Areas of Specialization

Agricultural Systems

The Agricultural Systems specialization provides a holistic understanding of small holder agriculture, the type mostly found in Asia. It provides comprehensive understanding of physical and biological production factors from the perspective of the producers, including how economic and social forces affect farm enterprises. The key focus are on agricultural systems development; land and crop productivity management; soil and water management; crop eco-physiology; crop modeling; agricultural environments; promotion of technology transfer and farming systems. This specialization prepares the graduates for sustainable agricultural development and management.

Agricultural Engineering

Agricultural Engineering specialization places emphasis on the application of engineering principles to agriculture to increase the efficiency fo food production through effective use of inputs and management of natural resources. It provides a broad knowledge of farm machines; machinery & equipment design; selection and management; controlled environment agriculture; precision agriculture; terramechanics; soil & water engineering and instrumentation and measurement techniques. It prepares professionals to develop, adopts and disseminate knowledge and technologies that focus on the engineering and management of biological and agricultural resources.

Preferred background for master’s program:

Undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences, agricultural technology, agricultural or mechanical
engineering or related fields.

Preferred background for doctoral program:

Master’s degree in a relevant field and detailed dissertation research outline must be submitted with the application

Facilities & Activities

Research Farm: Provides facilities for dry and wetland agricultural research, machine performance evaluation, irrigation and drainage studies, development of integrated farming systems, IPM and greenhouse agriculture.

Agricultural Technology Laboratory: Equipped for the analysis of physical and chemical soil
properties and plant analysis.

Agricultural Watershed Systems Laboratory: Equipped for the analysis and evaluation of agricultural and watershed systems.

Agricultural Engineering Laboratories: Include fully instrumented soil-bins for studies in any soil
condition; transducers and processors for data acquisition systems to handle field and laboratory experiments related to machines, soil and tillage, ergonomics, precision agriculture, controlled environment agriculture and other studies.

Workshop: Equipped with lathes and other equipment to fabricate machines, models and experimental set-up for research studies.

RS/GIS/GPS Facility: Basic facilities to undertake GIS related research and handling larger projects with the assistance of AIT’s main GIS facility are available.
Computer Laboratory: Over 20 hihg-end PCs connected to the campus-wide Ethernet and ATM network to support students, faculty and staff in their computer-aided courses, training and research with hardware and software packages.

Lecture Theaters: Three fully equipped lecture theaters with audio visual facilities are available for lectures and presentations. Some sessions involving laboratory or field work are conducted in the laboratories.

Conferences, Seminars and Presentations: ASE has two well equipped conference ad presentation rooms. For larger gatherings, the facilities available at AIT Centre are used.

Outreach: ASE has many outreach activities and collaborations with industries, universities and institutions, locally and internationally.

For more information, contact;

THE COORDINATOR

Agricultural Systems and Engineering (ASE)
School of Environment Resources and Development
Asian Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang,
Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
Tel: +66 2 524 5450 ; 524 5488
Fax: +66 2 521 6200

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