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.
Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya delivered a talk on Sri Lanka energy sector status and future outlook to the students of faculty of engineering, University of Jaffna, at his visit to Jaffna and Kilinochchi on 15th August 2016. He was invited by Dr. A. Atputharajah, Dean Faculty of Engineering. The talk was excellent to update the students with the trends in energy sector. The talk attracted to the lecturers and students in the Faculty. During his visit he also observed the faculty development with all renewable energy technologies such as 60kW pilot project of the roof top solar system, solar measuring station and 5 kW wind turbine. Continue reading
Mr Saliya Sampath, Mr K Mayuresan and Mr S A Xavier attended One – day Workshop on Urban Drainage / Flood System Analysis and Green Intervention Design on 13th August 2016 at Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. This is organized by WaSo Asia project of University of Peradeniya. Resource persons of the workshop are Prof. Assela Pathirana and Prof. S.B. Weerakoon. WaSo Asia project of University of Jaffna sponsored above participants from the University of Jaffna.
Dr. T. Thiruvaran served as member of the Executive Committee of the Jaffna University International Research Conference (JUICE) 2016. This conference is considered as one of the outstanding event to increase the visibility of the University of Jaffna at the International level. The Faculty staff also starts supporting this conference as the Faculty is growing with number of staff. This conference is an excellent hard work of a team consists of all 10 faculties’ staff members. The conference was successfully conducted on 12th – 13th August 2017 and the team was headed by the Faculty of Arts.
The faculty building complex worth of 1520 million rupees construction was commenced on 14th of June 2014. Another 800 million for equipment and 200 million approved for furniture. Further, 300 million rupees is granted by the Indian Government to construct a building for Mechanical Engineering, and to purchase workshop equipment and other facilities.
The Mechanical Engineering students visited S- Lon factory in Negombo on August 12th 2016.
Students of 2013/E batch who are specializing in the fields of Mechanical Engineering following a core module on Advanced Machine Design for the sixth semester of their curriculum were present with other staff members. Students experienced with the real field exposure on Machine design and factory process. Visiting professor, Prof. K. Chelvakumaran arranged the field visit in collaboration with S-Lon, Capital Maharajah organization. The faculty thank the S-Lon Pvt Ltd for their help on organizing this field trip to the Mechanical Engineering students.