Students from the Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna, resented five projects as their findings to the IESL UIY competition. This is the national level event organized on 8th July 2016 by the IESL head office in Colombo. This was a very good exposure to the Faculty students on mixing with other Faculty students while demonstrating their findings.
The Institution of Engineering Sri Lanka Northern Provincial Chapter organized a field visit on 6th July to the RO plant at Delft. This is to demonstrate this technology on water purification. Many of the Faculty students and staff participated together with the Engineers. It was an excellent trip while mixing with many professionals in the field of Engineering. Continue reading
Professor DhayalanVelauthapillai visited to the faculty on 2nd July to have a discussion on future collaborations specially on submitting a NOPART proposal. Dhayalan is a professor from the Faculty of Engineering and Business Administration of the Bergen University College in Norway. The Faculty of Science had already long past historical collaboration with Professor Dhayalan. It was excellent discussions on extending his collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering too. He also see through the facilities available at the Faculty of Engineering including the roof top solar system.
Dr. Sathiparan obtained his B.Sc.(Eng) degree from the University of Moratuwa in Year 2002. He received his M.Eng and Ph.D degree from University of Tokyo in Year 2005 and 2008, respectively. He researched in the field of seismic retrofitting masonry structures. He continued this research in the same university as Post-doctoral researcher and JSPS Fellow from October 2008 to March 2011. Before he joined the University of Jaffna, he worked at University of Ruhuna as a Senior Lecturer from Feb 2012 to June 2016.
Mrs. A. Anusuya received full scholarship to pursue her postgraduate studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She served as a Lecturer (Probationary) at the Department of Interdisciplinary studies from June 2014 till June 2016. She left the department on 30th June 2016 to read for her PhD studies in Australia. The faculty thank her services to the Faculty at the beginning stage and wishes her for the best success in her PhD research.
Professor M. Sivapalan visited to the faculty on 30th June to have a discussion on future collaborations. It was an excellent discussion with few heads of the department and the dean. He agreed to help in future with the Faculty more closely. The Faculty thank his valuable time on spending with the staff members in discussion and his intention to help the faculty in the future in many different ways.
Eng. S. Niranjanan, from Diaz Yourman & Associates, California, USA, visited to the Faculty on 27th June 2016 and delivered a talk on an overview of typical geotechnical investigation. This was an excellent overview of how Geotechnical knowledge is used in practice. The students were very well motivated towards geotechnical subject due to the inspiration from the excellent experienced professionals such as Professor N. Ravichandran and Eng. S. Niranjanan.
First Ever Startup Weekend in Sri Lanka was conducted to change the world in 54 hours! This mainly to bring participants’ creativity and skills to startup the business. This Sri Lanka’s “First Ever” Startup Weekend Jaffna was held on Friday 24thto Sunday 26thJune2016 at the Tilko Jaffna City Hotel. More information can be fund from http://www.up.co/communities/sri-lanka/jaffna-jaffna-sri-lanka/startup-weekend/9140.
Prof. N. Ravichandran from Clemson University, USA visited and served as a contract appointment at the faculty of engineering for five weeks from 23rd June 2016. He engaged in teaching Geotechnical Engineering and Design for third year civil engineering students. In addition to teaching, he involved in developing curriculum, designing labs, preparing strategic plan of the faculty and mentoring young academics. Even before this visit, he has been actively involving in helping the faculty for a longer period. His earlier visits to the faculty was in December 2015 and July 2014.
A session for introducing Office 365 Education for Faculty of Engineering staff was held on 22nd June 2016 at the computer laboratory. Mr. S. Thananjeyan, Mrs. J. Pratheeba and Miss S. Jananie conducted the session. The contents of the session are introduction of Office 365 academic package, the usage of the package for the faculty, collaboration workspace using SharePoint sites and the use of Classroom for teaching and learning activities. The session was concluded with the hands-on lab session. Most of the academic staff of the faculty of Engineering participated in the session.