South-East Asia centre for engineering and technology education (SEACETE): a UICEE satellite centre in South-East Asia

King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education (UICEE) has mutually established a partnership and a satellite centre within King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi to be known as the South-East Asia Centre for Engineering and Technology Education (SEACETE). Its main purpose was to establish and develop a South-east Asia satellite centre of the UICEE with its mission to provide the focus for the development of academic and research related activities in engineering and technology education within the sphere of the SEACETE and where appropriate and work together with the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education (UICEE) to further the globalisation of engineering and technology education through the satellite centre. This paper outlines the initial stages of development of the SEACETE in accordance with the guidelines provided in Memorandum of Agreement between the UICEE and the KMUTT signed on 13 March 2002.