Asian Institute of Technology - DANIDA - and DHI
AIT Purchases the Complete Suite of DHI Software
The Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok has decided to base their teaching and research within Water Engineering and Management on DHI Software. AIT and DHI have signed a Memo of Understanding (MoU) granting AIT full access to all DHI software in any number for teaching and research. The MoU is supported by MTERM a Danida (Danish International Development Assistance) sponsored project at AIT. MTERM focuses on the application of modelling tools for improvements in the air and water environments and hence aims at education of local experts for dealing with the dominant problems related to either having too much water or too little water in the SE Asian region.
The MoU is the very first of its kind in the world and it provides AIT with a unique possibility for a consolidation and an expansion of AIT's position as a center of excellence within modelling of water and environment in the Asian region. AIT is very well acquainted with DHI software as there has been a more than 20 year tradition for exchange of staff from DHI to AIT through Danida supported activities. At present, the staff within Water Engineering and Management at AIT includes a number of internationally highly recognized researchers from Australia, Denmark, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand. E.g. last year Prof. Das Gupta just got an award for paper of the year in "Journal of Computation in Civil Engineering, ACSE", 1999 and Prof. Suphat has just received the award "Distinguished Researcher of the Year 2000 in Engineering and Industrial Research" from the National Research Council of Thailand for research within modelling of water. So the DHI software will be a powerful tool in the hands of the experts to provide state-of-the-art knowledge and solutions to students and professional engineers addressing water and environmental problems in the SE Asian region.
Research projects have already been initiated at AIT and hence MOUSE, Mike Basin, MIKE 11 and MIKE 21 are already applied in the teaching and research projects, which e.g. cover the topics: Urban flooding in Dhaka; Automatic calibration within urban hydrology and Integrated Water Resources Management.
Mr. Linddahl (to the right) hands over the DHI software from Mr. Lars Michael (in the middle) to Prof. Ashim Das Gupta.