Honorable Balasubramaniam Deniswaran, Northern Provincial Minister of Fisheries, Transport, Trade and Commerce, Rural Development, Road Development and Motor Traffic, placed foundation stone for the bus halts closer to the junction at the A9 and University Roads. Former Member of the Parliament, Deans and staff of Faculties of Agriculture and Engineering, Deputy Registrar Kilinochchi premises, and Assistant Registrars of the both faculties, Student Union leaders, Chief Engineers and Engineers from RDD and RDA, Managers of the Industries from MAs holding and Cargill food processing unit and Rural Development Society president of the Ponnagar area were participated. Continue reading
The NORHED Conference 2016 on “Knowledge for Development”
The Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Coordinator of the WaSo Asia Project Dr S.S. Sivakumar, from the Faculty of Engineering, Prof Meena Sentilnantanen from the Faculty of Science and Dr Anantini Nanthakumar from the Vavuniya Campus participated in this conference. This conference was organized by Norad from 6th to 9th June in Oslo, Norway. Continue reading
Newly appointed Principals, from Kilinochchi and Mullativu districts, visited to the Faculty of Engineering
Newly appointed principals visited to the Faculty of Engineering on 8th June to see the new development of technology together with the buildings of the Faculty of Engineering. This visit was organized by the District Secretariat office of Kilinochchi, covering both Kilinochchi and Mullativu Districts. There were totals of 35 participants including principals and planning officers from the Department of Education. Continue reading
Meeting to discuss mutually beneficial linkages between the Universities and educational institutions in India and Sri Lanka
Meeting was organized at the Indian High Commission of Sri Lanka at Colombo on 7th June 2016. There were few delegates from educational institutions from India and Sri Lanka. This meeting is organized as a follow-up event to the decision taken at the 9th Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) held on February 2016 at Colombo. This is to encourage mutually beneficial linkages between the Universities and educational institutions in India and Sri Lanka.
Students from Department of Physics visited to the Engineering
A study tour was organized, on 3rd June 2016, by the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science to experience the development of the roof top solar project and solar measuring station. A group of students headed by Professor P. Ravirajan visited to the Faculty. This is to share the knowledge and experience on roof top solar project and solar measuring station. The students visited to the project sites at the Faculty of Engineering. Further they requested for the data collected from the solar measuring station for their research work.
Eng. M. Vignarajah was recruited to the Department of Civil Engineering
Eng. M. Vignarajah obtained his B.Sc.Eng. degree with Second Class Honors from the University of Peradeniya in 2000. Also he earned M.Phil. degree from University of Peradeniya in 2005. Then he moved to United States and obtained M.Sc in Civil Engineering. He is currently reading for his Ph.D. while attached to the Department of Civil Engineering as Senior Lecturer Grade I.