Volume 02 - Issue 01

SAITM E-Fac
News Bulletin
July 2012
Volume 02 - Issue : 01
Faculty of Engineering
South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine
P.O Box 11, Millennium Drive, Off Chandrika Kumaratunga Mawatha,
Malabe, Sri Lanka.
Tel : (+94) 11 241 3351
(+94) 11 241 3331
E-mail : efac@saitm.edu.lk
newsletters@saitm.edu.lk
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SAITM Faculty of Engineering - Industry
Consultative Board
FoE welcomes new Lecturers in Mechatronics
& Civil Engineering
Dr. Thilini Rajakaruna has been appointed as a Lecturer
in Electronics and Telecommunications of the Department
of Mechatronics under the faculty of engineering effective
from 1st January 2012. Dr. Thilini Rajakaruna received the
BSc Engineering degree (First Class Hons.) in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka in 2007. She was with the IP and Broadband
Division of Sri Lanka Telecom as an IP Networks Engineer
Dr. Thilini Rajakaruna
from 2007 to 2008.
B.Sc. Eng (Hons)(Peradeniya) ,
PhD (Surrey, UK)
In October 2008, she was awarded the Overseas Research
Lecturer in Electronics and
Telecommunications
Scholarship (ORSAS) by the Higher Education Funding Council of
England to pursue her Ph.D. at the Research Centre for Vision Speech and Signal
Processing (CVSSP), attached to University of Surrey, UK. She worked on adaptive
video coding techniques to facilitate content-based video applications. She received
her Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering in November 2011 from Faculty of Electronic
Engineering and Physical Sciences, at the University of Surrey.
Dr. Kushan Kalmith Wijesundara has been appointed as
a Lecturer in Civil & Infrastructure Engineering of the
Department of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering under the
faculty of engineering effective from 3rd April 2012. Dr.
Kushan Wijesundara received the Bachelor Degree in
Science specialized in Civil Engineering from the University
of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2003. He was awarded a
scholarship by the institute of advanced study in Pavia, Italy
Dr. Kushan Kalmith
to pursue M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the ROSE School attached to
Wijesundara
B.Sc. Eng (Hons), MSc (Pavia,Italy),
the University of Pavia, Italy. He worked on shear strength of
PhD (Pavia,Italy)
Lecturer in Civil &
precast pre-stressed concrete hollow core slabs under
Infrastructure Engineering
supervision of Professor Michel Collins for his Master dissertation.
He received his M.Sc. specialized in Earthquake Engineering in May 2005. In the
same year, he enrolled in the Ph.D. Program in Earthquake Engineering at the same
institute. He works on the Direct Displacement Based Seismic Design of
Concentrically Braced Frame with RHS Shape Brace under supervision of Dr. R.
Nascimbene and Professor G.M Calvi. He received his Ph.D. in December 2009. He
served as a researcher at the European Centre for Training and Research in
Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) in Pavia, Italy from December 2009 to May
2011 and at BRGM (French Geological Survey), Natural Risks Division in Orleans,
France from August, 2011 to March, 2012. He has seven international Journal
publications and twenty international conference publications. He is also a reviewer
of Journal of Engineering Structures. Furthermore, he has been responsible for
coordination of many local and international projects in the area of nonlinear finite
element modelling of structures in last few years.
Industry
Consultative Board (ICB) consists of industry experts &
academic staff, both permanent and visiting lecturers. Industry experts
are selected from private and state sector Engineering organizations in
Sri Lanka .Participants are considered as extended faculty members of
SAITM - Faculty of Engineering.
ICB Program was drawn up to have joint research, industry training,
resource sharing, mentoring and employment opportunity for the
graduates of the SAITM and to obtain advice to fine tune curriculum to
suite the future needs of industry.
