On September 12, 2016, a delegation of government officials from the Vinh Phuc Province in Vietnam came to visit ASU in follow up to an MOU that was signed between the province and ASU in 2013. Since the signing of the MOU, new government officials had been elected and were delighted to discover that ASU has a very active presence in Vietnam, including a satellite office in Ho Chi Minh City.
HEEAP trained 24 professors this year in its 2016 Vocational Cohort. Each year the cohort brings Vietnamese college faculty to ASU for four weeks where they attend sessions and workshops led by ASU faculty and experts from industry. With the support of Intel and other industry leaders the program teaches the professors how to collaborate with U.S.
This summer more than a hundred students and faculty participated in the first annual Mini Car Racing Contest at Cao Thang Technical College (CTTC) in Ho Chi Minh City. Twenty two student teams built cars to run in the races — all vying for the first place prize of 5,000,000 VND. After an intense qualifying round, the 12 best teams advanced to the finals where the top four teams each took home a cash prize.
A leadership conference and exhibition at the University of Danang drew several hundred attendees from across Southeast Asia as the first event in the Women in STEM Leadership Program — part of the Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology Alliance. BUILD-IT, which was announced by President Barack Obama during his trip to Vietnam in June, is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
A project to inspire innovative technology solutions to some of Southeast Asia’s most complex agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries challenges, the YSEALI World of Food Innovation Challenge, was announced in February by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI).
By Eddie Keller | Cronkite News
Friday, May 27, 2016
TEMPE – More than 20 engineering professors from Vietnam are putting together an apple, mirrors, lenses and papers that they can use to project a hologram.
Twenty minutes later, they are laughing and humbled, most of them unable to create something that works. Lesson learned.
During the month of July, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) hosted their annual training conference for personnel in Da Nang. This conference aimed to provide 200 MoIT employees and representatives from 49 universities and colleges with the most up-to-date information about ongoing and future projects.
Luu Hoang Hai, a student of Ha Noi University of Science and Technology (HUST), recently attended NIweek 2015 — a conference hosted by National Instrument from August 3-6 in Austin, Texas.
NIweek 2015 made Hai more interested in learning about new technologies and what they can do, exploring a future with IoT, and becoming aware of new products from many developers across the world.
