For the past 2 decades, Suranaree University has been the proprietor of innovations, the leader in and the role model for many educational innovations, for instance, being the first autonomous public university of Thailand run by its own administrative mechanism; its man-agement of human resources, finance and assets, academics and others; centralized services and coordinated missions innovation for the optimal conjoint resource utilization; cooperative education innovation, whereby Suranaree University of Technology was the first university in Thailand to initiate cooperative education, and for which it has bccn

Suranaree University of Technology is Thailand's first autonomous public university, a national research university, a university specializing in science and technology that has gained its experience from past to present, through self-refinement. It has, there-fore, progressed into being the nation's leading university that maintains its identity in fostering science and technology graduates, whose knowledge, virtues and wisdoms are applicable for the development of the society, and as a result, turning it into the uni-versity with sustainable happiness in the fields of sciences, engineering, agricultural technolog, information technology, management technology, public health, medicine and nursing. The goal is to respond to the national development course, with the strong aspiration to be the university of innovation that is also the companion to the society.