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SAITM RSEA 2012
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SAITM holds International Research
Symposium on Engineering Advancements
Continuing in its bold march towards
becoming one of the esteemed higher
educational institutes in Engineering in
the Asian region, South Asian Institute
of Technology and Medicine (SAITM)
faculty of Engineering has concluded a
highly successful Research
Symposium on Engineering
Advancements (SAITM RSEA 2012) recently at SAITM Auditorium,
Malabe. Following its ground breaking historical inaugural Research
symposium (SAITM RSEA 2011) in May last year, this year’s event
signifies the continuation of a very important event to be held annually.
Focused on bringing together the research community in Engineering,
Industries, Academics, Engineering professionals and students into a
forum which would provide unique opportunity for all stakeholders
involved in furthering their knowledge base, not to mention the
invaluable exposure the students as young undergraduates would get.
The event, with presentations covering areas of Electrical, Electronics
and communications, Mechatronics and Automation, water and
Environment, Geotechnical and Soil Mechanics, Computer Science and
ICT, Structural and transportation, Town Planning, urban management,
Technology based education and project Management consisted of
over 40 research papers from Sri Lanka and abroad, all of which were
technically reviewed through a panel consisting of prominent
academics in Engineering. A significant feature is the substantial
number of papers presented by researchers from state universities in
Sri Lanka auguring well for the public – private partnership in
engineering advancements into the future.
The keynote addresses were made by Prof. Matthew Dailey, School of
Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT),
Thailand – a prominent scholar and academic in Robotics and by Prof. (
Mrs.) Chintha Jayasinghe, department of Civil Engineering, University of
Moratuwa – a scholar and academic who has been into numerous
research projects in Civil Engineering and who is also the Director,
Postgraduate studies at University of Moratuwa.
The expert panel consisted of three highly acclaimed and well known
academics, Prof. P.B.R. Dissanayake (University of Peradeniya), Prof.
E.M.N. Ekanayake (University of Peradeniya) and Dr. Cyril Kariyawasam
(University of Ruhuna).
An extensive poster presentation was made by the undergraduates of
SAITM to showcase the projects and products they were developing at
the venue running concurrently with the presentation of proceedings. As
an integral part of the programme, a technical tour had been organized
where the participants were taken through a guided tour of the Colombo
Port Expansion Project where the participants were exposed to the latest
development work at South Asia’s premier port courtesy of Sri Lanka
Ports Authority.
Considering the impact the first research symposium had on the
undergraduates of SAITM faculty of Engineering with many embarking
on research projects and participating at local and foreign conferences
and symposiums, the faculty is taking steps to continue the event at an
annual basis which would give a tremendous boost to the students to
strengthen their research capabilities, molding themselves into
complete engineering professionals.
The event is also encouraged to the hilt by AIT, which is the university to
which SAITM faculty of Engineering BSC degree programmes are
affiliated and which is also the degree awarding institute, world famous
for its research activities and post graduate programmes.
SAITM RSEA 2012 was sponsored by Maga Construction Ltd,
Consultant Engineers and Contractors (CEC) Ltd, in the platinum
category, Bank of Ceylon, Nawaloka Constructions in the Gold category.
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SAITM Mechatronics Engineering students visit
Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) Workshop
SAITM FoE - Sports Highlights
Outstanding Achievements of Students
S ahan
Rathnayake from batch_3 (2011/2012)
As an integral part of their degree course, Mechatronics students of
Mechatronics Engineering represented Sri Lanka
Badminton Mens Singles, in Universal Peace Games held
in Seoul, Korea in March 2012 and won the Bronze medal.
Batch 2 participated in an industrial visit to Sri Lanka Railways (SLR).
SLR is a government department functioning under the Ministry of
Transport and is the only rail transport organization in the country. The
students were taken through the main repairing bays allowing them to
see the operations of the locomotive and carriage repairing, iron
moulding unit to experience how moulding is done, machine shop to see
the CNC and other types of machines and were given an insight to
quarrying, supply chains and peripheral services which would help them
good stead in linking theoretical knowledge they gain at lectures to
practical use at industry. SAITM appreciates the support received from
Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) for this field visit.
