University of Jaffna has altogether 10 faculties operating in importantly three different places such as Jaffna, Vavuniya and Kilinochchi. It is a challenge for the administration to operate with minimum number of human resources. Therefore the finance branch conducted a workshop on the newly developed structure on delegation of powers for efficient operations. This was held on 25th April 2016. All the administrative staff including deans and head of the departments participated in this workshop.
Faculty staff attended a workshop organized by UGC
Vice Chancellors and Deans of the Universities in Sri Lanka, attended the workshop organized by the UGC on 22nd April 2016. This consultative workshop was on “Preventing Ragging and Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Universities” and it was held at the Galadari Hotel. This was the second in a series of initiatives workshops organized by the UGC during the year 2016. Continue reading
Equipment Purchase to the Faculty of Engineering – 2016 (Second set)
Invitation for Bids – Supply of Civil, Computer Engineering, IT Equipment and Laboratory Furniture: The bid has been called on 20th April 2016 to supply equipment for the Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering and IT Equipment and Laboratory furniture. Both Heads of the Departments, Lecturers and Technical Officers were working very hard as excellent team to order the best standard equipment for the experiments to be conducted at the Faculty. Continue reading
Prof Kanes K Rajah visited to the Faculty of Engineering
Professor Kanes K Rajah, who is the Royal Agricultural University Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, visited the Faculty of Engineering on 19th April 2016. Discussion with him by the Faculty staff, gave directions with Entrepreneurships. It was wonderful and very interesting discussions on how the Universities can be benefitted by giving their best services to the country. Continue reading
Professor Alfred Antony Christy visited to the Faculty with delegates from University of Agder
Professor Alfred A. Christy who is from the Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, Norway, visited the Faculty of Engineering on 8th April 2016. He visited with his team to discuss the opportunities of pursuing postgraduate studies, staff exchange and possible research collaborations. It was an excellent discussion with the team of the staff from the University of Agder. Continue reading
Dr. Tony Sahama visited to the Faculty for a discussion with young staff and Heads of the Departments
Dr. Tony Sahama, who is the coordinator Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for the split program agreed upon between QUT and UGC, visited the Faculty of Engineering on 4thApril 2016. This visit was arranged to discuss about the opportunities of pursuing postgraduate studies at the QUT at Brisbane Australia. The University Grant Commission has signed an agreement with the QUT for motivating the young permanent academic staff to do the postgraduate studies at the QUT. There were collaborative fundings from both the UGC as well as QUT for this program. This has opened up an excellent opportunity for the young staff to complete their postgraduate studies with full funding. Continue reading
WaterH Second Project Meeting in Kandy, Sri Lanka
The WaterH Second Project meeting was held in Queen’s Hotel Kandy Sri Lanka from 30th March to 2nd April 2016. This meeting was scheduled as per the Partnership Agrееmеnt on Harmonizing water related graduate education (Water Harmony) with Еrasmus+, that supports projесt сooреration bеtwееn ten Universities in Norway, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, China and Sri Lanka.
Equipment Purchase to the Faculty of Engineering – 2016 first set
Invitation for Bids – Supply of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Equipment: The bid has been called on 17th March 2016 to supply equipment for the Mechanical Engineering section of the Department of Interdisciplinary studies and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Both Heads of the Departments, Lecturers and Technical Officers were working very hard as excellent team to order the best standard equipment for the experiments to be conducted at the Faculty. Finally after a detailed study by experts’ teams, total of 72 million equipment purchase order was sent. Continue reading
Biomass-dryer demonstration system Installed
A demonstration set-up of a biomass-dryer, donated by Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority has been successfully installed at the Faculty of Engineering on 5 th March 2016. This is based on the proposal on biomass demonstration system which had been developed by Ms. H.Krishnarajah and Dr. A. Anburuvel, under the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Mr. Mahalingasivam Yogavarathan from Norway delivered a talk on Engineers without Boarders
An introductory guest lecture by Mr. Mahalingasivam Yogavarathan from Norway on the activities of Engineers without borders and the opportunities they provide for Engineers to serve the community. This lecture was held on 3rd March 2016 at 4:15 pm in the Lecture Hall No 2, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Engineering, Ariviyal Nagar. Mr. Yogavarathan is a Senior Principal Lead with Aker Solutions AS-MMO. He has 24 years of experience on most aspects of the Oil Industry from upstream to fabrication of topside and maintenance downstream. Further he got multi-discipline experiences from R&D engineering, fabrication, installation, training, technical support and management. He is also a member of humanitarian agencies such as Engineers without boarders and Norway Cares