Year: 2014

Dr. Roshan Ragel was visiting the Faculty from November 2013 onwards, time to time to help with the curriculum development of the Department of Computer Engineering. By February 2014, the first three semester syllabus was completed. Currently, we are finalizing the last five semester syllabus. He recently visited the Faculty and stayed for three days from 3rd November till 5th November 2014. He was leading the team to develop curriculum of the Department of Computer Engineering. He has gone through the curriculum and detail syllabus of the Computer Engineering program with the Faculty staff members during this visit. Continue reading

Professor V. Navaratnarajah donated 165 books to the Library of the Faculty of Engineering on 16th October 2014. Further, he donated another 45 books through Prof. K. Kandasamy to the Library to support newly commencing technology stream in the University of Jaffna.

Prof V. Navaratnarajah and two technical officers were appointed by the University in 1990, to work on related matters on establishing the Faculty of Engineering. Continue reading

The presenter Nimal Gunawardena is a Senior Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Peradeniya (UoP), Sri Lanka. He has obtained M.Sc and PhD in Soil and Water Engineering from Cranfield University in UK. He has been involved in capacity building activities in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) since 2002 with the introduction of IWRM postgraduate programme at the Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture at UoP. Continue reading

As the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna is a newly emerging faculty, it is desirable for the Faculty to invite experienced teachers like Dr. Nihal Somaratna to provide the undergraduates an opportunity to interact with such teachers.  Dr. Somaratna has been visiting the faculty on Fridays during the month of October 2014. During this period he conducted a part of the first year course “Engineering Mechanics”.  Dr. Somaratna has also been serving as an external member of the Faculty Board since January 2014. Continue reading

Three day training program on Solar Photovoltaic for technicians was held in Hambantota, Sri Lanka from 25th to 27th October 2014. Mr. M. Sasitharagurukkal, technical officer, Faculty of Engineering, university of Jaffna was nominated to take part in the training program from the University of Jaffna. The training program was conducted by Global Sustainable Energy Solutions from Australia. The prime objective of the solar PV training program is to contribute towards operation and maintenance phases of ongoing net-metering schemes, which are based on solar PV rooftop installations. Continue reading

As a part of the presently undertaken ADB aided project on grid-connected, net-metered, rooftop solar PV systems, four Engineering Faculties in Sri Lanka will get a complete set of solar PV systems installed within their premises. The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna is one of them, has been selected to award about 50kW rooftop solar PV systems. As a part of the project, Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) conducted a 5 Day training program on Solar Photovoltaic in Hambantota from 22nd to 26th October 2014.

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Dr. T. Thiruvaran appointed as the acting head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering on 17th October 2014. He received BScEng Degree with first class honours from University of Peradeniya in 2002. He was the batch second in the final year of his studies in 2002 and obtained University Prize for Academic Excellence from University of Peradeniya. He obtained PhD from University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2010. He is serving the University of Jaffna as a senior lecturer as one of the founder staff member of the Faculty of Engineering. Continue reading

The first IESL Annual Sessions paper from the University of Jaffna was presented by Mr. S. Thananjeyan on 15th October 2014 at the IESL Wimalasurendra Auditorium. Thananjeyan is a lecturer from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He worked with the team of members comprising Mr. S. Arunan, from Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. T. Thiruvaran and Dr. A. Atputharajah, who are from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This was a good research that addresses integrated solutions with the energy storage, which plays multiple roles with applications in transportation and power systems.

The Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED) has been launched by Norwegian Agency for Development Corporation (NORAD).  Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna (UoJ) has already formulated a partnership programme with the Faculty of Engineering of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (UoP), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Institute of Technology of Cambodia, (ITC), Telemark University College Norway (TUC), and University of Life Sciences Norway (UMB) through this NORAD assistance. Continue reading

The University of Jaffna thanks His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa for helping for the development of both the Faculties of Agricultural and Engineering at Kilinochchi at the event held at DS office in Kilinochchi on 13th October 2014.
History of the development of the Faculty of Engineering: In 1979, the Senate and Council of the University of Jaffna appointed a committee to submit proposal to establish the Faculty of Engineering and comprehensive report submitted in 1980. Continue reading