Techno Sri Lanka 2018 Exhibition draws large crowds!

The annual national  engineering exhibition organized by the apex body for the engineering profession in the country, the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL)concluded on a very successful note after 3 days of heavy participation by members of the profession, public and private sector executives, students of universities and  schools as well as general public.

Held this year from the  12^th to 14^th October, 2018  for the 33^rd  successive year since its inception in 1985, the exhibition has become the most preferred platform for exposition of cutting edge technology to the region and the most popular venue to witness and experience them.

This year’s event saw, as it did in the previous year, Defense Pavilion displaying  Research and Development outputs of the country’s  tri forces; Army, Navy and Air force, and many new  competitions targeting university undergraduates encouraging ingenuity and creativity among them.

Inventions of the Undergraduate Inventor of the Year  competition and Junior inventor of the Year competition drew much attentions as usual. Engineering Faculties of several  state universities and   state owned engineering education institutes made  their  presence felt by impressive demonstrations of modern technology in action.

The exhibition was declared open on the first day by Chief Guest, Hon. Champika Ranawaka, Minister of Megapolis and Western Development. Hon Ajith Mannapperuma, Deputy Minister of Agriculture opened the exhibition on the third day and final day.

As always the Members’ Lounge and its special facilitations for fellowship was a big draw among members of the IESL visiting the exhibition to relax and socialize with colleagues and renewing long lost connections.

Features like the  Building Clinic providing free advice to homebuilders and Mini Seminars on highly relevant topics were also big draws and so were stalls of the various engineering sectional committees and provincial chapters. The loyal following the exhibition has among some of the global brand names in  engineering products and services had their presence as they do every year at this event.

The organizing committee received utmost cooperation from sponsors , stall holders, suppliers, staff of the BMICH and visitors to the exhibition to make it a very successful event.