The 60kW roof top pilot solar power plant at the Faculty of Engineering was operated with grid connection net-metered operation from 14th October 2016. It consists of 55kW string converter configuration with three sets of converters and 5kW of micro converters configuration concept. Each panel is 250Watts and total of 240 panels were placed at the roof top of the first building of the Faculty of Engineering. Continue reading
Siam City Cement (Lanka) organized an inter university concrete mix design among all engineering faculties in Sri Lanka. Fifteen students took part in the competition: (i) Balasubramaniam Nilakshan, (ii) Abdul Jabbar Imran Khan, (iii) Ratnakumar Neethan, (iv) Tharshikka Vickneswaran, (v) Sivalingam Sivasankaranarayana, (vi) Kulathasan Thanushan, (vii) Dimuth Bopitiya, (viii) Jeyachandramoorthy Luxsan, (ix) Don Ashan Madushka Jeerasingha, (x) Manogaran Jegathees, (xi) Youganathan Yogananth, (xii) Sebamalai Sujithran, (xiii) Maarimuththu Mathivathanan, (xiv) Kirupairajah Thanushan and (xv) Asokarasa Janarth. Continue reading
Mr. T. Kankeyan, who is attached to the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies as lecturer (probationary) in Mechanical Engineering, got the two years full scholarship for his MPhil research studies. He got study leave from the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies from 3rdofOctober 2016. He is reading for his MPhil studies at Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka. Continue reading
Dr. Ketheesan joined the Department of Civil Engineering as Senior Lecturer from 3rd October 2016. He obtained his B.Sc (Eng) degree from the University of Peradeniya in Year 2007. Then, he received his Master’s degree (Environmental Engineering) and PhD (Civil engineering) from New Mexico state university, United States in Year 2009 and 2012, respectively. He worked as a Research fellow at Nanyang Environment and Water research institute (NEWRI), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from Jan 2013 to September 2016. He has over eight years of research experience in the field of environmental/water engineering with particular emphasis on waste/biomass to bioenergy technologies, integrated anaerobic digestion and membrane technology, microalgae to bio-diesel production and mathematical modeling of environmental bio processes.
Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka conducted its first robotic competition with the name of UWU ROBOT BATTLES 2016. The Robotic competition was conducted in two categories as SCHOOL CHALLENGE and OPEN CHALLENGE under two different tasks in robotics and it was island wide. Undergraduate students’ teams and any other institutions or school or industries’ teams were able to participate in the open challenge. It was to test the advanced skills of participants that were required to complete a higher task, in a challenging environment, in different ways.
One of the Australian-Sri Lankan University partnerships project is on developing community-based waste recycling businesses. This is one of the successful community oriented project, conducted at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna. A small scale demonstration was carried out on 23rd September 2016.
Mrs. J. Pratheeba, who is attached to the Department of Computer Engineering from 01.01.2016 as lecturer (probationary), got the three years full scholarship for her PhD research studies. She went on study leave from the Department of Computer Engineering from 22nd September 2016.She is reading for PhD at Department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Her research is on Bioinformatics with the supervision on ProfessorMahesan Niranjan. The faculty congratulate her for obtaining this highly competitive scholarship for her PhD research while wishing her for the best and solid PhD research outcome.
IESL Student Chapter, Ruhuna University organized and conducted CAD-EAGER 2016 workshop on 19th of September 2016 at the faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna in order to encourage the students to participate national level mechanical engineering design competition. 13/E and 14/E batch mechanical engineering students participated in the workshop and then the national level competition held at BMICH on 7th of October 2016. All three groups from the faculty of engineering, university of Jaffna participated got through preliminary screening and selected for the finals. In the final, one group got good score. The workshop and competition were very well appreciated by the participants. They told that it gave them a different level exposure and confidence.
Water Harmony Erasmus+ 4th project meeting was attended by 24 academic staffs from10 Universities including Norway, German, Poland, Ukraine, China and Sri Lanka. This was held at University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn in Poland from 15th till 18th September 2016. Continue reading
A training program was conducted by Ammonite company staff on their data logger installed at the Faculty of Engineering on 15th September 2016. This was coordinated by Resource Management Association (RMA) Pvt. Ltd., who was helping to install this solar measuring station at Kilinochchi with the support of Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SEA). There were more than 25 participants from Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority, Resource Management Association, Technical Officers, Researchers and Academic staff from the Faculties of Engineering and Science. Continue reading