Mr. Erwin Schulz, Director of the Sri Lanka German Training Institute at the Kilinochchi and his staff members visited to the Faculty of Engineering to meet the dean and the staff. The meeting was held on 17th May at the Faculty Board room. It was great pleasure that the both institutes top management staff members met together and discuss about the possible collaborations. The Acting Dean Dr. Anburuvel welcomed the team from SLGTI headed by Mr. Erwin. It was stressed that as these two institutions are very closer to each other in the neighborhood, it can be opened up many possibilities of cooperation for the mutual benefit of both institutions. This meeting has provided a great opportunity to both group of professionals of getting to know each other as well as exploring possible fields of cooperation. There were altogether 7 members visited from SLGTI to and the faculty heads and staff members participated in this discussion. The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor Atputharajah express his thanking message to Mr. Erwin Schulz and Mrs. Dayanthi from the SLGTI for organizing this meeting, which will bring number of collaborations between both institutions.
Fourth WaSo Workshop on Introduction to GIS using ArcGIS.
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Jaffna organized fourth workshop on Introduction to GIS using ArcGIS on 16th and 17th May 2017. Workshop covered basic features of ArcGIS and some advanced analysis sections. This workshop was funded by Water and Society (WaSo) Project of University of Jaffna.
Workshop conducted on “The Role of the University in promoting an Innovative Culture”
Objective: To promote collaborative research towards sustainable economic development.
Target Group: University academic staff and research and development officers in the region involved areas related to Science, Mathematics, and Technology.
Faculty opens testing facilities to the industries
The faculty is grown up with about 15 PhD holders is different disciplines. As a result it has now open possible testing and other services to the industries. For example testing of mechanical properties of earth concrete blocks is possible with the Faculty, where it can serve the best to do the testing in near locations of Northern Province. This has been open up based on the several requests from the industries. For more information on this either Heads of the Departments or Coordinator of the University Business Linkage (UBL) may be contacted. The UBL is in the process of establishing and this unit is going to be dedicated to link the industry and academics together for the best services to the nation.
Mr. Sampath delivered lectures at the Faculty of Engineering University of Peradeniya
Mr. D.S. Sampath, delivered guest lecturers to postgraduates and undergraduates of Faculty of Engineering University of Peradeniya. Dr. A.G.H.J. Edirisinghe, Head, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya invited Mr. Sampath to deliver guest lectures on “Open source GIS and applications using QGIS”.
IIT Gandhinagar expects to see more students from Sri Lanka
Gandhinagar: In what could be marked as the beginning of a strong relationship between Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and University of Jaffna, three students from the Sri Lankan University have come to IITGN. They will spend their entire ten week summer break at IITGN carrying out research under the supervision of IITGN professors
Dr. Anburuvel presented at Jaffna Science Association
The Jaffna Science Association invites professionals to deliver technical talk for the development of the region as well as transfer of technology. Dr. A. Anburuvel, Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies Senior Lecturer of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering invited to deliver a talk on transportation. The title of the talk is “ORIGIN – DESTINATION TRAFFIC DEMAND – IMPORTANCE, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS”. The talk was very well done on 3rd May 2017 and it was chaired by Professor A. Atputharajah, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
Mechanical, Manufacturing and process laboratory of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies is moving to its permanent building
The mechanical, manufacturing and process engineering section have been functioning at temporary place since start of the faculty in February 2014. In May 2017 this section got the permanent buildings completed. The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies have been allocated spaces in two places. One is at mechanical, manufacturing and process engineering building for mechanical section and a few rooms in the first floor of the administration block for mathematics and complementary studies. Head of the department’s room is also located in the administration block.
Professor Ratnam Vigneswaran assumed the duty of the Vice Chancellor, University of Jaffna
The new Vice Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, Professor Ratnam Vigneswaran has assumed his duties on 1st May 2017 at the Vice Chancellor’s office, University of Jaffna. He is the 8th Vice Chancellor of the University and takes over from former Vice Chancellor Professor Ms. Vasanthy Arasaratnam. Former Vice Chancellors, Council Members, Deans, Professors, Heads of the Departments and academic and non-academic staff members participated to this event.
Tamil Engineers Foundation donated 25 drawing boxes to the first year students
The Tamil Engineers Foundation, which is also called as Engineering Charity Fund – Australia, always helping the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna. The faculty increase the intake from 50 to 75 students. As a result the increased 25 students need to be empowered with additional drawing boxes. Therefore based on the request from the president of the Engineering Students Union to the President of the Tamil Engineering Foundation Eng. Thev Theiventhiram, this donation was initiated.