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The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) awards ‘ENG. E. W. Karunaratna Award’ for the best undergraduate project in Electrical Engineering across engineering faculties in Sri Lanka. This year, the project “Develop a Series Arc Fault Detector to Minimize the Risk of Domestic Electrical Fires”, done by a group of students in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, received the award. The group members were, S. P. Somathilaka, N. T. Senarathna, H. E. Hewapathirana and W. M. K. S. Sumathipala. The project was supervised by Prof. J. R.

 Dr. AGBP Jayasekara has been promoted to the post of professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (on merit) with effective from 08.01.2019.

The 24^th Annual General Meeting of the Electrical Engineering Society (EESoc) of University of Moratuwa was held on 11th March 2020 at the Electrical Engineering seminar room. 

Prof. Sisil Kumarawadu has been appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies (ACCIMT) from February 2020. Prof. Kumarawadu is a Senior Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering.

International Conference on Electrical Engineering Research and Practice (iCEERP-2019) organized by the Western Sydney University was held in Sydney, Australia from 24^th to 28^th November 2019. The best paper award was presented for the paper on “Technical and non-technical losses in single phase Energy Metering”. This paper was presented by Mr. Nilush Jayawardane, an MSc student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and was co-authored by Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya and Prof. Ranjit Perera. 

Tharushi Kalinga, an MSc Research Student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended the Second Nepal Winter School in AI held from 10^th to 20^th December 2019 at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science (GCES) in Pokhara, Nepal.

Department Industry Consultative Board (DICB) Meeting of the Department of Electrical Engineering was successfully held on Thursday, 27^th February 2020 at the Engineering Faculty Board room, University of Moratuwa. The key matters for the discussion were industry relevance of the undergraduate program and the employability of Electrical Engineering graduates with the proposed changes to the curriculum. Very strong industry participation was noted and suggestions and feedback provided were very important in further developing the academic programs.

Prof. Sisil Kumarawadu Delivered Prof. R H Paul Memorial Lecture 2020 titled “Engineering Education, Training, Practice, and R&D” at the Wimalasurendra Auditorium, IESL, on the 10^th of February, 2020. 

Chapa Sirithunge, a final year PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended and presented at the 14^th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2019) which was held from December 18-20, 2019 at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. Chapa is a member of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group led by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana.

Sahan Priyanayana, a Mphil student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended and presented at the IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference which was held from November 12 - 14, 2019 in The Depok City, Indonesia. Sahan is a member of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group led by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana. He presented a paper titled “Evaluation of Navigation Commands Based on Conceptual Attributes to Enhance Human-Robot Interaction”.