eXtensions - Friday 16 May 2025
By Graham K. Rogers
At the Mahidol Engineering Maker EXPO 2025, the Faculty of Engineering, exhibited the work of students presenting posters of their senior year projects. This annual event is a way to spread information about student abilities and successes. Visitors included experts from industry, and Alumni, as well as high school students considering engineering as a career.
Over the last 7 years, the Faculty of Engineering at Mahidol University has highlighted the work of its final year students at its annual Maker Expo. At this year's Mahidol Engineering Maker Expo, students from each of the 7 departments, produce posters, outlining their senior year capstone projects. With the various departments - Biomedical, Chemical, Civil & Environmental, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering - the range of project ideas is wide.
The event highlights the achievements of the fourth-year students. Instead of just presenting their work in the classroom, this event gives them a wider, more public forum that attended by industry experts, alumni, their own peers, and high school students who may be considering engineering as a career. It allows them to showcase their projects as a demonstration not only their technical expertise, but also their communication and soft skills - critical attributes for future engineers.
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It was encouraging to see several alumni attending the event, both as judges for the student presentations, as mentors, and as company representatives. For example, a Generation 8 student, Kiti Rivepiboon had brought a number of drones, including the just-released, DJI Mavic 4, which is not yet available in the USA.
As well as staff members patiently answering all the questions thrown at them, I also bumped into Biomedical Engineering alumni, Dr. Jetsada Aninv (Assistant to The President for Education), who persuaded me to take several portrait photographs. While walking round, I was able to speak to members of the faculty in attendance, as well as several students
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Other former students also came to chat, while the Thai Wah Company provided support by donating 6 boxes of Dragon Double Ready instant vermicelli for participants to enjoy at the event. That was 432 cups of fairly spicy noodles. There appeared to be fewer high school students this year, with the unusual, heavy rain an obvious cause. Some parts of Bangkok are already experiencing flooding.
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This year some 92 projects were presented on posters. From these, each department committee chose their best 2 groups. These 14 student groups, made brief presentations in the style of elevator pitches, to the audience and a committee of experts. The best groups were selected by the judges. There was also a prize given for a group chosen by public acclaim: audience participation. These presentations were made in 2 parts: before and after the lunch break; easing the load on all. A list of the prizewinners is shown on the Mahidol Engineering pages, in Thai and in English
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The Maker Expo provides a platform for students to present their ideas to industry experts, alumni, teachers, high school students, and other interested participants. Projects span all seven departments within the faculty: Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
Following the presentations, students from each department with the highest GPAs were presented with certificates. These students are to be congratulated for their abilities.
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As well as the expert selections, as I wandered round I noted a number of projects that piqued my interest:
The last in my list was one of a couple of projects on diabetes. I am tested for this regularly, so was interested to try out this test, particularly with the way the student was able to explain it to me so clearly. From her experience in learning about this as the project progressed, she was able to detect immediately from the magnified appearance of my capillaries, that I was in a good condition (with regard to diabetes). I should look further into this technique.
I took over 200 photographs at the event. Some I dumped immediately for technical reasons (bad photographer) and weeded several more out to bring the number down to a more manageable NNN. A few are in the text above, the rest of my selection is below.
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I have all of the original images, and several more from the event if needed.
Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs. After 3 years writing a column in the Life supplement, he is now no longer associated with the Bangkok Post. He can be followed on X (@extensions_th). The RSS feed for the articles is http://www.extensions.in.th/ext_link.xml - copy and paste into your feed reader.
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