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Prof. N. Ravichandran from Clemson University, USA visited and served as a contract appointment at the faculty of engineering for five weeks from 23^rd June 2016. He engaged in teaching Geotechnical Engineering and Design for third year civil engineering students. In addition to teaching, he involved in developing curriculum, designing labs, preparing strategic plan of the faculty and mentoring young academics. Even before this visit, he has been actively involving in helping the faculty for a longer period. His earlier visits to the faculty was in December 2015 and July 2014.

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A session for introducing Office 365 Education for Faculty of Engineering staff was held on 22^nd June 2016 at the computer laboratory. Mr. S. Thananjeyan, Mrs. J. Pratheeba and Miss S. Jananie conducted the session. The contents of the session are introduction of Office 365 academic package, the usage of the package for the faculty, collaboration workspace using SharePoint sites and the use of Classroom for teaching and learning activities. The session was concluded with the hands-on lab session. Most of the academic staff of the faculty of Engineering participated in the session.

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A delegation from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) from the United States visited to the Faculty on 21^st June 2016. The MCC is an independent U.S. government agency focused on global poverty reduction. This is the MCC team’s third visit to Sri Lanka and they are analyzing the constraints affecting certain sectors’ ability to generate even more jobs and income. Sri Lanka was selected for a threshold program, which comes with a series of smaller grants, but is being considered for a compact program, which would include large, five-year grants to revolutionize specific sector(s). Continue reading

First year students (E/15 batch) of Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna celebrated the PosonPoya day. They organized a Posondansala on 19^th June 2016. They prepared a good looking hut at Ariviyal Nagar junction on A9 road and gave water melon fruit to the people passing through the A9 road. Second year and third year students also helped the dansalaevent with friendship. It was a really interesting event and Dean of the Faculty and Mr. SaliyaSampath, lecturer of the Faculty participated to this event. Continue reading

The National Development Bank and the Sri Lanka Railway have signed the document to establish the Ariviyal Nagar Railway Station. The master plan, structural plan, architectural plan all were developed and approved to start the work from June 2016. The past history of this station can be seen from the link of http://www.jfn.ac.lk/eng/content/train-station-ariviyal-nagar. Continue reading

Two staff members including Eng. M. Vignarajah, Member of the University Business Linkage from Faculty of Engineering, participated to this National Level Innovation and IP Policy conference. The Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI) arranged a two-day conference on “National Level Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy Conference” on June 14, 2016 at Hilton Colombo Residencies. Continue reading

Honorable Balasubramaniam Deniswaran, Northern Provincial Minister of Fisheries, Transport, Trade and Commerce, Rural Development, Road Development and Motor Traffic, placed foundation stone for the bus halts closer to the junction at the A9 and University Roads. Former Member of the Parliament, Deans and staff of Faculties of Agriculture and Engineering, Deputy Registrar Kilinochchi premises, and Assistant Registrars of the both faculties, Student Union leaders, Chief Engineers and Engineers from RDD and RDA, Managers of the Industries from MAs holding and Cargill food processing unit and Rural Development Society president of the Ponnagar area were participated. Continue reading

The Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Coordinator of the WaSo Asia Project Dr S.S. Sivakumar, from the Faculty of Engineering, Prof Meena Sentilnantanen from the Faculty of Science and Dr Anantini Nanthakumar from the Vavuniya Campus participated in this conference. This conference was organized by Norad from 6th to 9th June in Oslo, Norway. Continue reading

Newly appointed principals visited to the Faculty of Engineering on 8^th June to see the new development of technology together with the buildings of the Faculty of Engineering. This visit was organized by the District Secretariat office of Kilinochchi, covering both Kilinochchi and Mullativu Districts. There were totals of 35 participants including principals and planning officers from the Department of Education. Continue reading

Meeting was organized at the Indian High Commission of Sri Lanka at Colombo on 7^th June 2016. There were few delegates from educational institutions from India and Sri Lanka. This meeting is organized as a follow-up event to the decision taken at the 9th Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) held on February 2016 at Colombo. This is to encourage mutually beneficial linkages between the Universities and educational institutions in India and Sri Lanka. 

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