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Faculty staff attended the WaSo Scientific Seminar at Ethiopia

Dr. S.S. Sivakumar, coordinator of WaSo project of UoJ and Mr. D.S. Sampath, Secretary of WaSo project attended WaSo scientific seminar at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia on 16th November 2017. Workshop hosted by Department of Political Science and International Relations, Addis Ababa University of Ethiopia.
Dr. Sivakumar delivered paper presentation on “Freshwater Harvesting in Northern Sri Lankan Lagoons by Continuous Flushing of Mainland Rivers.” Engineering science and Technology session. Prof. S. B. Weerakoon chaired the session.
Mr. Sampath delivered paper presentation on “Ancient hydraulic civilization at Deduru Oya river basin, Sri Lanka” at Social and Political Science Session. Prof. Kasuvan chaired the session.

Mr. Saliya Sampath is appointed as visiting lecture for the postgraduate program at the University of Peradeniya

Sampath was appointed as visiting lecturer during October – November 2017, for the Postgraduate program of Water and Environment of Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. Sampath did lecture to postgraduate students, those who were following the subject on Computer applications in water and environmental engineering. This includes lecture and laboratory classes.

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Faculty Staff attended the Dry Zone Agriculture Conference

Faculty staff participated to the 3rd international conference on dry zone agriculture, held on 1st and 2nd November 2017 at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna. Theme of the conference was “innovation towards sustainable agricultural productivity”. Conference was jointly organized by Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna and Ministry of Science, Technology and Research.
Faculty staff conduct research in collaboration with the staff from the Faculty of Agriculture. In this conference, Mr. Saliya Sampath and Dr. S.S. Sivakumar supervised one of the agricultural engineering student’s final year research together with the Agriculture staff Professor T. Mikunthan and Dr. M. Prabaharan. The student presented his research findings in the conference. The research was title on “Assessment of Rainfall stations for its suitability to represent Magalla reservoir catchment, Nikaweratiya”.

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Faculty Staff attended the Dry Zone Agriculture Conference

Faculty staff participated to the 3rd international conference on dry zone agriculture, held on 1st and 2nd November 2017 at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna. Theme of the conference was “innovation towards sustainable agricultural productivity”. Conference was jointly organized by Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna and Ministry of Science, Technology and Research.
Faculty staff conduct research in collaboration with the staff from the Faculty of Agriculture. In this conference, Mr. Saliya Sampath and Dr. S.S. Sivakumar supervised one of the agricultural engineering student’s final year research together with the Agriculture staff Professor T. Mikunthan and Dr. M. Prabaharan. The student presented his research findings in the conference. The research was title on “Assessment of Rainfall stations for its suitability to represent Magalla reservoir catchment, Nikaweratiya”.

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2017 Career Guidance Program of the Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna

The first career fair of the Engineering Faculty University of Jaffna was held on the 1st of November 2017 at IESL members lounge Colombo. The Chief Guest was the former President of IESL Eng. Jayavilal Meegoda and Guest of Honors IESL President and CEO. Thirteen local companies have expressed their willingness to participate in this historic event. The IESL student chapter President of Faculty of Engineering Mr. S. Nidershan welcomed the guests followed by the presentations from the industry and the students’ final year projects. Followed by the inaugural session, the companies conducted interviews until 4.30 p.m. The event was coordinated by a team members headed by Dr. Ravi Wijesiriwardana, Senior Lecturer attached to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He also served as the coordinator of the Career Guidance Cell of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna.

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Faculty staff attended to the IP

Dean Professor A. Atputharajah and University Business Linkage Coordinator Mr. R. Valluvan participated to the workshop on IP Management, Technology Commercialization for Technology Managers of Hub & spoke Institutions. This was held from 30th October till 4th November 2017. Both of the Dean and Coordinator attended to the first day and Continued by Mr. R. Valluvan for the other four days. This workshop was organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with Sri Lanka’s Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI), National Intellectual Property Office (NIPO) and with the Assistance of the Japan Patent Office (JPO). This was held in Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo. It was so excellent workshop from the resource persons, who had few decades of experience in this field.

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Dean Attended to the CVCD Conference on “Changing Higher Education Landscape in Sri Lanka – Challenges and Opportunities”

The CVCD conference 2017 was held on 26th October 2017. All the top officers of the Higher Education Systems were presented. The University Grant Commission Chairman and Vice Chairman, Vice Chancellors of all the Universities, Deans of the Faculties in Sri Lankan Universities, Registrars and other related officers were participated. The His Excellency Presidents, Ministers were also invited to the inaugural sessions. It was excellent knowledge sharing sessions with the foreign experts on changing the Higher Education Landscape.

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Government of India Vehicles to Kilinochchi Premises

A Grant from the Government of India, total of 600 million Sri Lankan Rupees (300 million rupees for Faculty of Agriculture and 300 million rupees for Faculty of Engineering), buildings, vehicles, equipment, library books and training together with staff exchange program were planned. As planned the buildings works were completed and opened on 30th June 2017. then the vehicles were purchased as follow up actions after the buildings were completed and opened. An event was organized to handing over the vehicles on 23rd October 2017.

The event was blessed with the Head of the Development Cooperation wind from Indian Embassy Eng. D.C. Manjunath, Consul General of India in Jaffna Mr. A. Natarajan and the Vice Chancellor of the University Professor R. Vigneswaran. Deans of Faculties, Professors, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers, Non Academic Staff Members and Students were participated. Further Provincial Directors, Managers, Engineers and other Government officials also participated in the ceremony. In this ceremony, 34 million (excluding taxes) rupees worth of six vehicles were handed over:

  1. One 54 seated A/C Bus
  2. One 26 seated A/C Bus
  3. One double cab
  4. One single cab pickup
  5. Tractor
  6. One Safari Jeep

The University of Jaffna sincerely thank the Government of India for their support to the Faculties of Agriculture and Engineering. Further the Sri Lankan Government officials from the University Grant Commission, Ministry of Higher Education and Treasury for their team work to get this support very successfully. Express the whole hearted thank message to the Ambassador of Indian Embassy at Sri Lanka and Officials of the Indian Embassy for their help on achieving this donation for the smooth operation of the Faculties at Kilinochchi Premises of the University of Jaffna.

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Initial Discussion on implementing the E-Kalvi Programs at Schools

The E-Kalvi program was initially done by the Dr. Ethirveerasingam together with other team of members from the office of the Provincial Director of Education and office of the Planning section of the Ministry of Education. This was to prepare the CDs and distribute to the schools.

Then the Jaffna University Graduate Association Victoria Branch in Australia, picked it up seriously by preparing it with USB using html format, where it was so easy to use. Further there were not only give the USB but also gave related other supportive equipment such as computer/laptops, projector, head phones and projector screen. This helps the students, who were learning in E-Kalvi Centers in few districts, to use it in smooth manner. This E-Kalvi team was headed by the below members as a branch from the Jaffna Graduate Association – Victoria Branch in Australia.

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Staff Welfare Society was formed at the Faculty of Engineering

The faculty human resource was growing rapidly when included academic and nonacademic staff members. To strengthen the team work and relationship while helping each other, it was discuss for a period of time to form a common welfare society. As a result on 19th October 2017, a meeting was conducted by inviting all the staff members and the welfare society was formed. Here Mrs. Janaki Aravintharaj (Assistant Registrar) was selected as the Chairperson, Mr. Saliya Sampath (Lecturer) was selected as the Secretary and Mr. M. Sasitharagurukkal (Technical Officer) was selected as the Treasurer. Then others were selected as a committee members. The faculty planning to have annual events to strengthen the human relationship among all the staff members.

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