achievements – Page 2 – Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna

Second batch of Kelani Sakthi program was completed and MOU was extended with Kelani Cable PLC

November 16, 2017April 18, 2019FacultyOfEng

The Kelani Sakthi program is delivering Electrician courses in Tamil Medium as free education system fully sponsored by the Kelani Cable PLC industry from June 2014. This is to empower community by producing knowledgeable electricians with skill on work. This was carried out for last three years after signing the first MOU on 17th June 2014 for three years. As this MOU was successfully completed in 2017 and the second batch of 24 students also completed their electrician program, a certificate awarding event was organized on 16th November 2017. On this date, the second phase of MOU was also signed to extend this program for next three years with the full sponsorship from Kelani Cable PLC Ltd. Annual budget of this program come about one million rupees as sponsor from Kelani Cable PLC Ltd. This event was blessed by the Professor Ratnam Vigneswaran, Vice Chancellor and Mr. Mahinda Sarnapala, CEO of the Kelani Cables PLC Ltd and his team. This whole program was coordinated and successfully conducted by Dr. T. Thiruvaran, coordinator of the Kelani Sakthi program and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Initiation of Incubation Center at the Faculty of Engineering by SLIC

November 13, 2017April 18, 2019FacultyOfEng

Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) Commissioner visited to the Faculty of Engineering on 13th November 2017. There were number of discussions and as a follow up action he visited to the Faculty of Engineering to discuss in detail on establishing the Incubator Center at Kilinochchi premises. He visited with other two officers of the SLIC. He spent the whole day in the Faculty of visiting to all the laboratory and discussing about the available equipment. Further he also see the possible space to start up the incubation center operations. As a result he approved to establish the incubation center at the Faculty of Engineering available places in the Department of Computer Engineering. In the evening meeting, the initial purchase of equipment was discussed in detail. Finally total of 10.85 million rupees worth equipment and furniture was approved to be purchased. While he approved, he requested to do all procedure and sent the purchase order to release the money from SLIC to the University of Jaffna. This whole program was coordinated and Incubator center proposal write up was done by Mr. R. Valluvan, the coordinator of the University Business Linkage Cell (UBLS) Engineering.

A team of students participated at the grand finals of the HackLN 2017

November 11, 2017March 13, 2019FacultyOfEng

A group of students with the name of “Team kavalance” represented the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna in a competition held at Kelaniya University. They were selected to compete at Grand finals on “HackLN 2017” hackthon competition. This was organized by the Kelaniya University in association with The Sri Lanka Inventors Commission. Competition was under “Hack the Future by improve solution in 2017 to make better life in 3017” topic.

Total of 60 teams were participated by representing 14 Universities. This was the first margin, the team crossed by becoming within the top 24, where it was selected for the semifinals. Within those 24 teams, in the second round competitions, the team became within the top 14, who was competing in Grand finals. The grand final competition was held on 11th November 2017 during the night at hackthon. For this competition two mentors from the Sri Lanka IT industries were helping the team of the students, who were Mr. Jerome Samarasinghe and Mr. Gayan Pathirage.