News & Events

Electrical Engineering Society of University of Moratuwa has contributed to the nation in resolving key issues and concerns in the field of electrical engineering through the annual Round Table Conference. This Annual Flagship Event provides a unique podium for the professionals in the industry to unfold remarks on a prevailing issue which has a connection with the power sector of Sri Lanka.

Electrical Engineering Society (EESoc) organized a guest lecture by Dr. Gamini Mendis, which was held successfully on 18^th October at the Final Year Lecturer room of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Gamini Mendis shared his experience under the topic, “Sustainable Electronics: Global Challenge”.

Professor Kapila Perera, Vice Chancellor of the University and Professor Sisil Kumarawadu, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering visit the Shanghai University of Electric Power in order to represent University of Moratuwa at the establishment ceremony of B&R Regional

The Department of Electrical Engineering organized International Conference on Electrical Engineering, EECon 2018 for the second time on 28^th September 2018 at the Victorian of the Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo. The conference was graced with the presence of Vice Chancellor of University of Moratuwa, Prof. Kapila Perera and Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Nalin Wickramarachchi.

One of the 13 batch final year project groups from the Department of Electrical Engineering (E.H.A.D Shanaka Dilan Premarathna, K.A.P Chinthiya, R.R Dharmadasa and P.H.D.A.N Wijesinghe) won the first place of the IEEE IAS CMD Myron Zucker Design Competition (Team Category) 2017 award for their final year project -

A group of student from the Department of Electrical Engineering (W. A. V. U. Wickramasinghe, P. B. Guruge, N. C. D. Silva and P. H.

A team of top management of the Lanka Electricity Company and Asian Development Bank led by Chairman and General Manager of LECO and Dr.

Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Ravindu Bandara, a postgraduate research student presented two research papers at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2018) held from 7-10^th October in Miyazaki, Japan.

A research paper titled ‘Proxemics and Approach Evaluation by Service Robot Based on User Behavior in Domestic Environment’’ was presented at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) held from Oct 01 - 05 in Madrid, Spain by S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, a postgraduate research student and Dr. M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala  in the Department of Electrical Engineering .

MathWorks Mini Drone Competition IROS 2018 was held 3^rd and 4^th October 2018 in Madrid, Spain as a part of IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 conference. The competition consisted with tow rounds. More than 30 teams were registered for the round 1 of the competition.  In round 1, the teams had to develop a simulation model for navigating a Parrot Mamba minidrone using Matlab/Simulink.