King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang
| สถาบันเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าเจ้าคุณทหารลาดกระบัง | |
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| Motto | "Education and research on science and technology form the basis of national development" ("การศึกษาวิจัยด้านวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีเป็นรากฐานของการพัฒนาประเทศ") |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1960 |
| President | Suchatvee Suwansawat |
| Undergraduates | 5500 |
| Postgraduates | 2,000-3,000 |
| Location | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors |
Orange White |
| Affiliations | ASAIHL |
| Website | www.kmitl.ac.th/ |
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL or KMIT Ladkrabang for short) is a research and educational institution in Thailand. It is in the city of Bangkok, Thailand. It is in Lat Krabang District (approximately 30 km east of the center of Bangkok) and has seven faculties: engineering, architecture, agricultural technology, science, industrial education, agricultural industry, and information technology.
KMITL was founded in 1960 in Nonthaburi province as a telecommunications training center under the technical support of the Japanese government; the center was later named the Nonthaburi Institute of Telecommunications. After moving to a new location at Lat Krabang near Suvarnabhumi Airport, the campus became King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang.
Engineering began at KMITL in 1960 with a course on telecommunications engineering.
Since a technical cooperation agreement (August 1960-August 1965) was reached between the Japanese and Thai governments in 1960 to establish a telecommunications training center in Thailand, Japan has continued the cooperation over the course of 40 years. The telecommunications training center became a three-year specialty college in 1964, and then in 1971 joined two other colleges and rose to the ranks of an institute of technology. Part of the school moved to the Ladkrabang campus, and architecture, industrial education/science, and agricultural technology departments were established.
On the Japanese side, Tokai University (1977), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1992) and University of Electro-Communications (1997) concluded academic exchange agreements with the school and assisted with such things as the expansion of the university, human resource development and research promotion as part of second phase (December 1978-August 1983) and third phase (April 1988-March 1993) “Project-type Technical Cooperation” projects. A Japanese corporation funded scholarship system was established (1971), as well as practical factory-based training (1977), a construction scholarship system (1989), etc. Thus, actual cooperation activities involving linkages with industry as well as things like the start of an invitation program to the Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy and a human resource exchange with a public institution were promoted.
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