Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah Award

The following students have been awarded Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah award for their best performance in semester exams at the special faculty board held on 20th September 2017. The selected students were excited about the award and expressed their sincere gratitude to Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah. They further said that such awards motivate them to excel in their studies.

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Jaffna Lagoon Projects (River for Jaffna Project) Discussion

Mr Ijzermans, team leader DR mission, Eng G.V. Ratnasara, MCB consultant, Eng S.P.P. Gamage, MCB consultant, Eng V. Preamkumar, Director Irrigation, Eng N. Suthaharan Deputy Director Irrigation and Sarvananthan Sarvaraja, IE Jaffna, were visited to the faculty of engineering university of Jaffna. This meeting was held at the Department of Civil Engineering on 25th January 2017. During this visit, the delegates had a discussion about the Jaffna Lagoon projects (River for Jaffna Project) with Dr. (Eng.) S.S. Sivakumar, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering.

IESL workshop on Curriculum Mapping and Aligning Assessments

IESL workshop on Curriculum Mapping and Aligning Assessments was held on 16th January 2017 at IESL, Sri Lanka. This is specially done for Civil Engineering, therefore following academic staff of Department of Civil Engineering was participated in this workshop on behalf of faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna: (i) Eng. K.M. Vignarajah, (ii) Dr. N. Sathiparan, (iii) Dr. D.N. Subramaniam, (iv) Dr. B. Ketheesan and (v) Miss. T. Logeswaran. Prof. Julia Lamborn from Australia was the resource person for the workshop and around 50 academics from universities and institutions providing 4 year engineering degree programmes in Sri Lanka participated. President of IESL, Eng. Jayavilal Meegoda welcomed the participants to the workshop.

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Tamil-Sinhala Teaching Program

Tamil Sinhala teaching program stared on 10th January 2017 for all the students from E13, E14 and E15 batches. It is also open to any persons from staff or students to learn the Tamil and Sinhala languages. This course contains 100 hours of lectures. The main focus of this course is to learn how to understand and talk with each other persons while learning little bit on writing and reading.

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Mr. S. Thananjeyan got full scholarship for his PhD research at University of Melbourne

Mr. S. Thananjeyan received Honours Degree of BScEng with first class from University of Moratuwa in 2009. He has been working for Embla Software Innovation (pvt) ltd for four years since 2009. He served as a senior software engineer since 2012. He is a Certified Scrum Master. He joined the Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna in 2013. He received Masters in Business Administration in Information Technology (MBA-IT) from University of Moratuwa in 2014. He is currently reading for PhD at the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of University of Melbourne in Australia since 9th January 2017. He received Melbourne Research Scholarship which is an Elite PhD Scholars’ Program jointly offered by the University Grant Commission of Sri Lanka and Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. M.K. Ahilan was recruited to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Dr. M.K. Ahilan joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka in January 2017 as a senior lecturer. He was working as visiting researcher at Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies (SAIVT) lab, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is holding Australian and Sri Lankan Citizenships since 2016.Continue reading

Dr. Ravi Wijesiriwardana was recruited to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Dr. Ravi is specialized in the multi-disciplinary field of wearable physiological information monitoring systems. He received his PhD from University of Manchester UK from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences in 2005. His PhD has resulted the first electro mechanics model for the electro conductive fabric structures and Novel Fiber Meshed Transducers for wearable physiological information monitoring systems. His work has produced two international Patents and startup companies as smart life technologies Inc UK and in Textronics Inc USA.Continue reading

Purchase of Civil Engineering Design Codes: SLS-EN Standards

The faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna, has purchased civil engineering design codes from the Sri Lanka Standards Institute (SLSI). Structural and Geotechnical Designs are core entities of civil engineering curriculum, based on Eurocodes (EN-Standards). The following codes (690 documents, almost 3 million worth) are available in the engineering library for the usage of students. This is mainly focus on producing undergraduates with the design knowledge by using the latest standards.Continue reading