There were a total of 436 disciplines from 36 Thai higher education institutions participating in this assessment. Four indicators with appropriate weighting were employed; i.e., the equivalent international journal publication per faculty member (30%), the journal impact factor per faculty member (20%), the equivalent international journal publication per discipline (30%), and the journal impact factor per discipline (20%).

For the discipline of electrical engineering, the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EE) in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Asian University obtained the maximum scores for the first two indicators with the TRF Index of 4.2 and the overall rating of 4 out of 5 scaling.

For this national academic research achievement, the TRF will provide a maximum of 50,000 baht research funding to support research activities in the EE department at Asian University.