FacultyOfEng – Page 31 – Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna

Mechanical Engineering students visited to the S-Lon Factory as field visit

August 8, 2016August 10, 2017FacultyOfEng

A field visit was organized to visit to the S-Lon Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, on 8th August, to help the students to develop skills while learning the knowledge where and how it is applied in industries. Dr. Kasivisvanathan Chelvakumar initiated this field visit together with the Department staff members while Mr. Mohammad Shabbir Ahmed, Factory Director of the S-lon Lanka (pvt Ltd, helped to organize the Factory visit with technical explanation team. The factory is at Ratamedapara, Singakkuliaya, Yogiyana, Sandalankawa. During the factory visit, its operations were very well explained with technical background to the students.

Professor Kasivisvanathan Chelvakumar is teaching at the Faculty

August 6, 2016August 1, 2017FacultyOfEng

Dr. Kasivisvanathan Chelvakumar appointed to the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies as visiting professor from 6^th August 2016. He is teaching to the Mechanical Engineering students. He also visited here already in two times in 2015 for a discussion as well as for teaching. We consider his vast knowledge and experience immensely contributed to the development of the mechanical engineering discipline while students were enjoying his teaching in the past. He created number of connections to the Faculty for future collaborations. His timely assistance is very much appreciated.

Professor Logen Logendran delivered a talk on“Hybrid Flow Shop Batch Scheduling Problem with a Bi-criteria Objective”

August 2, 2016August 10, 2017FacultyOfEng

Dr. R. Logen Logendran is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Graduate Program Chair in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. He delivered a talk on “Hybrid Flow Shop Batch Scheduling Problem with a Bi-criteria Objective”at the Faculty of Engineering on 2^nd August 2016. The participants includes Undergraduate students, Industrial Engineers, Staff members and researchers. It was excellent to understand the optimum schedule on industrial machinery’s operations starting from a resource person with strong knowledge in this section.

Farewell to Dr. V. Cynthujah and appreciating her services

July 31, 2016August 10, 2017FacultyOfEng

Dr. V. Cynthujahjoined the Faculty after her PhD degree from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia in 2014. She left the faculty on 31^st July 2016 as she need to travel with her family members for good. She rented her excellent services to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Faculty of Engineering during her stay. Her contributions to the Faculty and the Department at its initial stage and with number of developments were very essential and she did those with her full involvement. Continue reading

Constitution for the UBL of the UOJ

July 31, 2016August 1, 2017FacultyOfEng

Professor Kanes K Rajah, who holds the Royal Agricultural University Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, help to draft the proposed constitution for the University Business Linkage for the University of Jaffna. He visited to the Faculties of Engineering, Agriculture and Management during the last week of July 2016.

Hydro Power Plants Visit

July 30, 2016August 10, 2017FacultyOfEng

The Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering students and staff have visited to some major power stations of Sri Lanka. The field visit included Victoria, Laxapana, Nilambe mini hydro and Wimalasurendra power stations for two days. It was organized by the subject coordinator Dr. V. Cynthujah under the course “Renewable Energy”.

Eng. M. Vignarajah Participated Tall Building Council Meeting

July 27, 2016August 1, 2017FacultyOfEng

Eng. M. Vignarajah participated to the Tall Building Council Meeting held on 27^th 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”

July 26, 2016August 1, 2017FacultyOfEng

This talk was presented by Professor Kanes K Rajah BSc. MSC. PhD, FHEA, CMgr. FCMI. The talk was conducted on 26^th July 2016 at the Faculty. He is fromRoyal Agricultural University, Cirencester, United Kingdom.

Eluvaitheevu Hybrid Power Plant Field Visit

July 26, 2016August 10, 2017FacultyOfEng

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

July 25, 2016August 10, 2017FacultyOfEng

Engineers Krishna and Chandrikaa shared their experience by delivering talks, on 25^th 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.