Dean's Message
I give this congratulatory message to the inaugural volume of the research journal of the Faculty of Engineering, named the “Journal of Advances in Engineering and Technology” with immense pleasure.
At the outset, I thank the Editorial board members of the Journal for the excellent job they did by reviewing the submitted research papers using the double-blind review process and getting the other publication requirements of the first volume of the journal successfully. This will be a beginning of new era and this Journal will be published bi-annually, once in parallel with the SICET conference conducted by the faculty.
In parallel with the development of undergraduate programs of the faculty, we developed our Postgraduate research programs leading up to MPhil and PhD degrees, for which we were given permission by Ministry of Higher Education (MoH), Sri Lanka in 2015 after a thorough inspection of our capabilities. We take a genuine effort to disseminate our research in indexed journal and conference proceedings, and have a very good publication record over the past few years. We started this Journal with the idea of developing further research collaborations with the industry and other research institutions. I believe this Journal gives an excellent opportunity to achieve these objectives and I give my warm wishes for its future success!
Professor H S Thilakasiri
Dean, Faculty of Engineering
