The ICT Students’ Circle of the Faculty of Technology, University of Ruhuna, successfully organized HackTrail 2.0, an overnight hackathon, on the 21st and 22nd of August 2024. The event brought together 75 enthusiastic undergraduates, grouped into 15 teams, who competed to develop innovative solutions for the given problem statement. This hackathon provided students with hands-on
Dr. Kaushalya Wijayasekara, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biosystems Technology, has been awarded the 2024 Investigator-Driven Research Grant by the National Research Council (NRC), marking the first such achievement for the Faculty of Technology. This competitive grant recognizes innovative research with significant societal and environmental impact, supporting Dr. Wijayasekara’s pioneering project on Animal Feed Derived from Fish Processing
On April 2, 2025, a group of students from the Engineering technology and Bio System technology departments attended a training session offered by the District Agricultural Training Center- Kamburupitiya for the purposes of the projects on the mushroom production process. The visit was led by Dr. Wathsala Rajawatta of the BST department and Ms. Sanjeewani
On February 20th, a group of level 3 students from the Department of Engineering Technology visited the “Makandura Tec Factory” to inspect the tea leaf drying process. The visit was part of the ongoing “Development of Surface Moisture Reading Device for Tea Leaves” project, lead by Mrs. Sanjeewani Thilakarathna from the Department of Engineering Technology.