{"id":19601,"date":"2023-11-17T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/?p=19601"},"modified":"2024-06-08T02:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T02:22:24","slug":"pefaa-agm-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/pefaa-agm-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"PEFAA Annual General Meeting 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Thirty Second (32) Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Alumni Association (PEFAA) was held at the E.O.E. Pereira Theatre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya on 11th November, 2023 with the presence of Dean, Faculty of Engineering and about hundred alumni members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A one-minute silence was observed commemorating past alumni members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outgoing president welcomed all the participants at the event including the members who joined the session via zoom. He extended his thanks to all the members who actively contributed to the PEFAA events conducted during the past year. Further, the president mentioned the five years development plan which will be uploaded to the PEFAA web page in due course. He also mentioned about the projects initiated by PEFAA Colombo chapter, specially the landscape project and invited the members\u2019 support to realize the proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dean, Dr. Udaya Dissanayake addressing the meeting congratulated PEFAA for organizing this event. The Dean stated that despite the pandemic, faculty moved forward with online lectures and examinations and was able to graduate two batches during the year. He appreciated the support given by PEFAA in achieving these targets. He concluded his speech while extending his fullest support to PEFAA.<br>Names of recipients of the following annual awards were announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Engineering Mathematics Prize<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engineering Mathematics Project Prize<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof. Mahalingam Endowment Fund Project Grant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. NadarajahNandakumar (E\/80) Memorial Award for Best Performance in Engineering Hydrology<br>The event was decorated by the mesmerizing performance of the undergraduates of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, Vice Chancellor, Prof. M.D. Lamawansa addressed the gathering. He stressed the important role that the alumni members of the university have in shaping the future of the university. The Vice Chancellor also mentioned that the generous contributions of the PEFAA are always appreciated. He concluded his remarks by stating that the university is expecting similar contribution in the future events as well.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thirty Second (32) Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Alumni Association (PEFAA) was held at the E.O.E. Pereira Theatre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya on 11th November, 2023 with the presence of Dean, Faculty of Engineering and about hundred alumni members. A one-minute silence was observed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19611,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions\/19611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}