A workshop was conducted by the Australian-Sri Lankan University partnerships project on developing community-based waste recycling businesses. This was coordinated by Dr. Randika Jayasinghe from the project while Dr. V. Cynthujah coordinated from the Faculty of Engineering.
Students’ Projects were presented at the IESL YMS 2015 sessions
The Young Members Section (YMS) is one of the program included in the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka’s 109th Annual sessions. This was held on 21st October 2015 at the IESL head office in Colombo. Among the 17 papers presented, in this IESL YMS 2015, from Universities as well as Industries, two papers were from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna. The papers were presented by (i) Mr. S. Sangar supervised by Ms. H. Krishanarajah and Dr. K. Velayuthamurthy and (ii) Mr. B. Shanthigan, coauthored by Ms. V. Tharshikka and supervised by Mr. S. Thananjeyan and Dr. V. Cynthujah. These were the first two papers from the undergraduates of the Faculty presented in a technical session. The faculty congratulates the success of these two students with their volunteer based projects under supervision of the Faculty staff members.