Day: November 1, 2017

Faculty staff participated to the 3rd international conference on dry zone agriculture, held on 1st and 2nd November 2017 at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna. Theme of the conference was “innovation towards sustainable agricultural productivity”. Conference was jointly organized by Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna and Ministry of Science, Technology and Research.
Faculty staff conduct research in collaboration with the staff from the Faculty of Agriculture. In this conference, Mr. Saliya Sampath and Dr. S.S. Sivakumar supervised one of the agricultural engineering student’s final year research together with the Agriculture staff Professor T. Mikunthan and Dr. M. Prabaharan. The student presented his research findings in the conference. The research was title on “Assessment of Rainfall stations for its suitability to represent Magalla reservoir catchment, Nikaweratiya”.

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The first career fair of the Engineering Faculty University of Jaffna was held on the 1st of November 2017 at IESL members lounge Colombo. The Chief Guest was the former President of IESL Eng. Jayavilal Meegoda and Guest of Honors IESL President and CEO. Thirteen local companies have expressed their willingness to participate in this historic event. The IESL student chapter President of Faculty of Engineering Mr. S. Nidershan welcomed the guests followed by the presentations from the industry and the students’ final year projects. Followed by the inaugural session, the companies conducted interviews until 4.30 p.m. The event was coordinated by a team members headed by Dr. Ravi Wijesiriwardana, Senior Lecturer attached to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He also served as the coordinator of the Career Guidance Cell of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna.

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