Chirantha Ranasinghe, a third year student who is concurrently engaged in his own entrepreneurial endeavours recently won the Best Young Entrepreneur award at the J’Pura Employability Skills Awards (JESA) 2021 ceremony. He was also a semi finalist for the BESA award (Best Employability Skills Achiever). Chirantha’s work is centred around creating CNC aided wooden crafts....Read More

Dileesha Jayathilaka, a final year student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, has won the semi-final of the national level speech competition “Speak out for Engineers”, organised by IMechE. The competition, organised by the Young Members of the institution has been running for almost 60 years, focused on improving...Read More

The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura has been able to get the first ever International patent application (PCT) filed by the university, published. The PCT published was for the design of a “Smooth lateral patient transfer apparatus” intended for laterally transferring patients from one horizontal surface to another (bed to...Read More

Triple Disinfection chamber is a proof-of-concept prototype developed by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, USJ to disinfect packages or parcels. UVC light, sanitizer spray and hot air mechanisms are used to disinfect the surface of a package or a parcel. The prototype was developed by Dr. Dulini Mudunkotuwa and the team including Dr. Tharaka Bandara,...Read More

Capital Racing Team is the formula Student Racing team of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. The team comprises students of the newly formed faculty of Engineering. The team is ambitious and has undertaken the biggest mechanical engineering project available in the undergraduate level which is to design and build a race car to compete in...Read More