An introductory session for the IEEE society was organized in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna on 16th July 2016 from 9.00 am to 12.00 noon. Five members from IEEE Sri Lanka section were presented as the resource persons for the event including Mr. Tharindu De Silva, the Chairperson of the IEEE Membership Development in Sri Lanka.
Dr. S. Niranjan Visited to the Faculty of Engineering on 14th and 15th of July 2016. He had an interactive discussion with the staff members of the Department of Computer Engineering on Computer Engineering curriculum, laboratory development and Computer Engineering program accreditation process. He was a panellist in the discussion which was held on 15th of July 2016 with the student and the staffs of the Faculty of Engineering. His visit was a golden opportunity to share his thought with the students and the staff of the Faculty of Engineering.
Invitation for Bids – Supply of Computer, Electrical, Electronic & Lab Equipment to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna (UJ/F/PO/T/04/2016): The bid has been called on 13th July 2016 to supply equipment for the Electrical, Electronic and Computer Laboratory equipment. The young staff of the Departments, includes Senior Lecturers and Technical Officers were working very hard as excellent team to order the best standard equipment for the experiment to be conducted at the Faculty. Continue reading
The inaugural meeting of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society (EEES) was held on 13th July 2016 (Wednesday) at 4.30 pm at lecture hall 2 of faculty of engineering, University of Jaffna. Dean-Engineering Dr. A. Atputharajah, Head – Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dr. T. Thiruvaran, Head-Department of Computer Engineering Dr. A. Kaneswaran, lecturers Dr. V. Cynthujah, Mr. R. Valluvan, Mr. S. Thanenjayan, Ms. S. Jananie, Mrs. P. Jeyananthan and students from department of electrical and electronic engineering participated.
Detailed and comprehensive curriculum of the Faculty of Engineering is designed and approved by the Senate, University of Jaffna held in July 2016. This was carried out for last three years and finally come to the end. There have been many leading experts from local and foreign universities; and from the industries, helping us to design the curriculum. Dean, heads of the department and the lecturers took diligent care and effort to develop the curriculum to cater the needs of the present needs of engineering industry. The development of curriculum is based on Outcome Base Education (OBE) conforming to Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) requirements (National Standard for Engineering Education), Washington Accord requirements (International Standard for Engineering Education) and Sri Lanka Quality Framework (SLQF) requirements under the category of Bachelor Honours Degrees.
Students from the Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna, resented five projects as their findings to the IESL UIY competition. This is the national level event organized on 8th July 2016 by the IESL head office in Colombo. This was a very good exposure to the Faculty students on mixing with other Faculty students while demonstrating their findings.
The Institution of Engineering Sri Lanka Northern Provincial Chapter organized a field visit on 6th July to the RO plant at Delft. This is to demonstrate this technology on water purification. Many of the Faculty students and staff participated together with the Engineers. It was an excellent trip while mixing with many professionals in the field of Engineering. Continue reading
Professor DhayalanVelauthapillai visited to the faculty on 2nd July to have a discussion on future collaborations specially on submitting a NOPART proposal. Dhayalan is a professor from the Faculty of Engineering and Business Administration of the Bergen University College in Norway. The Faculty of Science had already long past historical collaboration with Professor Dhayalan. It was excellent discussions on extending his collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering too. He also see through the facilities available at the Faculty of Engineering including the roof top solar system.
Dr. Sathiparan obtained his B.Sc.(Eng) degree from the University of Moratuwa in Year 2002. He received his M.Eng and Ph.D degree from University of Tokyo in Year 2005 and 2008, respectively. He researched in the field of seismic retrofitting masonry structures. He continued this research in the same university as Post-doctoral researcher and JSPS Fellow from October 2008 to March 2011. Before he joined the University of Jaffna, he worked at University of Ruhuna as a Senior Lecturer from Feb 2012 to June 2016.