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 8th 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 7th 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.
A study tour was organized, on 3rd June 2016, by the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science to experience the development of the roof top solar project and solar measuring station. A group of students headed by Professor P. Ravirajan visited to the Faculty. This is to share the knowledge and experience on roof top solar project and solar measuring station. The students visited to the project sites at the Faculty of Engineering. Further they requested for the data collected from the solar measuring station for their research work.
Eng. M. Vignarajah obtained his B.Sc.Eng. degree with Second Class Honors from the University of Peradeniya in 2000. Also he earned M.Phil. degree from University of Peradeniya in 2005. Then he moved to United States and obtained M.Sc in Civil Engineering. He is currently reading for his Ph.D. while attached to the Department of Civil Engineering as Senior Lecturer Grade I.
University Business Linkage program, the GIZ brought a consultant Mr. Jay Cousins from Berlin, to deliver a session at Kilinochchi on 30th May 2016. The session was organized for students as well as the staff. Jay was a creative and entrepreneurial personality, who does very inspirational work in prototyping, business and community building. He’s done several Ted talks and created a few lab spaces in Berlin. Continue reading
Invitation for Bids – Supply of Mechanical, Civil Engineering Laboratory Equipment & Lab Furniture: The bid was called on 24th May 2016 to supply equipment for the Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Laboratory furniture.The young staff of the Departments,which 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