Professor EliathambyAmbikairajah, Head of School of Electrical Engineering &Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales in Australia,donated embedded systems design kits for the first batch students. He also donated Electronic Dice Souvenir project for the first and second batch ofengineering students of Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna. Thisproject was very well appreciated by the first and second batch students.
Ms. P. Jeyananthan and Ms. J. Segar joined department of Computer Engineering as lecturer (probationary) from 1st of January 2016. This department had only one academic member until both of them have joined the department. Ms. T. Logeswaran also joined department of Civil Engineering as lecturer (probationary) on same day.
Dr. R. Logen Logendran is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Graduate Program Chair in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. Prof was appointed to the Faculty of Engineering as a visiting professor from 4th July for five weeks to serve the faculty on teaching subjects for Mechanical Engineering students and at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. His lectures were very well attended by the students and his mentoring to the staff members were excellent. During his stay here he also helped to revise the curriculum on the Mechanical Engineering subjects. The Department and the Faculty thanks his services, which helped specially at the initial stage of the Faculty development.