Dr. Ramathasan Thevamaran, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Nano-Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX. Delivered a technical presentation at the Faculty of Engineering. This talk was held at the Faculty of Engineering on 26th July 2017. This was on the cutting-edge technology on Science and Engineering field. Very interesting topic and presentation and many staff members and students participated.
Prof. Harsha Ratnaweera, Scientific Coordinator of WaSo Project, delivered a talk on “How to become unique among hundreds applicants”. It was held on 26th July 2017 at Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna. This talk was jointly organized by Civil and Environmental Engineering Society of Faculty of Engineering and Kilinochchi District Center of the IESL Northern Province Chapter. Talk was supported by WaSo project of University of Jaffna. Dr. S. S. Sivakumar, Dr. B. Ketheesan, Prof. S. Kuganathan, Prof. Meena Senthilnanthanan, Mr. D. S. Sampath, Mr. K. Gunaalan, Mr. K. Nirojan, Miss. L. Thakshajini, Mrs. Janaki Anantharajah, Mrs. P. Vipulan participated the talk. Further final and third year engineering students also attended this talk. From this talk, it was excellent to learn how to be attractive when graduates are searching for employment opportunity or applying for postgraduate studies with scholarships.
WaSo workshop on curriculum development for Postgraduate Course on “Water and Environment” was held on 26th July 2017 at Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna. Professor Harsha Ratnaweera, Dr. S.S. Sivakumar, Dr. B. Ketheesan, Prof. S. Kuganathan, Prof. Meena Senthilnanthanan, Mr. D.S. Sampath, Mr. K. Gunaalan, Mr. K. Nirojan, Miss. L. Thakshajini, Mrs. Janaki Anantharajah, Mrs. P. Vipulan participated the meeting. Professor Harsha Ratnaweera chaired the meeting and. Dr. B. Ketheesan was coordinated the curriculum development of the postgraduate program.
Prof. Harsha Ratnaweera, who is the Scientific Coordinator of WaSo Project from Norway, delivered guest lecture at the Faculty of Engineering. The lecture was on “Introduction to water and wastewater treatment” and it was held on 26th July 2017. This was very well attended by the students as targeted. This was one of the most important requirement especially in this region of the country where shortage of water is heavily reported and wastewater treatment is important. This lecture gave excellent knowledge from the senior experience professor with solid background. This lecture was organized by the students’ society with the support of WaSo project. This is to give wider knowledge to support the Civil Engineering Students studies in related subjects taught in semester 4.