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Dr. Asanka Rodrigo, as the Deputy Chair (Prescient-Elect) of the IEEE PES Sri Lanka Chapter, participated for the IEEE PES Asia Pacific (Region 10) Chapter Chairs’ meeting held in Bangalore, India from 7^th November to 8^th November 2017. This meeting was held alone with the 9^th��IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference 2017.

Sri Lanka Robotics Meetup 2017 is an IEEE event organized by Robotics and Automation�� Society Sri Lanka Section Chapter in partnership with IEEE Sri Lanka Section. The focus of the forum is on status of robotics and automation applications and possible future directions. Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara served as a panelist in Sri Lanka Robotics Meetup 2017 which was held on 28^th September 2017 at Virtusa Auditorium.

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IEEE Student Branch of ����ͷ�� has been awarded the 2017 Darrel Chong Student Activity Award by the IEEE Student Activities Committee. Commending the active involvements and accomplishment of one of its main projects MoraXtreme of IEEE SB UoM, in a letter to Prof Sisil Kumarawadu, Counselor, IEEE SB UoM, IEEE Student Activities stated that "Your Student Branch has demonstrated steps toward improving the quality of IEEE Student Activities and the fostering of knowledge sharing.

Prof. H Y R Perera participated the 9^th International Conference on sustainability in Energy and Buildings – SEB’17 – held in Chania, Greece from 5 – 7 July 2017. He presented the paper on “Reduction of Solar PV Payback period Using Optimally placed Reflectors”. The paper is co-authored by D T P Wijesuriya, K D S H Wickramathilaka, L S Wijesinghe, D M Vithana and H Y R Perera. The paper is accepted for publication in the Elsevier Journal Energy Procedia

Dr. DP Chandima, Dr. AGBP Jayasekara and Dr. KTMU Hemapala elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE this year. Senior Member is the highest professional grade of the IEEE for which a member may apply. It requires experience, and reflects
professional accomplishment and maturity. Less than 10% of membership achieved this level of professional recognision.

The Department would like to congratulate Dr. DP Chandima, Dr. AGBP Jayasekara and Dr. KTMU Hemapala on joining the elite rank of IEEE Senior Members.

Three postgraduate students, Viraj Muthugala, Arjuna Srimal and Chapa Sirithunga of the Department of Electrical Engineering have presented three research papers at IEEE international conference on Fuzzy systems 2017 (IEEE Fuzz 2017) held July 9-12, Naples, Italy. They are working on development of MIRob (Moratuwa Intelligent Robot) , an intelligent service robot for domestic environments in the robotics and control laboratory of the department under the Supervision of Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara.

Dr. Duane Robinson visited the ����ͷ�� on the invitation of the Department of Electrical Engineering. The ����ͷ�� is engaged in its first ever Joint PhD program with the University of Wollongong.

Mr. Pathum Maduranga Sudasinghe, the first ever UoM student to enroll in a Joint PhD program commenced his work at the University of Wollongong on 29.8.2017 for the second part of his program. UoW offers him a full tuition waiver and a University Postgraduate Award for living expenses for a period of 18 months. Pathum commenced his PhD program at the ����ͷ�� in July 2017, and spent the first year at UoM.

Prof. H Y R Perera participated the 9^th International Conference on sustainability in Energy and Buildings – SEB’17 – held in Chania, Greece from 5 – 7 July 2017. He presented the paper on "Reduction of Solar PV Payback period Using Optimally placed Reflectors". The paper is co-authored by D T P Wijesuriya, K D S H Wickramathilaka, L S Wijesinghe, D M Vithana and H Y R Perera. The paper is accepted for publication in the Elsevier Journal Energy Procedia.

Robotics is one of the key trending fields of engineering with a massive impact on every other aspect of engineering.��