The final-year project of Yasith Perera and Malindu Mohotti titled “Development of a Stretchable Conductive Yarn for Electronic Textiles” won the Manamperi Award, for the best engineering final year undergraduate group project carried out at a Faculty of Engineering in a Sri Lankan university in the year 2017, awarded by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS). The project was supervised by Mr. Amila Perera, a former lecturer and current visiting lecturer to the Department, who himself, as a student, was the leader of the project group which won the Manamperi award in 2009.
