A two day training program on the theme ‘Assessments for outcome based learning’ was conducted by Associate Prof Lyn Brodie,Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia on June 3rd and 4th, 2015 at Hotel Ozo,Colombo 4. Prof. Lyn Brodie is identified as an expert trainer on Outcome Based Education. This program was organized by the Institution of Engineering Sri Lanka for the selected academic staff member in Sri Lankan Universities.
Full term Heads are appointed to the Faculty of Engineering on 1stJune 2015
The faculty got five PhD holders and getting towards stable operations with the Acting Dean and Acting Heads appointments from November 2013. The full term Heads are appointed from 1st June 2015 for three years. The heads appointments are listed below:
Industrial Training Program for E/13 Batch Undergraduates of Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna
Students of E/13 batch are undergoing an industrial training program for 12 weeks from 11th May 2015 to 31st July 2015. It is part of their compulsory requirement for their curriculum. This program is scheduled after the third semester of study as a general training session.
Students obtained training from 20 reputed organizations in many part of the country including Colombo, Trincomalee, Jaffna, Batticaloa, Puttalum and Mihinthale. Continue reading
Students completed their 1st semester and 3rd semester studies on 10th May 2015
The first and second batch students, of the Faculty of Engineering, completed their third and first semesters of their studies on 10th May 2015. The first batch students will have their Industrial Training while the second batch will have three months of leave. Continue reading
Dr. Sivakumar is appointed as one of the member in the committee under Prime minister’s office in May 2015
Dr. S.S. Sivakumar is appointed as one of the member in the Cabinet Sub Committee on Economic Affairs under Prime minister’s office. This committee is to look into the capacity and capability of the Sri Lanka Railway (SLR) in track-laying meeting international standards. This appointment was made on 6th May 2015.
The Faculty provides its expert services to the national needs while giving the best services to the students. It will also help to establish good links to all possible directions to update the teaching with practical problems experienced by the industries and others.
Vesak Poya day event celebrated by the Faculty students
The faculty students organized a Dansala event during the Vesak Poya day on 4th May 2015. It was a group activity and almost all the students of the faculty were participated. These activities motivate excellent social harmony while creating good team work with social concern. They have prepared a hut at the A9 road at Ariviyal Nagar and donate ice cream to most of the devotees and passengers who are travelling through A9 road. Staff members of the Faculty of Engineering also participated to the event.
Students’ Social Event
First and second batch of students organized a social event at the Faculty of Engineering on 23rd April 2015. It was fantastic opportunity to the students express their talents to the staffs and other students. All students from the first and second batch participated in the event along with the staff members of the faculty. Many talented performances were staged and received a good applause from the audience. Continue reading
Donation of Solar panels and charging circuits to Faculty of Engineering, UOJ – by JLanka Pvt. Ltd.
Two solar panels and two charging circuit were donated by the JLanka Pvt. Ltd. on 22nd April 2015 to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna. This is to motivate the Research and Development in the field of renewable energy technologies and its applications. The faculty took immediate initiative and it has been allocated to an applied research student project on “Designing of an unmanned solar powered lawn mower”.
Workshop on Water Conflicts Resolution, Treatment & Desalination.
Department of Civil engineering, University of Jaffna organized a successful workshop on water conflicts resolution, treatment and desalination on 18th and 19th of April 2015 Workshop covered research areas of reverse osmosis, water treatment, conflict resolution, climate change and resilience of water bodies and few more related to water. This workshop was funded by Water and Society (WaSo) Project of University of Jaffna.
Sports activity between staffs and students
The first time in large scale, the sports activities were conducted on 1st April 2015 at the playground of the Kilinochchi premises of the University of Jaffna. It was excellent entertainment event between the staff and students. All the staff and students from both batches of the Faculty of Engineering were participated. Cricket and netball were conducted. Finally excellent performances of the young bloods of students were very well appreciated all the staff and few presents were awarded to the students.