).

Then, Dr. Natt Leelawat, as a Project Manager, introduced the Disaster and Risk Management Information Systems (DRMIS) Research Group as an input summary from Thai side while Assoc. Prof. Ino Eri presented the input summary and plan from Japanese side.

The Q&A and suggestion session was opened to all participants. There were many participants asked many question and provided many good suggestions. This session was run using both Thai and English languages.

After that, Mr. Miura Yoshiaki, JICA Project Coordinator, mentioned the draft minutes of meetings. There were many fruitful discussion and comments along the meeting. Finally, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vipan Prachuabmoh (Dean of College of Population Studies) gave a closing remark to close the 2nd JCC meeting.

The meeting was successful. The JCC members are looking forward to the involvement of all participated organizations.

(Written by Dr. Natt Leelawat)

Contact:
Dr. Tadashi Nakasu
College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Email: tadashi.nakasu@gmail.com

Assistant Professor Dr. Ruttiya Bhula-Or
College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Email: ruttiya.b@chula.ac.th

Dr. Natt Leelawat
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University,
Email: natt.l@chula.ac.th

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 some examples)
1. Understanding the concept: LDA
– Gensim module in Python Topic modeling works for the following three technologies, comparison with JPO classification
1. Artificial intelligence
2. Autonomous driving
3. Gene modification technology
– Good reference about topic modeling by genism https://www.machinelearningplus.com/nlp/topic-modeling-gensim-python/
– Assignment for further works (three weeks program)

RSVP at https://forms.gle/mPYfDKYx8VmR8jQM8
Capacity: 20 seats
(Registration deadline: May 18, 2019)
Contact: Natt Leelawat, D.Eng. (natt.l@chula.ac.th)