The Graduate Institute of Science and Management City Campus launches next week in Udahamulla, Nugegoda as the country's first provider of higher education as a service leading to professionalism and thereby finding co-ordinated solutions to the problems and needs of Sri Lanka and neighbouring countries.
Professor Dr. Senaratne
 Prof. Dr. G. G. Senaratne is presently with the Graduate Institute of Science and Management, Sri Lanka as Chairman. He has pursued both academic and industrial careers in parallel.
In his academic career, he worked in Massey University, New Zealand where he received his PhD in Technology, a multi-disciplinary project on Microwave Signal Processing for Foreign Object Identification. His publications and research interests are on non-invasive object detection using Microwaves and on Engineering of wireless communications. In his industrial career he worked at the New Zealand Microwave Industry as a senior research engineer. He is a recipient of New Zealand Industry Fellowship 2004.
After completing his studies in the Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka in 1976 he started working in the telecommunication industry and gained local and overseas training and experience in the field of radio and transmission engineering for about twenty years. Professor Senaratne obtained his MSc degree on Mobile, Personal and Satellite Communication from the S Westminster University, UK in 1995 and then again joined the telecommunication industry where he worked in the areas of radio and transmission training and telecom repairs in Sri Lanka and overseas.
He also has gained professional qualifications from the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka and the Institute of Electrical Engineers UK in the field of Electronics and Communications. He is a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, UK and the Institute of Incorporate Engineers, Sri Lanka. |
This Institute is established by internationally well reputed academics who have returned to Sri Lanka, their ambitions backed by Universities and Research institutions in foreign countries. Professor Dr. G.G. Senaratne, world renowned Sri Lankan scientist and Professor of Electronics Engineering is the Chairman of the Graduate Institute of Science and Management.
"Our students at both Graduate and Postgraduate levels as well as in Research fields will be stimulated to acquire intellectual energy useful for the progress of our nation. I am ready to enlarge and expand the thinking of Sri Lanka's students in higher education at the Graduate Institute of Science and Management City Campus and I have the knowledge and experience to make Sri Lanka the hub of the region in research and development," Professor Dr. G. G. Senaratne said.
The launch ceremony of the Graduate Institute of Science and Management(GISM) will take place next week, October 13, at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, where the Minister of Higher Education S. B. Dissanayake, is the Chief Guest and Guests of Honour - the, Minister of Research and Technology Prof. Tissa Vitharane, Minister of Education, Bandula Gunawardena, and, Deputy Minister of Higher Education Nandimithra Ekanayake.
Speaking at the Graduate Institute of Science and Management pre-launch media briefing held last Wednesday at the premises, Professor Dr. G. G. Senaratne explained that the new - age requirement was for innovation and finding new technologies to improve our country's progress towards development. "This includes problems we encounter in our day to day lives," he said.
Professor Dr. Senaratne noted that he had returned to Sri Lanka in July this year after completing ten years in New Zealand both in academia and in the New Zealand Microwave Industry. "I have returned to my motherland to help President Mahinda Rajapaksa to generate solutions within our problems," he added. Professor Dr. Senaratne is a recipient of the New Zealand Industry Fellowship in 2004 and has also served as Professor of Electronics Engineering in the School of Engineering and Technology at Sharda University, India.
The Institute is equipped with air-conditioned modern lecture theatres and auditorium, state-of-the-art teaching and presentation facilities. Also the GISM provides students the facilities with advanced and basic computer laboratories, Electronics, Microprocessor, Physics and Microwave laboratories and library cum e-reference. Research & Consultation Centre and Professional Development Centre is to support our graduate students and researchers in this Institute, Professor Dr. Senaratne said. He explained that the Research & Consultation Centre is a place where local and foreign industries, experts and academics could come together to envisage their mutual interests.
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