The Department of Electrical Engineering organized International Conference on Electrical Engineering, EECon 2018 for the second time on 28th 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 7-10th 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 3rd and 4th 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.
A safety workshop was held on the 24th of July at the seminar room of Department of Electrical Engineering for their technical officers and laboratory support staff, discussing the safety guidelines, precautions and first aid requirements. The workshop was conducted by Eng. Anura Wijayapala and Dr. Asanka Rodrigo.
Design project Competition for 2nd year Undergraduates of Department of Electrical Engineering organized by EESoc in collaboration with IEEE PES SBC of UoM was successfully held on 17th July 2018 at the Department of Electrical Engineering. The project carried out by the team W. A. V. U. Wickramasinghe, G. N. Wikramathunga and W. A. T.
Bhagya Samarakoon, a research student in the Intelligent Service Robotics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering was awarded the Nanjing City prize for the research paper entitled "Replicating Natural Approaching behavior of Humans for Improving Robot's Approach toward Two persons During a Conversation" published in 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) held from Aug 27-31.
