Carnegie Mellon – CMKL | Thailand partners visited CMU Pittsburgh campus to foster collaboration

Carnegie Mellon – CMKL | Thailand hosted three of Thailand’s corporate leaders at CMU’s Pittsburgh campus on March 11-13, 2019. The visit was designed to foster collaboration between CMU and its new partners in Thailand.  

The visiting executives were: Vanus Taepaisitphongse, chair of executive board of Betagro Group; Woranun Woramontri, senior specialist–corporate strategy of Betagro Group; and Teerapan Luengnaruemitchai, vice president, Office of Information Technology at Thai Beverage PLC. They were accompanied by two members from Carnegie Mellon – CMKL | Thailand at CMKL University, CMU’s Thai partner: Orathai Sangpetch, vice president, and Akkarit Sangpetch, program director.

During their three-day visit, the visitors met: James Garrett, provost of CMU; Jonathan Cagan, interim dean of the College of Engineering; Larry Pileggi, department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and research faculty members from the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and the Robotics Institute. These sessions gave visitors a better understanding of innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration across the university and among our corporate partners around the world.