The Young Professionals of the IET Sri Lanka is a organization which conducts various events for the young Engineers & the undergraduates in Sri Lanka to enhance their careers. It also provides a forum for its members to update their knowledge in areas of rapidly changing technologies through seminars, guest lectures, field visits and technical conferences & etc. The Flagship event of IET YP Sri Lanka, The Annual Technical Conference "
Present Around The World" was held for the 10th Successful year in University of Moratuwa on
December 17th 2011 with the participation from the three Universities Moratuwa, Peradeniya & Ruhuna as well as representatives from the Industry. The main objective of this Conference was to give an opportunity for the researchers in the Engineering disciplines to present their research outcomes and share knowledge between academic and industrial professionals.
There were 40 papers published during the conference, where 25 of them were presented in front of a jury consist of academia from the 3 universities. The papers were mainly showcasing the Final Year Projects & Researches done in the fields of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering. Event was graced by present IET Sri Lanka Network Chairman Eng (Mr.) Rohan Senavirathne as the chief guest.
Winners:
1st place was from university of Peradeniya
title: “Designing of a Sensor System for Non Invasive Cross Sectional Imaging Using Electric capacitance Tomography”,
presented by:
M.G.C.P. Mediwaththe,
S. E. Wijethilake,
K. E. Wijethilake,
D. B.W. Abeywardana
supervised by Dr. J. V. Wijayakulasooriya & Dr. D.Uduwawala
2nd place was from University of Moratuwa
tilte: “Low Cost Eye Tracking System”,
presented by :
D.P.Nagasinghe,
A.P.A Perera,
K.A.M.N. Pathiratne,
C.D.Pathirawasam,
W.G. Pawithra
supervised by:
Dr.Asanka Rodrigo.
3rd place was also from university of Moratuwa
titled: “Location Demystifier for Tourists”
presented :by E.Waruni Lanka Udayangi
supervised by: Eng (Mr). D.K Withanage.
Winning team represented Sri Lanka in this years IET PATW South Asian Finals in India, and they won the 1st place.Winners will represent IET PATW World Finals held in UK .At the end of the event
there was a general discussion where the event was highly appreciated by the participants.
Reference: Event Report by Thilina Rajapaksha,Senior Editor,IET YP Moratuwa Chapter