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Educational training for school teachers on Clean Energy Technology in Jaffna District

November 18, 2017March 13, 2019FacultyOfEng

The University of Jaffna and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Jaffna Science Association and Provincial Department of Education, Northern Province intend to provide educational training on Clean Energy Technologies to the GCE (A/L) students in Science and Technology streams in the Jaffna District under HRNCET-CBERC project. The resource persons for this workshop was from the Faculties of Science and Engineering. This was held on 18th November 2017.
This outreach activity is supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Sri Lanka under ‘Capacity Building and Establishment of a Research Consortium in Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Technologies (CBERC)’ project. This whole event was coordinated by the Faculty of Science Senior Staff headed by Professor P. Ravirajan and Professor Mena Senthilnanthanan in collaboration with the Jaffna Science Association. For more information, please refer: http://project.jfn.ac.lk/hrncet/

Training of Trainers – School teachers program on clean energy technologies

November 18, 2017April 18, 2019FacultyOfEng

The University of Jaffna and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Jaffna Science Association and Provincial Department of Education, Northern Province intend to provide educational training on Clean Energy Technologies to the GCE (A/L) students in Science and Technology streams in the Jaffna District under HRNCET-CBERC project.
As a result on 18th and 19th of November, the Training of Trainers program was conducted at the main premises of the University of Jaffna. This was coordinated by Professor Ravirajan. This was supported by two resource persons from the Faculty of Engineering: Professor A. Atputharajah, Dr. B. Ketheesan and Dr. A. Anburuvel together with other resource persons from the Faculty of Science. This was an excellent educational training program for school teachers on Clean Energy Technologies in Science and Technology streams in the Jaffna District.
This was very well coordinated by Professor Ravirajan and his team where Dr. A. Anburuvel supported as Deputy Coordinator from Faculty of Engineering for these activities.

Faculty staff attended the WaSo Asia Africa Joint meeting at Ethiopia

November 17, 2017March 13, 2019FacultyOfEng

Dr. S.S. Sivakumar, coordinator of WaSo project of UoJ and Mr. D.S. Sampath, Secretary of WaSo project attended WaSo Asia and Africa joint meeting at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia from 17th -19th November 2017. Meeting hosted by Department of Political Science and International Relations, Addis Ababa University of Ethiopia. Meeting held at Adulala Resort, Bishoftu, Ethiopia. This meeting was focused on followings.

Administration issues
NORAD annual meeting preparation
Curricula development
Project implementation plan
Sustainability of WaSo – during and beyond

Faculty staff attended the WaSo Scientific Seminar at Ethiopia

November 16, 2017March 13, 2019FacultyOfEng

Dr. S.S. Sivakumar, coordinator of WaSo project of UoJ and Mr. D.S. Sampath, Secretary of WaSo project attended WaSo scientific seminar at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia on 16th November 2017. Workshop hosted by Department of Political Science and International Relations, Addis Ababa University of Ethiopia.
Dr. Sivakumar delivered paper presentation on “Freshwater Harvesting in Northern Sri Lankan Lagoons by Continuous Flushing of Mainland Rivers.” Engineering science and Technology session. Prof. S. B. Weerakoon chaired the session.
Mr. Sampath delivered paper presentation on “Ancient hydraulic civilization at Deduru Oya river basin, Sri Lanka” at Social and Political Science Session. Prof. Kasuvan chaired the session.

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.