Representing University of Jaffna, Faculty of Engineering Students participated the 12th Sri Lanka University Games (SLUG) -2016 held from 1st September to 13th September 2016 at University of Wayamba, Sri Lanka.
Mr. Neorooshan Durairaja, 3rd Year Engineering Student, a member of the Road race team won 7th Place in Individual Race and as the team University of Jaffna succeeded to win 1st Place.
The GIZ SME Development Program with the partnership of the University Grant Commission organize a national event on 9th September 2016. This was attended by UGC Vice Chairman, German consultants, GIZ officers, Universities’ coordinators, Deans of the Faculties and other officers. This was “Breaking boundaries to innovate University Business Linkage in Sri Lanka”. This program is conducted to conclude the project carried out for last one year period with the support of the GIZ by inviting German experts. Continue reading
Four professors from Indian Institute of Technology, where two of them are from IIT Bombay, one of them is IIT Indore and one prof is from IIT Punjab, visited to the Faculty of Engineering. This visit and discussion was organized on 7th September 2016 by Hon. A. Natarajan, Consul General of India, Jaffna consulate. Acting Dean of the Faculty, Dr. A. Anburuvel, invited all the professors from IITs and had very good interactive discussions with all the staff and students of the Faculty of Engineering.
The Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society (EEES) organized a talk on “Video Sensor Network” on 6th of September 2016 from 10.15 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. at Lecture hall 2. This talk was done by Dr.Kuganeswaran Thambu, Software Architect, Cicerone Technology Inc.
This University level competition was organized by the University Business Linkage (UBL) committee on 5th September 2016. This committee was headed by Mr. K. Umashankar at the University level while faculty level activities were coordinated by Mr. R. Valluvan. For this event Professor S. Mohanadas, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, was invited as the chief guest. All faculties’ deans were invited to deliver short speeches about this award. This event was supported by the German Sri Lanka Cooperation, GIZ, Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Yarlpanam, The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. M. Siyamalan joined the Department of Computer Engineering as Senior Lecturer on 5th September 2016. He received BSc Degree with first class honours from University of Jaffna in 2006, MSc from Polytech, University of Nice, France in 2011, and PhD from University of Dundee, UK in 2015. He has over 7 years of fulltime research (including 2 years at industry), and about a year of tutoring and lecturing experience.
EEES organized a talk on “Wearable physiological information monitoring Systems and future trends of Telemedicine” on 2nd of September 2016 from 10.15 a.m. to 11.00 a.m at Lecture hall 2. This talk was done by Dr. Ravindra Wijesiriwardana,Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
This competition was organized by the University Business Linkage (UBL) committee on 30th August 2016. The UBL is initiated by the UGC for all the Universities with the support of GIZ. The University of Jaffna conducted several workshops and seminar to get the views of the staff and administrators and drafted a circular for establishing the UBL. A team of professors, deans and senior staff were working on it. From the faculty of Engineering, Mr. R. Valluvan and Mr. M. Vignarajah were nominated for the UBL committee.
The Kelani Sakthi program conducted in Tamil Medium by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering to produce good standard electricians to the region. The same is conducted by University of Peradeniya in Sinhala Medium.
D. S. Sampath, D. A. M. Jeerasinghe and M. D. T. Buddhimal attended WaSo Asia Workshop on Introduction to modeling River Flow and Morphodynamics within the IRIC interface on 25th and 26thAugust 2016 at Kandyan Arts residencies hotel, Kandy. Workshop organized and sponsored by WaSo Asia project of University of Peradeniya, United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Hokkaido University.