ReadPART IPART IIPART IIIPART IVThe Exhibition we had in the Final Year to commemorate 25 years of Engineering Education was a welcome diversion. As students we did lot of hard work to boost the image of the Laboratories and the Faculty with creative posters, decorations and write-ups for the Testing Equipment. Prof S Mahalingam- the great man that he is- ...
A Professor and a GentlemanA professor and a gentleman ‐ truly was he,A man of true compassion ‐ who else would kinder, be?Havin’ mastered his art with greatest passion ‐ renowned became heIn world’s great missions, ev’n a minnow ‐ who has the luck to be?Hailing from, though, humble origins ‐ with loads of determination,Rising o’er highest mountain’s peak ‐ in the world of vibration Emerging from the lit’le‐known Ceylon ‐ to heights of inter‐nationAll ...
Dear eFacMemories readers,I have excellent news for you!Sisira Adikari [E/83/008] is going to write his memories of the eFac days @ Peradeniya.I have received a document running for seven pages with over 3000 words for Sisira. His article focuses
Published in www.lakbimanews.lkThere is no one mould into which all great men fit; some are remembered for an achievement or a contribution that changed the world, others for the influence they had on those who came in touch with them, still others for style, or honour, or for a job well done over a lifetime. In the narrower ambit of ...
I am writing this to extend my heart felt gratitude to one of the best teachers I had at Pera eFac, Prof. Sivasegaram or Siva as he was popularly known.Comparison with CLVJ would have made him shine brighter but even on absolute terms he was such a friendly man from whom I could ask some clarification even on a corridor ...
ReadPART IPART IIPART IIIPART IVPART VWell, Friends, I can go on writing. But I think time has come to say Good Bye and to break this manuscript. Before I do that let me pause and quickly revisit those days again, just to check that I have not overlooked or missed anything obvious. Many more incidents, places, faces, events come flooding ...
READ: Parts I & II - Paving the Way to Clear Applied Electricity BacklogPart III - Aftermath of the boycottPart IV - Student clash on the final dayPart V: RevengeThroughout my time from first year to the departure from the faculty (approximately
Professor S Sivasegaram has sent us the following eMail.Dear Editor I think that some of the recent articles are in bad taste. There is a tendency to settle old scores with people. Several of the personal comments are inaccurate and suggest dubious mot
ReadPART IPART IIPART IIIBy the beginning of the third year there were many in Akbar Nell Hall who chose to move out from the “dry zone” to the “wet zone”. I suppose the opportunity to meet a wide range of students from other faculties particularly the girls was the most obvious attraction for the shift. Having not lived on the ...
Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources - Professor E O E Pereira Memorial Lecture (2014) Speaker: S B Weerakoon Professor in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering University of Peradeniya
Growing up in the Lower Ranks by S. MahalingamPart I - The New FacultyThe event was not given any publicity in the press as the university authorities did not consider it an occasion for drum-beating. It was regarded as just another step in the advancement of higher education. The Faculty of Engineering was born on 1 July 1950 after a ...
Part I – IntroductionAim of this article is, as a first hand witness and victim, to outline events happened at the Peradeniya Engineering Faculty in 1986 leading to take away (or given away) Final Examination in Engineering Part I, Applied Electrici
Read PART-Iby Maximus Jayantha Anandappa (1972-75 batch)If Machine Drawings were a mystery, then the Workshop Practicals was penance. Foundry, Carpentry and the Lathe Machine were not my cup of tea- though the workshop-staff was exceptionally supportive and sympathetic (when we messed up or broke hack-saw blades) like the down to earth lecturer Mr S Amaradasa. It always mystified me that ...
Continued from PART IV: Life after E-facFINAL EPISODE - Some horrible crimesNearly two decades or two generations after my self-proclaimed defeat, the situation is likely to have vastly improved and some of you young guns reading this account might
(Published in: http://transcurrents.com/news-views/archives/6425#more-6425)‘A biography by its very nature’, writes Michael Colin Cooke, in setting the scene for the Bopage Story, ‘reveals a life not only of an individual but of the society and times of that individual.’ A person’s life story, however, can be told in different ways. A biography may be rich in minutiae and fail to go sufficiently ...
Growing up in the Lower Ranks by S. MahalingamRead: Part I - The New FacultyPart II - Our First HomePart III - Early years of the University of CeylonIn 1950 the University of Ceylon was spread across the city at three centres. The main body of the University was at Thurstan Road, its seat being the old Ceylon University College ...
It seems that the first batch of engineers to graduate from the Peradeniya Engineering Faculty has been the batch entered the University in 1961 when the Faculty of Engineering was still a part of the university campus in Colombo.This students, in their final year, have moved to the current faculty premises at Peradeniya and have graduated in 1965.The following article, ...
This is an open invitation to all Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Graduates.Share your memories!Write to us:efacmemories@gmail.comIn the meantime, read following aricles already published in this site.1. It's time by Rasika Suriyaarachchi2. Engineering and Politics by Vickramabahu Karunaratne3. Oviravu (One night) by S. Sivasegaram4. Just before the stoam by E/81/2145. Sisira Adikari (E/83) writes his memories6. Memories about late Professor Bartholomeusz7. My ...
Growing up in the Lower Ranks by S. MahalingamRead: Part I - The New FacultyPart II - Our First HomePart III - Early years of the University of CeylonPart IV - Working in the FacultyPart V – A change of departmentI began my teaching career in the Department of Civil Engineering and was assigned the usual quota of supporting duties ...
(Published at: www.lakbimanews.lk)All of us who were students of Batho in the Faculty of Engineering Peradeniya were deeply affected when we got the following message from his son Brian. “After a lifetime spent in the unselfish devotion to the interest of others Prof. Frederick Bartholomeusz peacefully went to his rest today, October 22nd 2011, at the age of 91 surrounded ...
