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CPD program for Technical Officers

All the technical officers of the Faculty of Engineering were given one full day training on few specific equipment with the support of the suppliers. This training program was coordinated by the Assistant Registrar Engineering together with the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This program was also open to the laboratory attendant of the Faculty. After having a full day of sessions, to evaluate the learning level, a written examination was conducted by the Assistant Registrar together with the Industry experts, who were the resource persons of the training program. This examination was conducted on 28th November 2017. All the technical officers participated to this examination too. Based on their performance, a “participant certificate” or “successfully completed certificate” were given to the participants.

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Students’ field trip – coastal engineering

The students of E15 batch, who offer the BSc. Eng course majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, are required to cover few hours of visit to the field. They had recently gone to the beach of Mullaitivu, Trincomalee and Mannar to view the morphology of the beach, wave propagation and to learn beach profiling, in November, 2017. They will embark on a trip around Sri Lanka, visiting different beach morphology and coastal structures and conduct beach profiling and sediment analysis as part of the curriculum, towards the end of the semester.

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Staff presented their research at the National Energy Symposium

The five mechanical engineering students, S. Nidershan, W.A. Dinusha, B.G.D.H. Bopitiya, R. Neethan and N.G.W.M. Asiri Roshan Bandara Wijethilaka along with staff members Ms. H. Krishnarajah and Ms. R. Ramachandran attended the National Energy Symposium of Sustainable Energy Authority held on 19th November 2017 at BMICH, Colombo. They presented their research works on the title “Design of a control system to optimize power consumption in air conditioners to satisfy human thermal comfort – Stereo Vision Approach” and “Assessment of Performance and Development of Biomass Fired Cabinet Dryers for Improved Energy Efficiency” this conference. These research works are based on their study from undergraduate at Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna.

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

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/

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Training of Trainers – School teachers program on clean energy technologies

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.

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Faculty staff attended the WaSo Scientific Seminar at Ethiopia

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.

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

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.

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Faculty Staff attended the Dry Zone Agriculture Conference

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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Faculty Staff attended the Dry Zone Agriculture Conference

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

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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