From 5 to 7 September, 2024, Kasetsart University’s Department of Water Resources Engineering warmly welcomed a group of four students from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Kingdom of the Netherlands, to participate in the 7th Multidisciplinary Project (MDP) in the Khlong Suan Mak river basin, Kamphaeng Phet Province. The welcome ceremony and project meeting took place in the conference room of the Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.
The students conducted a research project on a near-real-time flood forecasting and soil erosion detection system based on radar rain data in the Klong Suan Mak River Basin. The field survey was overseen by Associate Professor Dr. Punpim Puttaruksa Mapiam, a faculty member from the Department of Water Resources Engineering, and Professor Dr. Thom Bogaard from TU Delft, with the objective of surveying the upstream area located in the Klong Wang Chao National Park, Klong Lan National Park and Mae Wong National Park in order to determine the locations for the installation of telemetry stations. An additional aim was to survey the area along the Klong Suan Mak River to conduct a study on the development of sediment measurement technology.
The Multidisciplinary Project (MDP) is a major collaboration between the Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, and the Department of Water Management, TU Delft. It focuses on integrated research between water resources engineering and related fields such as environmental engineering, civil engineering, coastal engineering, and materials engineering. This collaboration began in 2017 and has continued to the present, now in its 7th iteration.
The 7th MDP is focused on developing technology for the performance of measurements on sediment in rivers. It integrates water resources engineering and materials engineering, thus extending some of the collaboration to the Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University. Associate Professor Dr. Ratchatee Techapiesancharoenkij is the project supervisor. The project will run from September until November 2024, with support from the International Affairs Division of Kasetsart University, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Agricultural Research Development Agency (Public Organization).