Eng. M. Vignarajah participated to the Tall Building Council Meeting held on 27th June 2016. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Colombo forum conducted an evening presentation and networking session on June 27, 2016 (Monday) at 5:00 p.m to 9:00 p.m at The Kings Court, Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel, Colombo 02. This is an annual mid-year forum on “Collaborative Approaches in Tall Building Design”. This event offered an important opportunity to learn about the state-of-the-art practices in the design and construction of high-rise as part of the premier tall building design forum in Sri Lanka.
Talk on “Entrepreneurial behaviour in action: The good, bad and very powerful strategies for successes”
This talk was presented by Professor Kanes K Rajah BSc. MSC. PhD, FHEA, CMgr. FCMI. The talk was conducted on 26th July 2016 at the Faculty. He is fromRoyal Agricultural University, Cirencester, United Kingdom.
Eluvaitheevu Hybrid Power Plant Field Visit
Students of 2013/E and 2014/E who are specializing in the fields of Electrical & Electronic Engineering visited Eluvaitheevu hybrid power station, which has the wind power generation as well as the solar power plant in a small scale. This power plant is operated islanded mode to supply this small island.
Talks by Eng Krishna Nadaraja and Eng. Chandrikaa Balendhran
Engineers Krishna and Chandrikaa shared their experience by delivering talks, on 25th July 2016, to the Civil Engineering students. These talks covered the engineered application of chemical additives such as quicklime and cement into soil that results in permanent physical and chemical alterations. Further the environmental based sustainable development was stressed with already implemented environmental projects. These talks gave knowledge and confident to the students in terms of development projects together with the environmental concerns.
Dr. George Gunendran visited to the Faculty
Dr. A. G. Gunedran visited us on 25th July 2016. Dr. A. G. Gunedran is presently working as a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Application Specialist in Progress Rail (a Caterpillar Company), Sandiacre, Nottingham, UK. He did his PhD in Manufacturing Engineering, at Loughborough University, UK (2000 – 2003) and B. Sc. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering in University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. (1993 – 1997).
Mr. R. Valluvan was recruited to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Mr. R. Valluvan received his B.Sc. Eng (Hons) degree with first class honours in 2007 from University of Peradeniya and obtained his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering focusing on Telecommunications in 2010. He is pursuing his Doctoral degree at University of California, Irvine. Presently, He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as Lecturer (Probationary) from 18th July 2016.
E-86 Batch graduates from the University of Peradeniya visited to the Faculty
Dr. Nageswaran Kumaresan together with his team organised a visit of their batch (E-86), graduated from the University of Peradeniya, to the Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna. It was a wonderful day to the Faculty with number of very senior Engineers, who shared their experienced knowledge while showing the way forward of young Engineering graduates. The students and the staff of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna are very pleased to the Senior Engineers, who hold many top level positions, for explained the trends in Engineering for the students.
IEEE Introductory session for the Faculty students
An introductory session for the IEEE society was organized in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna on 16th July 2016 from 9.00 am to 12.00 noon. Five members from IEEE Sri Lanka section were presented as the resource persons for the event including Mr. Tharindu De Silva, the Chairperson of the IEEE Membership Development in Sri Lanka.
Dr. S. Niranjan visited to the Faculty of Engineering
Dr. S. Niranjan Visited to the Faculty of Engineering on 14th and 15th of July 2016. He had an interactive discussion with the staff members of the Department of Computer Engineering on Computer Engineering curriculum, laboratory development and Computer Engineering program accreditation process. He was a panellist in the discussion which was held on 15th of July 2016 with the student and the staffs of the Faculty of Engineering. His visit was a golden opportunity to share his thought with the students and the staff of the Faculty of Engineering.
Equipment Purchase to the Faculty of Engineering – 2016 (Fourth set)
Invitation for Bids – Supply of Computer, Electrical, Electronic & Lab Equipment to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna (UJ/F/PO/T/04/2016): The bid has been called on 13th July 2016 to supply equipment for the Electrical, Electronic and Computer Laboratory equipment. The young staff of the Departments, includes Senior Lecturers and Technical Officers were working very hard as excellent team to order the best standard equipment for the experiment to be conducted at the Faculty. Continue reading