This paper presents a study on the strength and corrosion resistance of mortars made with binary blends of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and ground rice husk ash (RHA) or ground palm oil fuel ash (POA). The mortar mixtures were made with Portland cement Type I containing 0-40% RHA and POA. RHA and POA with 1-3% by weight retained on a sieve No.325 were used. The water to binder ratio was kept constant at 0.5 and the flow of mortar was maintained at 110±5% with the aid of superplasticizer (SP). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used for analysis. The compressive strength chloride penetration and corrosion resistance of the mortar were determined. The results show that strength as well as the resistance of mortar to chloride and corrosion can be improved by blending with RHA and POA. Thus RHA and POA have a high potential to be used as a good pozzolanic material.

This paper presented a study on the strength and chloride resistance of mortars made with ternary blends of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) ground palm oil fuel ash (POA) and classified fly ash (FA). The mortar mixtures were made with Portland cement type I containing 0-40wt% FA and POA. FA and POA with 1wt%-3wt% retained on a sieve No.325 were used. The compressive strength and rapid chloride penetration depth of mortars were determined. The results reveal that the use of ternary blended cements produces good strength mortars. The use of the blend of FA and POA also produces high strength mortars and excellent resistance to chloride penetration owing to the synergic effect of FA and POA. A mathematical analysis and two-parameter polynomial model were presented to predict the compressive strength. The mathematical model correlated well with the experimental results. The computer 3-D graphics of strength of the ternary blended mortars were also constructed and could be used to aid the understanding and the proportioning of the blended system.

Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon has gained support from the Commission on Higher Education to set up a business incubators unit called Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon - University Business Incubators or RMUTP-UBI. The agency has a principal missihon in creating new potential entrepreneurs by utilizing results of research works inventions innovations and technology of the university. The agency๛s main aim is to get income for oneself for the university and for the country as a whole; as well as to provide information service and consultation to users both inside and outside the university. In 2007 the RMUTP-UBI had incubated 10 entrepreneurs. Among these 2 were start-up companies 3 were incubatees and 5 were pre-incubatees. It also conducted public relations visiting tours trainings setting up activity groups of students and entrepreneurs and providing academic services to meet the goal of the project.

The purposes of this study were to compare the learning achievement retention and preference of students in teaching with games and the conventional teaching in reading the first-angle projection the third-angle projection isometric picture and auxiliary view according to the first-year diploma curriculum. Students were devided in to two groups: the experimental and the control group. The research instruments were the sets of games models transparencies achievement and retention test and the preference guestionnaires develop ped by the researcher The t-test was used to find the mean score difference. The findings were : 1) the learning achievement in learning with games was higher than that of the conventional teaching at .05 level of significance 2) the learning retention in teaching with games was higher than that of the traditional teaching at .05 3) the learning preference in teaching with games was higher than that of the conventional teaching at .05 level of significance.

This research aims to study the demand of the entrepreneurs under the Industrial Estate of Authority of Thailand (IEAT) on the competencies of those graduating in commercial major from vocational colleges and high vocational college. The sample are the 340 entrepreneurs under the IEAT. The tool is questionnaire the reliability are .89 and .92 for vocational and high vocational level respectively. The data are analyzed by mean and standard deviation statistics and it is found that: (1) The demand of the entrepreneurs on the competencies is at a high levels as overall and by level of education and demographic area and (2) The highest demand on the student’s competencies of the entrepreneurs is affective domain.