SLASSCOM invited university lecturers for a “Quality Engineering Awareness Session” which was held on 6th April 2017 at Colombo. Three staff members from the Department of Computer Engineering participated the event: (i) Dr. A. Kaneswaran, Head of the Department of Computer Engineering, (ii) Dr. M. Siyamalan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering, (iii) Ms. J. Segar, Lecturer (Probationary), Department of Computer Engineering.
Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka (BUSL), Anuradhapura organized a 2 day workshop on Introduction to GIS using ArcGIS on 6th and 7th April 2017. Ven. Vice Chancellor of BUSL invited Mr. Saliya Sampath to conduct this workshop as a resource person.
Third year civil engineering students of university of Jaffna visited Victoria, Randenigala, Rantambe and Minipe Scheme under “CE 5040 – Hydraulic Engineering and design” subject in April 2017.
Nowadays power generation companies are moving to renewable energy based power generations. Even people have their own Solar photovoltaic (PV) cell based power generation system in homes. The new trend has come as the capital investment for these power generation has significantly reduced.
Three Mechanical and Process Engineering final year undergraduate students from the faculty got a golden opportunity to spend their 12 week 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.
The faculty buildings major works were completed by the Sanken Pvt Ltd in March 2017. This was bench mark days of the Faculty of Engineering. As a result the cultural event of warming up by boiling the milk was carried out on 25th March 2017. For this event the Vice Chancellor Vasanthy Arasaratnam and all the staff, students and well-wishers were participated. This was good event, which usually carried out before the opening ceremony of the buildings. The faculty and the University thanks the UGC, the Ministry and the Treasury for their team work and support on completing the major works of the buildings. Further thanks goes to Sanken Pvt Ltd also for their hard work completing the buildings work on time. The faculty stands with the administration building together with another four buildings for four departments to serve the best for the region and thus the country.
National Construction of Association of Sri Lanka Northern Branch (NCASL NB) together with the World University Services Canada – Sri Lanka (WUSC-SL) launched their Strategic Plan at a Gathering organized on 25th March 2017.
Eng. V. Regunathan (BScEng in 1965 graduated University of Ceylon, Fellow of the IESL and Charted Engineer) was appointed as the external member of the Faculty Board from March 2017.
A discussion was organized by the RDHS Dr. Karthigeyan between the Kilinochchi hospital doctors and many other well-wishers at the Faculty of Engineering. This meeting was held, on 22nd March, to get views on the second phase development of the Kilinochchi hospital development proposal. The finalize proposal was planned to be submitted to the Ministry of National Planning by the RDHS. It was very fruitful meeting with Dr. Sathyamoorthy, Director of Jaffna Teaching Hospital, Eng. N. Suthaharan Deputy Director Department of Irrigation, Chief Engineer Department of Buildings Northern Province, and few Faculty senior staff members.
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Jaffna organized third workshop on Introduction to GIS using ArcGIS on 20th and 21st March 2017. Workshop covered basic features of ArcGIS and some advanced analysis sections. This workshop was funded by Water and Society (WaSo) Project of University of Jaffna.