Professor Alfred A. Christy who is from the Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, Norway, visited the Faculty of Engineering on 8th April 2016. He visited with his team to discuss the opportunities of pursuing postgraduate studies, staff exchange and possible research collaborations. It was an excellent discussion with the team of the staff from the University of Agder. Continue reading
Dr. Tony Sahama, who is the coordinator Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for the split program agreed upon between QUT and UGC, visited the Faculty of Engineering on 4thApril 2016. This visit was arranged to discuss about the opportunities of pursuing postgraduate studies at the QUT at Brisbane Australia. The University Grant Commission has signed an agreement with the QUT for motivating the young permanent academic staff to do the postgraduate studies at the QUT. There were collaborative fundings from both the UGC as well as QUT for this program. This has opened up an excellent opportunity for the young staff to complete their postgraduate studies with full funding. Continue reading
The WaterH Second Project meeting was held in Queen’s Hotel Kandy Sri Lanka from 30th March to 2nd April 2016. This meeting was scheduled as per the Partnership Agrееmеnt on Harmonizing water related graduate education (Water Harmony) with Еrasmus+, that supports projесt сooреration bеtwееn ten Universities in Norway, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, China and Sri Lanka.
Invitation for Bids – Supply of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Equipment: The bid has been called on 17th March 2016 to supply equipment for the Mechanical Engineering section of the Department of Interdisciplinary studies and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Both Heads of the Departments, Lecturers and Technical Officers were working very hard as excellent team to order the best standard equipment for the experiments to be conducted at the Faculty. Finally after a detailed study by experts’ teams, total of 72 million equipment purchase order was sent. Continue reading
A demonstration set-up of a biomass-dryer, donated by Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority has been successfully installed at the Faculty of Engineering on 5 th March 2016. This is based on the proposal on biomass demonstration system which had been developed by Ms. H.Krishnarajah and Dr. A. Anburuvel, under the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.
An introductory guest lecture by Mr. Mahalingasivam Yogavarathan from Norway on the activities of Engineers without borders and the opportunities they provide for Engineers to serve the community. This lecture was held on 3rd March 2016 at 4:15 pm in the Lecture Hall No 2, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Engineering, Ariviyal Nagar. Mr. Yogavarathan is a Senior Principal Lead with Aker Solutions AS-MMO. He has 24 years of experience on most aspects of the Oil Industry from upstream to fabrication of topside and maintenance downstream. Further he got multi-discipline experiences from R&D engineering, fabrication, installation, training, technical support and management. He is also a member of humanitarian agencies such as Engineers without boarders and Norway Cares
Dr. K. Chelvakumar presently serving as a visiting professor in IIT, Gandhinagar (IITGN) informed the Faculty of Engineering that there are possible collaborations with IIT (Gandhinagar). As to initiate the relationship and to explore the possible collaborations, during the visit of Prof. Amit Prashant, Dean of Academic Affairs, IITGN, We, Faculty of Engineering academics had a meeting with IITGN delegates on 26th February 2016 at Jungle Beach Resort, Trincomalee.
Third year civil engineering students of university of Jaffna visited Deduru Oya, Victoria, Randenigala, Rantambe and Minipe Scheme under “CE 5040 – Hydraulic Engineering and design” subject on 25th and 26th February 2016. They visited Deduru Oya reservoir headworks and canal system on 25th morning. They visited aqueduct and syphon on RB canal of Deduru Oya, Ridi Bendi Ella weir and some other canal structures.
Dr. Kasivisvanathan Chelvakumar visited the Faculty of Engineering on 23rd February 2016. He had discussions with the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Head/ Department of Interdisciplinary Studies regarding the services that he can render to the faculty and collaboration with IIT, Gandhi Nagar, where he is presently serving as a visiting professor.
The E-week organized by the students of the faculty of Engineering was held from 15th February to 21st of February in the faculty premises as planned. It was the first largest ever student event organized by the students of the faculty under the supervision of the faculty staff. All students of the faculty, academic and non-academic staff, the school students of the region and the neighboring Agriculture Faculty students took part in various events organized during the week. Continue reading