Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai
Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai | |
|---|---|
| 1st Executive Director of the Chulalongkorn School of Integrated Innovation | |
| Assumed office 2020 | |
| 7th President of Asian Institute of Technology | |
| In office 2014 – September 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Said Irandoust |
| Succeeded by | Eden Woon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 February 1948 |
| Education | Chulalongkorn University (BEng) Asian Institute of Technology (MEng) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai is a Thai structural engineer, university administrator and Professor Emeritus at the Asian Institute of Technology. He served as Founding Executive Director of the Chulalongkorn School of Integrated Innovation at Chulalongkorn University,[1] and President of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) from 2014 to 2018,[2][3] becoming the first Thai national and alumnus to become AIT's president.[4]
Professor Worsak was inducted into the Royal Society of Thailand’s Academy of Science in 2016, the AIT Hall of Fame in 2019 and Chulalongkorn Engineers Hall of Fame in 2022. He is a Royal Scholar of the Royal Society of Thailand.[5]
Selected publications
[edit]- A simple and efficient finite element for plate bending International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (1977)[6]
- A finite element method for a class of contact-impact problems Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering (1976)[7]
- Book: An Introduction to Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis published by CRC Press (2024)[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Executive Director". scii.chula.ac.th. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ^ "Prof Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai is new AIT President - Asian Institute of Technology". Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ^ Kanok-Nukulchai, Worsak (12 June 2020). "How engineering can adapt to the 'new normal'". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ^ Bohwongprasert, Yvonne (3 September 2014). "Something for everyone". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ^ Kanok-Nukulchai, Worsak (18 April 2020). "Taking the fight to Covid-19 using simple mathematics". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ^ Hughes, Thomas J. R.; Taylor, Robert L.; Kanoknukulchai, Worsak (1977). "A simple and efficient finite element for plate bending". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 11 (10): 1529–1543. Bibcode:1977IJNME..11.1529H. doi:10.1002/nme.1620111005. ISSN 0029-5981.
- ^ Hughes, Thomas J. R.; Taylor, Robert L.; Sackman, Jerome L.; Curnier, Alain; Kanoknukulchai, Worsak (1976-07-01). "A finite element method for a class of contact-impact problems". Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 8 (3): 249–276. Bibcode:1976CMAME...8..249H. doi:10.1016/0045-7825(76)90018-9. ISSN 0045-7825.
- ^ Tahir, Muhammad Akram (2024). An Introduction to Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai (1st ed.). Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-032-53202-8.