Research Program for Alumni Members 2010

August 13, 2010

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Research Program for Alumni Members 2010, 2nd Batch, ASEAN University Network / Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network

Increasing number of AUN/SEED-Net master’s and doctoral graduates or alumni returns to home country and becomes teaching staff at Member Institutions. Due to the significant demand of lecturers in higher education in several Member Countries, the alumni members are taking a loaded teaching duty in their Institution. Being educators of young generation of students, it is thus indispensable for them to keep their knowledge updated, expanded and deepened in order to maintain high teaching standard and produce high-quality engineers who will eventually contribute to the development of the countries and the region. Doing research is one of the means to improve their capacity. Research Program for Alumni Members is then initiated to fulfill the alumni’s capacity enhancement and alumni network.

The program aims to support the alumni members to further doing their research in the home country, preferably in relation to their Collaborative Research (CR) topics done during master’s/ doctoral study. Through the implementation of this program, research capacity of the alumni and of the Member Institution(s) would be improved and the scope of CR could be expanded from Host Institution(s) to Sending Institution(s) in a more integrating manner. Also, the network of engineering academicians, including advisors and lecturers at Host Institutions and AUN/SEED-Net scholars at different Member Institutions, developed during their graduate studies could be strengthened.

Participating alumni must submit an application form and a research proposal, including a research plan, to AUN/SEED-Net and only 20 alumni with outstanding proposals per year will be selected and granted with the research fund. Outputs of the research must be presented at AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference/Workshop in the related engineering field.

The concept structure of AUN/SEED-Net Project activities

Objectives

(1) To encourage research continuation of AUN/SEED-Net graduates after they returned home country.

(2) To enhance educational and research capacity of AUN/SEED-Net graduates and Member Institutions.

(3) To boost research collaboration in the nine engineering fields and/or five interdisciplinary research areas among all Member Institutions.

(4) To sustain the network among Member Institutions.

3. Eligible Applicants

(1) AUN/SEED-Net master’s/doctoral graduates* who are faculty staff or research staff working at Member Institutions and not pursuing any degree at the time of application.

(2) Graduates in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam have higher priority.

* Graduates mean scholars who have already completed the study and graduation requirements by the time of application submission.

4. Coverage and Expectation of the Program

(1) The Program provides research fund of 2,000 USD/ grant to 20 selected alumni.

(2) The research output should be reported to the Secretariat and presented at AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference/Workshop in the related engineering field.

5. Target Number for the 2nd Batch

Up to 8 grants

6. Application

Applicants are required to submit application form endorsed by Dean/Head of Department of their working institution.

In case the proposed research relates to Collaborative Research (CR), a letter or e-mail of acknowledgement from the concerned principal investigator should be submitted together with the application form.

For Application form:

Application deadline

Application form, either hard or soft copy (in PDF or JPEG format), together with supporting documents should be submitted to the AUN/SEED-Net Project by 31 August 2010.

Further fellowship details:

Scholarship Tags: Alumni, Cambodia, Graduates, Laos, Members, Myanmar, Program, research, Vietnam