King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL or KMIT Ladkrabang for short) is a research and educational institution in Thailand. It is situated in Lat Krabang District, Bangkok approximately 30 km east of the city center. The university consists of nine faculties: engineering, architecture, science, industrial education and technology, agricultural technology, information technology, food industry, liberal arts, and medicine.
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
สถาบันเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าเจ้าคุณทหารลาดกระบัง
Motto
"Education and research on science and technology form the basis of national development" ("การศึกษาวิจัยด้านวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีเป็นรากฐานของการพัฒนาประเทศ")
KMITL was founded in 1960 in Nonthaburi province as a telecommunications training center under the technical support of the Japanesegovernment; the center was later named the Nonthaburi Institute of Telecommunications. After moving to a new location at Lat Krabang near Suvarnabhumi Airport, the campus became King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang.
Engineering began at KMITL in 1960 with a course on telecommunications engineering.
Since a technical cooperation agreement (August 1960-August 1965) was reached between the Japanese and Thai governments in 1960 to establish a telecommunications training center in Thailand, Japan has continued the cooperation over the course of 40 years. The telecommunications training center became a three-year specialty college in 1964, and then in 1971 joined two other colleges and rose to the ranks of an institute of technology. Part of the school moved to the Ladkrabang campus, and architecture, industrial education/science, and agricultural technology departments were established.
On the Japanese side, Tokai University (1977), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1992) and University of Electro-Communications (1997) concluded academic exchange agreements with the school and assisted with such things as the expansion of the university, human resource development and research promotion as part of second phase (December 1978-August 1983) and third phase (April 1988-March 1993) “Project-type Technical Cooperation” projects. A Japanese corporation funded scholarship system was established (1971), as well as practical factory-based training (1977), a construction scholarship system (1989), etc. Thus, actual cooperation activities involving linkages with industry as well as things like the start of an invitation program to the Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy and a human resource exchange with a public institution were promoted.
Through the “Partners Project” (1992), using a satellite launched by Japan, there were joint experiments in applied technology (areas such as distance medicine, distance education, computer networking, satellite broadcast, and joint development of a human resource training system using distance education, as well as the implementation of a continuation project called the “Post-Partners Project” (1996).
Besides this, as using the developed skills and facilities for the benefit of other developing countries, JICA has been active in supporting KMITL in organizing “third-country training” in information technology (started in 1978; presently known as the Japan-Thai Partnership Program, JTTP; having completed 11 programs with 13 courses established), dispatched KMITL professors to the engineering department of National University of Laos and supported KMITL’s acceptance of research students from universities in Laos.
At present, KMITL has been recognized as one of the science and technology universities in Thailand. This could be because of Japan’s long-term and ongoing assistance; comprehensive assistance to the university, industry and each level of government; the significant influence of early graduates of study abroad programs in Japan. In the future, one can expect continued development through KMITL’s participation in the Southeast Asia Engineering Education Network (SEED-NET) and strengthening of links with other higher education institutions.[citation needed]
In 2017, Carnegie Mellon University set up a joint institute with KMITL with the support of the Office of the Higher Education Commission. This was named CMKL University and first opened for student admissions in the 2018 academic year.[1]
Faculties and departmentsedit
KMITL Business School (KBS)
International Programs
Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Business Administration
Master of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration
Innovation & Technological Marketing
Global Business & Financial Management
Digital Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Bachelor of Business Administration in Global Entrepreneurship
Thai-language Programs
Master of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration
Innovative Industrial Management
Management and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics and Management
Research Center for Communication and Information Technology (ReCCIT)edit
The KMITL Research Center for Communication and Information Technology (ReCCIT) project is the fourth “project-type technical cooperation” project implemented at KMITL and has as its goals strengthening the center’s research and development capacity and the graduate school program.
establishment of an information technology research center
strengthening of graduate school programs in the field of information technology at the Center and other research labs that are the targets of the cooperation.
Through these research facilities, KMITL maintains creative partnerships with government and private industry.
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Data Storage Technology and Applicationsedit
The I/UCRC in Data Storage Technology and Applications or iDSTA is formed under partnership between KMITL and NECTEC under the Thailand's Hard Disk Drive Competitiveness Enhancement Program. The aim is to increase research and development activities in this area and to enhance cooperation among researchers and between the researchers and the HDD industry in Thailand.
Advanced Research Center for Photonics
Nanotechnology Research Center (in co-operation with NANOTECH of NSTDA)
Business Incubator Center
Electronics Research Center
Computer Research and Service Center
Electrical and Electronic Products Testing Center (PTEC) established under the co-operation of NSTDA and KMITL
Engineering Service and Development Center
Scientific Instruments Service Centre (SISC)
Engineering Research Park
Campusesedit
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Prince of Chumphon Campus
Notable faculty and alumniedit
Pakorn Peetathawatchai - President, The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Sumeth Damrongchaitham - CEO and President, Thai Airways
Punya Thitimajshima, co-inventor of Turbo code, Shannon limit-approaching code and the recipient of the 1998 IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award and Former Professor of Telecommunication Engineering, KMITL
Saravoot Yoovidhya, youngest son of tycoon Chaleo Yoovidhya and Managing Director of The Red Bull Beverage Co., Ltd.
Suchatvee Suwansawat, MIT Alumni; dean of KMITL Engineering and Professor, Chairman of the Board, National Housing Authority; president of Engineering Institute of Thailand, KMITL President
Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse, Professor of Industrial Engineering, 21st Century Leadership Chair in Engineering, and Co-Director of the Institute of Advanced Data Analytics., The University of Arkansas, USA
Agachai Sumalee, APEC Science Prize winner, professor of Civil and Transportation Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Thanwa Laohasiriwong, former IBM Country General Manager
Vatsun Thirapatarapong, managing director for Cisco (Thailand)
Chaiwat Kovavisarach, CEO, Bangchak Petroleum Public Company
Pitipan Tepartimargorn, COO and senior executive vice president at PTT Public Co. Ltd
Bundit Sapienchai, senior executive vice president at Bangchak Petroleum Public Co., Ltd
Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, NASA scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dusit Niyato, Professor of Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) and School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS) at the Nanyang Technological University and a Fellow of IEEE.
Somsak Thepsutin, former vice leader of the Thai Rak Thai Party and former deputy prime minister, former Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, and former Minister of Industry
Srimuang Charoensiri, former Minister of Education and senator
Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom - IEEE Fellow, Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Former President of Mahanakorn University of Technology, former Professor of Electronics Engineering and former Dean of the School of Engineering and of Graduate Studies
Jareerat Petsom - Environmental advocate, host, director, scriptwriter and beauty pageant titleholder won Miss Earth Thailand 2021 and Miss Earth - Fire 2021