This lecture was focused to the final year students but not limited to. It was delivered by Mr. Shiromal Fernando (CEO CSEC Sri Lanka) on 21st July Friday 9.00am to 9.45am at Main Auditorium. The Department of Civil Engineering together with the carrier guidance cell of the faculty engineering thanking Mr. Shiromal Fernando for his valuable time on sharing his experience with our students.
Mr. Canagasaby Ramoshan, Engineer and Social Entrepreneur, CTO of iTEE Foundation in USA, visited to the Faculty with his colleges for initiating IT based industrial collaboration. He initiated this discussion, when the faculty team visited to the USA with the support from Care for Education. Mr. Ramoshan came together with his industrial partners to get connected with the Faculty of Engineering. Mr. C. Ramoshan has been CTO of the iTEE Foundation and an integral part of Yarl IT Hub – an IT incubator in Jaffna for the past 5 years. He is the Director of Engineering, Systems and Applications at Rambus, based in Sunnyvale, CA. He is also the CEO & Co-Founder of Vetri Holdings LLC, which “intends to become the de-facto integrator for the development of IT-based infrastructure in Sri Lanka”.
Dr. S.S. Sivakumar, Coordinator of WaterH project of UoJ and Mr. Saliya Sampath, Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, UoJ attended WaterH Erasmus+ 7th annual project meetings at Cherkassy, Ukriane from 9th – 11th July 2017.
Three Mechanical and Process Engineering final year undergraduate students from the faculty got a golden opportunity to spend their 12 weeks of special industrial training period as summer research interns at the (IITGN) Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. The expenses in India was totally sponsored by the IITGN. The students were engaged in this research internship program from the 27th of March to the 16th of June 2017. Those three students Mr. Nidershan and Mr. Neethan and Ms. Dinusha Wickramaarachchi had expressed their real experience at the IITGN during their training period. This presentation was organized by the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies to the students of the Faculty of Engineering on 10th July 2017. It was excellent to hear their experiences with excellent achievements and team work with IITGN students.
Dr. S. S. Sivakumar, Coordinator of WaterH project of UoJ and Mr. Saliya Sampath, Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, UoJ attended two seminars at Cherkasy State Technological University (ChSTU), Cherkassy, Ukraine on 10th July 2017 during WaterH 7th annual meeting. Details about the seminars are given below.
Workshop on “Internet of Things” was held at Department of Computer Engineering on 8th July 2017 with the support of IT and Communication Engineering Sectional Committee of the Institution of Engineering Sri Lanka (IESL). Objective of the workshop was to boost the understanding of engineering students on IoT and enhance the awareness of applications of IoT in various industries. More than 50 undergraduate students and staff members attended this workshop.
American embassy officers and the resource person visited to the Faculty as educational initiatives program on 7th July 2017. The officers’ team included Mr. James Russo (Counselor for Press, Academic, and Cultural Affairs from the American Embassy), Ms. Cheryl Edison (visiting American expert/resource person and Serial Entrepreneur and global strategist) and Ms. Sharmini Sinniah (Outreach Coordinator, Public Diplomacy Office of the American Embassy). Initially the team had a discussion with the Dean, Heads of the Departments and lecturers. It was good to learn the opportunities of number of possible services that the faculty students can be benefited from the embassy.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society of the University of Jaffna organized a talk on “The biological impact of Natural and Electrical Light on Human Health” on 6th of July 2017 from 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This talk was conducted by Dr. Uthayan Thurairajah, Researcher, Senior Electrical Engineer, Scientist, and Lecturer with over 20 years of experience in the Electrical Engineering and Lighting Design field. .
Dr. B. Ketheesan from Department of Civil Engineering, UoJ and Prof. Mrs. Kuganathan, from Department of Fishery Sciences, UoJ, attended the WaSo Post-Doctoral Program. The main venue for the WaSo Post-Doctoral Program was UiB Global, University in Bergen, Norway. It was conducted from 10th June to 5th July 2017 and other venues were University of Telemark, Bø and Oslo, Norway. The WaSo Post-Doctoral Program starts at the same time as the Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) 2017. Also, they attended NORHED and WaSo Annual Project Meetings in Telemark and Oslo from 1st July to 5th July 2017. This program was organized by Water Society and Climate Change project.
Dr. S.S. Sivakumar, Coordinator of WaSo project of UoJ and Mr. Saliya Sampath, Secretary of WaSo project of UoJ attended NORHED and WaSo Annual Project Meeting in Oslo from 1st July to 5th July 2017. Dr. B. Ketheesan from Department of Civil Engineering, UoJ and Prof. Mrs. Kuganathan, from Department of Fishery Sciences, UoJ, also attended the meeting while their postdoctoral program. There was a special session on the topic of ‘how to become ideal supervisor’ on 2nd and 3rd July 2017. There was a meeting for all the WaSo secretaries on 3rd July and Sampath attended the meeting from the University of Jaffna. Meeting was held at University of Telemark, Bø and NORAD Head Office at Oslo, Norway. This program was organized by Water Society and Climate Change project.