Students of E/13 batch are undergoing an industrial training program for 12 weeks from 11th May 2015 to 31st July 2015. It is part of their compulsory requirement for their curriculum. This program is scheduled after the third semester of study as a general training session.
Students obtained training from 20 reputed organizations in many part of the country including Colombo, Trincomalee, Jaffna, Batticaloa, Puttalum and Mihinthale. Continue reading
The first and second batch students, of the Faculty of Engineering, completed their third and first semesters of their studies on 10th May 2015. The first batch students will have their Industrial Training while the second batch will have three months of leave. Continue reading
Dr. S.S. Sivakumar is appointed as one of the member in the Cabinet Sub Committee on Economic Affairs under Prime minister’s office. This committee is to look into the capacity and capability of the Sri Lanka Railway (SLR) in track-laying meeting international standards. This appointment was made on 6th May 2015.
The Faculty provides its expert services to the national needs while giving the best services to the students. It will also help to establish good links to all possible directions to update the teaching with practical problems experienced by the industries and others.
The faculty students organized a Dansala event during the Vesak Poya day on 4th May 2015. It was a group activity and almost all the students of the faculty were participated. These activities motivate excellent social harmony while creating good team work with social concern. They have prepared a hut at the A9 road at Ariviyal Nagar and donate ice cream to most of the devotees and passengers who are travelling through A9 road. Staff members of the Faculty of Engineering also participated to the event.
First and second batch of students organized a social event at the Faculty of Engineering on 23rd April 2015. It was fantastic opportunity to the students express their talents to the staffs and other students. All students from the first and second batch participated in the event along with the staff members of the faculty. Many talented performances were staged and received a good applause from the audience. Continue reading
Two solar panels and two charging circuit were donated by the JLanka Pvt. Ltd. on 22nd April 2015 to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna. This is to motivate the Research and Development in the field of renewable energy technologies and its applications. The faculty took immediate initiative and it has been allocated to an applied research student project on “Designing of an unmanned solar powered lawn mower”.
Department of Civil engineering, University of Jaffna organized a successful workshop on water conflicts resolution, treatment and desalination on 18th and 19th of April 2015 Workshop covered research areas of reverse osmosis, water treatment, conflict resolution, climate change and resilience of water bodies and few more related to water. This workshop was funded by Water and Society (WaSo) Project of University of Jaffna.
The first time in large scale, the sports activities were conducted on 1st April 2015 at the playground of the Kilinochchi premises of the University of Jaffna. It was excellent entertainment event between the staff and students. All the staff and students from both batches of the Faculty of Engineering were participated. Cricket and netball were conducted. Finally excellent performances of the young bloods of students were very well appreciated all the staff and few presents were awarded to the students.
Professor Eric Feinblatt from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering of the University of Western Australia headed the team visited to the Faculty of Engineering University of Jaffna. He delivered an awareness talk to the students of the Faculty of Engineering on 26th March 2015 focusing on the students’ role on supporting the project to develop a community based waste recycling business in this region.
A debate team consists of four members from our faculty emerged as champions in a debate competition organized by Department of Law on 13th March 2015 at the main campus of the University of Jaffna. The guys went on to clinch the title by defeating the teams from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Management. The members of the debate team are Messrs. B. Nilakshan, R. Neethan, Mudiththa Kumarasri and Salinda Lankapriya. The faculty of engineering proudly congratulates them for such an incredible performance and wish them all the best.n