INSEE Factory visit 2024.01.23

 

As discussed earlier, we left the campus at around 05.30 AM to the INSEE cement factory.

 They provided a van(KDH) for our transport and the travel was very comfortable.

When we arrived at the factory time was around 9.00 AM. As soon as we arrived at the factory, we were given breakfast by them. After breakfast, INSEE coordinators conducted a presentation to the awareness about the rail track and the security of the rail gates at the Aruwakkalu limestone quarry. The presentation was so helpful for us to get an idea before the field visit. 

After the presentation, we went to the rail track visit with the two coordinators who had done the presentation. We had covered 65%-70% of rail gates during that day. Other gates didn't cover because of the time delays and bad road conditions.

Every time I say "With a Good team we can do fantastic work" my team proved my word because when data collecting they acted with full energy and paid full attention to the survey 

The instant climate conditions made a little hindrance to the survey. But with the team, we did it before the day's end with the support of the INSEE coordinators.

After the survey, we went to the INSEE guest house for refreshments and to get some food.

INSEE factory provided the all of food and drinks for our consumption.

At the day's end, we left at about 7.30 PM from the INSEE guest house.

We need to do another survey to get an idea about traffic around the rail gates, so we will come another day as soon as near future. 

Arranging the collected data and analyzing part will be done next couple of weeks by our team at the university premises. 

Meeting with Dr.Sameera & Dr.Ayomi 2024.01.19

 

Mr. Janith arranged a meeting with our CGU Coordinators Dr.Ayomi Witharana & Dr.Sameera Ariyawansa in the BLT room today ( 2023.01.19) at 12.00 noon.

Mathlab group and Insee Group(My group) participated in that meeting to discuss the project they had.

For nearly one and a half hours they informed us about the projects and discussed the problems we faced during the project procedure.

Specially Dr.Sameera talked about our insee cement project. Dr.Ayomi advised that the project must be professional and academically relatable. 

So we need to do some valuable and important projects and finally, we need to submit individual reports to the CGU after the end of the project.

Also, we need to make a report weekly and send it to Mr.Sameera as a Team.

Dr.Sameera & Dr.Ayomi said that we need to submit our project proposal before January 31st.

Additionally, they say that each member is evaluated during the project procedure and marks will be added to their final results. 

I stayed at the hostel because of this meeting today. I planned to go home yesterday (2023.01.18) and meet my girlfriend. But I didn't go because this meeting is more important and participation is mandatory.

After the meeting, I came to my home. 

First Day 2024.01.16

Service Learning subject is an 8-credit course conducted by the University of Colombo Faculty of Science. As a third-year science faculty undergraduate student, I chose this Service-learning subject because I needed work experience with industry experts. This time Commercial Bank and Siam City Cement Lanka (Ltd.) (Insee cement)  mainly cooperate with this Service Learning project and they give huge support to undergraduates for their projects.

 

At the beginning of the subject, CGU created two groups according to student's preferences and CGU opinions. According to that decision I selected to work with Insee Cement and Insee Cement was my preferred company. 

Five of my friends were selected for the Insee cement group. So Six members were there with me for the Insee cement project. The course advisor is Prof. Deepthi Wikramasinghe and CGU coordinators are Dr. K.G.Sameera U. Ariyawansa and Dr. Ayomi Witharana. Also, Mr.Janith wikramasinghe regularly gives updates about the project and that is so helpful for us.

So our team (INSEE) members are, 01) Dinesh (Team leader), 02) Thisarani, 03) Imesha, 04) Tedini, 05) Waruni, 06) Harsha (Me).

Insee Cement did their first introduction session via Microsoft Teams at 02:00 PM. All of the team members were joined.

The session was conducted in half an hour. Insee coordinators gave a brief introduction to the project and fixed a date (2004.01.23 Tuesday ) to visit their Industry.

if you need further details about service learning subject you can refer to the University of Colombo Faculty of Science website

https://science.cmb.ac.lk/academic/undergraduate-programs/honours-general-degrees/enhancement-courses/fs-3002-service-learning/