Sahan Rathnayake
Nuwan
Hettiarachchi from batch_2 (2010/2011)
Mechatronics Engineering won a gold medal in the
Badminton Mens Singles event and a bronze medal in the
team event at the UMiSF international badminton
tournament held at University of Moratuwa, representing
SAITM in 2011. Nuwan is currently a national pool player.
Nuwan Hettiarachchi
FoE Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Laboratory expansion
Department of Mechatronics Engineering under the faculty of Engineering,
laboratory facilities have been greatly expanded during last three months. Further
new experiments in the area of electromagnetism & optics are introduced.
For more details, Call:
(+94) 11 241 3331, (+94) 11 241 3393, (+94) 77 474 7081, (+94) 77 383 7373
(+94) 71 621 2121 or apply online
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SAITM Faculty of Engineering - Guest Lecture
Sessions on Mech’/Civil Engineering Practices
SAITM Engineering Students are on Industrial
Training Phase I
A
series of guest lectures has been organized by the faculty in
The students of Batch two of the Faculty of Engineering who have
collaboration with the departments of Civil and Infrasturcture
Engineering and the Department of Mechatronics Engineering , to
provide an in-depth understanding on various disciplines of real world
engineering practices to students incorporating dedicated academics
and experts in the industry. Three guest lecturers have already been
conducted by the following distinguish academics and industrialists.
completed the fourth semester, commenced the first phase of the
industrial training program on 4th of June 2012 for a period of three
months. Number of organizations which are the pioneers in the industry
in Sri Lanka were selected for the training placements.
All the organizations which were selected for the Civil Engineering
program are the registered organizations under the Institute for
Construction Training and Development (ICTAD). ICTAD is the approved
organization of the Sri Lankan government for national registration and
grading scheme for construction contractors in Sri Lanka.
The selected list of construction organizations is as follows.
Civil & Infrastructure Engineering
Access Pvt Ltd.
4
Consultant Engineers and Contractors Pvt Ltd. (CEC) 4
4
Sierra Civil Engineering Pvt Ltd 4
Tudawe Brothers (Pvt) Ltd
4
Oriental Consultants Co., LTD 4
International Construction Consortium (ICC)
4
Southern Transport Development Project (South Section)
4
CML MTD Construction Ltd 4
Sanken Construction Pvt. Ltd
4
Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation
Guest Lectures conducted at SAITM
4
“Overview of Water Supply in Sri Lanka” By: Mr. W.B.G Fernando,
Deputy General Manager, National Water Supply & Drainage Board (NWSDB),
Welikada Plaza, Rajagiriya.
4
“Development of an Engineering career in the context of future world”
By: Dr. Daya Dayawansa,
Director Research and Design, Maintenance Technology
Institute, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Monash University, Australia.
4
“Art of Engineering” By: Dr. Cyril Kariyawasam,
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering,
University of Ruhuna.
4
“Industrial Training Placement” By: Mr. B. Bernard Perera,
Dr. Cyril Kariyawasam
Training consultant, Technical TrainingCenter,
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering,
University of Ruhuna.
Lanka Electricity Company (Pvt) Ltd, Ja-Ela.
Mechatronics Engineering
4
Amsafe Engineering 4
Blue Scope Steel 4
Brandix Lanka Pvt Ltd
4
Ceylon Cold Stores PLC 4
Ceylon Knit Trend (Pvt) Ltd
4
Ceylon Tobacco Company 4
DIMO - Construction Machinery
4
Dipped Products PLC 4
Colombo Dockyard PLC 4
Etisalat
4
Flintech Engineering 4
Holcim Cement 4
Komadu Inc 4
Loadstar
4
MAS Holdings 4
MELCO Engineering 4
Mobitel 4
Orange Electrics
4
Serendib Flour Mills 4
Sri Lankan Airlines 4
Water Supply & Drainage Board
The evaluation of the industrial training attachment is conducted based
on the records of the daily diary provided to the students at the
commencement of the training program, comments of the interim
supervision made by the lecturers in the Faculty of Engineering, SAITM
and based on the final report which should be submitted after
completion of the training period.
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