Students of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna won the championship for Chess at the Inter-Faculty Fresher’s Meet 2015. This was held in University of Jaffna, during October 2015, covering all nine faculties. Continue reading
Delegates (Prof Yoansong WEI and Prof MIN YANG) from Chinese Academy of Sciences visited Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering 22nd October. The discussion were mainly on development oriented research activities in water related fields. Continue reading
The Vijayathasami pooja day is the best day for education to kick off. The traditional house warming ceremony of the new building was held on the same day on 22nd October 2015. The event was blessed with the participation of the Vice Chancellor Senior Professor Vasanthy Arasaratnam, Deans of the other Faculties, Staff of the Faculties of Engineering and Agriculture and Students of the Faculty of Engineering. This function was organized by the students of the Faculty of Engineering with the guidance from Assistant Registrar together with the Faculty staff members. Milk was boiled with prayer to Goddess Saraswathy and the happiness was shared among all participants by sharing the milk with sweet.
A workshop was conducted by the Australian-Sri Lankan University partnerships project on developing community-based waste recycling businesses. This was coordinated by Dr. Randika Jayasinghe from the project while Dr. V. Cynthujah coordinated from the Faculty of Engineering.
The Young Members Section (YMS) is one of the program included in the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka’s 109th Annual sessions. This was held on 21st October 2015 at the IESL head office in Colombo. Among the 17 papers presented, in this IESL YMS 2015, from Universities as well as Industries, two papers were from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna. The papers were presented by (i) Mr. S. Sangar supervised by Ms. H. Krishanarajah and Dr. K. Velayuthamurthy and (ii) Mr. B. Shanthigan, coauthored by Ms. V. Tharshikka and supervised by Mr. S. Thananjeyan and Dr. V. Cynthujah. These were the first two papers from the undergraduates of the Faculty presented in a technical session. The faculty congratulates the success of these two students with their volunteer based projects under supervision of the Faculty staff members.
A core team of staff members headed by Dr. Randika Jayasinghe, who is the Project Coordinator of the Australian – Sri Lankan University Partnerships to develop community-based waste recycling businesses from the University of Western Australia, visited to the Faculty on 20th October 2015. This project is mainly targeted to convert the waste materials into business for the community. As a result a heat and compressing machine was donated to start small scale projects with community interaction with demonstration. Continue reading
Quality Assurance and Accreditation (QAA) workshop organized by the Ministry of Higher Education and Highways for the stakeholders, was held from 16th to 17th October 2015 at hotel Berjaya, Mount Lavinia. The workshop was attended by more than 120 participants from universities all over Sri Lanka. Dr. P. Kathirgamanathan, coordinator of the Faculty QAA cell attended the workshop.
Eng. K. Gnanalingam, who is a retired Additional General Manager from the Ceylon Electricity Board, donated two solar panels (Model- Phono Solar, Module type-PS250P-20/U) through his cousin Mr. Thirayambagan on 10th October 2015. This donation was to enhance students’ projects at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The donor is willing to use these solar panels to promote the use of Solar Energy in the country, which is blessed with very good sunshine.
A set of friendly cricket matches were organized between the Faculty staff and students on 7th and 8th October 2015. This was organized by the second batch (E/14) of students. It promotes good social harmony among the staff and students. This was organized in an excellent manner with three teams; staff, first batch and second batch of students. Very enjoyable set of matches, which led the staff to win the toss while students to win the match.
The Undergraduate Inventor of the Year (UIY) 2015 competition was established by the IESL to encourage and stimulate creativity and interest in inventions among engineering undergraduates and provide opportunities for engineering undergraduates to organize and present their original inventions. It’s also a forum for networking within engineering undergraduates in Sri Lanka as well as members of industry and academia.