Year: 2017

This program was organized by Water Harmony Erasmus+ (WHE+), Water Harmony Eurasia ii (WHII) and Water Magic (WM) projects. Three students from University of Jaffna attended WHII, WHE+ and WM Masters Summer School courses at Oslo, Norway from 19th June till 7th July 2017: (1) Mr. Nirojan Kumaradevan, Master Student doing the research part at the Faculty of Engineering, (2) Mr. Vigneshwaran Vijayakanth, PhD Student at the Faculty of Engineering and (3) Mr. Kuddithamby Gunaalan, Lecturer, Department of Fishery, Faculty of Science. All these students attended from UoJ with the support from the WHE+ project of the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna.

Continue reading

This summer course program was organized by Water Society and Climate Change project (WaSo). Two students from University of Jaffna attended WaSo Masters Summer School courses at Oslo, Norway from June 19 – July 7, 2017: (1) Mr. Nagamuthu Piratheeparajah, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and (2) Ms. Piratheepa Vipulan, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts. This visit was supported by the WaSo project attached to the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna.

Continue reading

The team from the Faculty of Engineering, the Dean Professor A. Atputharajah, Heads of the Departments Dr. T. Thiruvaran, Dr. A. Anburuvel, Dr. A. Kaneswaran and Dr. B. Ketheesan from Department of Civil Engineering, had very good interactive discussion for couple of hours in South California on 10th June. This visit was coordinated by Eng. P. Piratheepan and his team. Number of professionals participated to this event. It was pleased notified that Mrs. Thurairajah was invited for this discussion. Professor K. Chelvakumar was also participated to this discussion, who knows the Faculty of Engineering operations, as he visited few times and served the faculty, by staying a month per year.

Continue reading

The team from the Faculty of Engineering, the Dean Professor A. Atputharajah, Heads of the Departments Dr. T. Thiruvaran, Dr. A. Anburuvel, Dr. A. Kaneswaran and Dr. B. Ketheesan from Department of Civil Engineering, visited to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on 10th June. This visit was coordinated by Professor K. Chelvakumar and supported by care for education.

Continue reading

The Waste for Life is a project was initiated by Dr. Randika Jayasinghe (who completed PhD in this field) together with the leadership of Profesor Caroline Baillie (who is the Chair of Engineering Education at the School of Civil Environmental and Mining Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at University of Western Australia). This was one of the excellent project which proven its outcome. This was initiated in August 2014.

Continue reading

The team from the Faculty of Engineering, the Dean Professor A. Atputharajah, Heads of the Departments Dr. T. Thiruvaran, Dr. A. Anburuvel, Dr. A. Kaneswaran and Dr. B. Ketheesan from Department of Civil Engineering met few Engineering professionals during the dinner time discussion at California USA. The team stayed with the Engineering professionals residential places and therefore the discussions were held during 7th to 9th June 2017 at their residential places in small groups. It was excellent and nice to meet the graduates, who graduated from Universities of Peradeniya, Moratuwa and Ruhuna. The discussions were on meeting friends, possible collaborations, networking, possible financial support for poor students, motivational awards for students and possible logistic supports for students exchange program. The faculty team thanking all the members in California and care for education, who helped for organizing this excellent activities while networking with leading professionals.

Continue reading

Dr. Ravindra Wijesiriwardana take part in two conference held in Shanghai China and conducting a guest lecture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He conducted a lecture on nonlinear acoustics at the Media Design PolyU on an invitation by Dr. Gino Yu. He also got the chance to see their lab facilities, virtual reality projects, Ambisonic setups and discuss with Ph.D. Students. This opened up possible collaborations with the Ambisonic group at PolyU and possibility of jointly or remotely supervising some of their Ph.D. students. Also the team agreed to give the full support for Ravindra’s research requirements of advanced acoustic tests. Ravindra also delivered an invited presentation at Consciousness Science Technology and Society Conference (CSTS) held on the 9th of June 2017 in Shanghai. The talk was “Emptiness of Consciousness from Buddhism and Science Perspectives” it is available at Research gate online.

Continue reading

The team was separated in to two category such as Administration and Technical. The technical team includes the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies – Dr. A. Anburuvel and Dr. B. Ketheesan from Department of Civil Engineering visited to the University of California San Diego. This visit was done on 8th June morning and it was coordinated by Professor N. Ravichandran and supported by care for education. The team visited centrifuge and shake table facilities at the University of California San Diego.

Continue reading

The administrative team includes Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Professor A. Atputharajah, Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering – Dr. T. Thiruvaran and Head of the Department of Computer Engineering – Dr. A. Kaneswaran visited to the California State LA University in USA. This was done on 8th June morning. This visit was coordinated by Professor Nanda Ganeshan and supported by care for education.

Continue reading

The team was separated in to two category such as Administration and Technical. The technical team includes the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies – Dr. A. Anburuvel and Dr. B. Ketheesan from Department of Civil Engineering visited to the California State University Fullerton. This visit was done on 8th June afternoon and it was coordinated by Professor N. Ravichandran and supported by care for education. In this visit, the team visited the geotechnical laboratory and research laboratory of Prof Binod Tiwari and Dr Beena Ajmera. Also the team looked at the on-going student projects and university-School collaborative projects.

Continue reading