November 2017 – Page 2 – Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna

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.

Mr. Saliya Sampath is appointed as visiting lecture for the postgraduate program at the University of Peradeniya

November 5, 2017March 12, 2019FacultyOfEng

Sampath was appointed as visiting lecturer during October – November 2017, for the Postgraduate program of Water and Environment of Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. Sampath did lecture to postgraduate students, those who were following the subject on Computer applications in water and environmental engineering. This includes lecture and laboratory classes.

Faculty Staff attended the Dry Zone Agriculture Conference

November 1, 2017March 12, 2019FacultyOfEng

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”.

Faculty Staff attended the Dry Zone Agriculture Conference

November 1, 2017March 12, 2019FacultyOfEng

2017 Career Guidance Program of the Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna

November 1, 2017March 12, 2019FacultyOfEng

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.