Recently, University of Moratuwa students brought glory to our country by winning the premier international robot completion, INexus. The two University of Moratuwa student teams competed in the completion early this month and won the 1st place and the 3rd place, beating teams from Australia and India.

The paper describes the design and development of an alarm device that can disseminate disaster early warnings to threatened communities over the GSM network. The device is capable of generating audible, high-volume alarms, flashlights and turning on an in-built radio in response to a warning message from an authorized entity via GSM’s short message service (SMS) or cell broadcast (CB).

The student team from UoM has won the Sri Lanka finals of the CIMA Global Business Challenge 2010 and qualified to participate at the Global finals scheduled to be held on 05th and 06th August 2010 in Malaysia. The student team from UoM has won the Sri Lanka finals of the CIMA Global Business Challenge 2010 and qualified to participate at the Global finals scheduled to be held on 05th and 06th August 2010 in Malaysia