{"id":19918,"date":"2024-11-19T04:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/?p=19918"},"modified":"2024-11-19T04:55:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:55:22","slug":"congratulations-to-prof-b-g-l-t-samaranayake-new-dean-of-the-faculty-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/congratulations-to-prof-b-g-l-t-samaranayake-new-dean-of-the-faculty-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Prof. B.G.L.T. Samaranayake, Dean of the Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PEFAA proudly extend heartfelt congratulations to <strong><em>Prof. Lilantha Samaranayake <\/em><\/strong>on his appointment as the <strong>Dean of the Faculty of Engineering <\/strong>at the University of Peradeniya. His unwavering dedication, exceptional leadership, and profound expertise will undoubtedly steer the faculty toward continued success and excellence. We firmly believe that under his guidance, the faculty will thrive and carve out a bright and promising future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the former <strong>Head<\/strong> of the <strong><em>Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering<\/em><\/strong> at UOP, Professor Samaranayake has already demonstrated his capacity for impactful leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, congratulations on this well-deserved appointment. We commend you for your outstanding contributions to the academic community and look forward to the great advancements that lie ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/newDean-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/newDean-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/newDean-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/newDean-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/newDean-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/newDean-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/newDean.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEFAA proudly extend heartfelt congratulations to Prof. Lilantha Samaranayake on his appointment as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Peradeniya. His unwavering dedication, exceptional leadership, and profound expertise will undoubtedly steer the faculty toward continued success and excellence. We firmly believe that under his guidance,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19918","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\/19918","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=19918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19921,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19918\/revisions\/19921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pefaa.eng.pdn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}