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Inviting proposals for innovative ideas of water conservation techniques for Home Gardening
CoVID – 19 pandemic brought in significant impacts to the society and the threat to immediate food security is on top of the list. It is evident that Government is highly encouraging home gardening as a remedial measure to this situation. There is a clear interest in the society for home gardening and it is fair to conclude that this situation would prevail for some time. However, the water requirement for home gardening will increase the domestic per capita water usage all over the country. According to the National Water Supply and Drainage Board, the cost of production of one m3 of treated water is about Rs. 50 and it will be a real challenge to provide increased domestic water demand continuously.
Objective:
As responsible organisation, Water Forum of IESL, is encouraging the home gardening drive by all means. In the meantime, we shall encourage identifying the ways and means of managing the additional water demand. One of the ways in this regard is to minimize water usage and to identify cost effective and easily adoptable means of reducing water use (in real sense, to feed only the actual requirement of water for the crop). Drip irrigation, automated sprinkler systems, rainwater harvesting, revival of dug wells, re-use of water are some techniques which can be adopted.
Invitation:
The innovative proposals for best water conserving measures for Home Gardening are invited from Members of IESL. Proposal should be innovative, simple, practical, aimed at conserving water and energy and suitable to implement on households in Sri Lanka. Proposals will be evaluated under three categories based on suitability home gardening in (A) Urban (B) Peri-urban (C) Dry zone areas. Proposals can be submitted for any type of above three areas and the type and the type should be clearly mentioned in your proposal. A panel of experts consisting of professionals from different branches of water sector will evaluate the proposals based on innovativeness, simplicity, practicality, effectiveness in water and energy conservation and suitability for the selected area). The selected best three proposals, one from each category will be recognized and awarded by the Water Forum of IESL.
Proposal Submission Deadline: 6th June 2020
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Call for Abstracts : IESL Young Members Section Technical Conference 2021
YMS2021 : Young Members Section 2021
IESL Young Members' Technical Conference 2021 organized by the Young Members Section of The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka will be held through Zoom on 9th October 2021 from 8.00 am to 6.30 pm.
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Background:
Colombo, Sri Lanka, October, 2021
Technical conference of Young Members’ section(YMS) - The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) will be held in October 2021 in parallel to the IESL Annual Sessions. It is a great opportunity for all young engineering professionals below 35 years age including student members of IESL to present their technical papers and discuss engineering related topics with industry professionals and academia.
Submission Guidelines:
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Accepted submissions will later be published in the YMS Digital Proceedings Volume.
Papers from the following categories are welcome:
Aeronautical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Marine Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Management / Manufacturing / Sustainable built environment
Authors are invited to submit their abstracts to IESL Young Members’ Conference. The review process is carried out using the double-blinded method. Therefore, when submitting the abstracts, authors are requested not to enter the author names and affiliations.
Closing date for submission of abstracts is30th of April 2021.
Extended Deadline for submission of abstracts – 15th of May 2021
Notification of the acceptance of the abstracts will be sent on or before 31st of May 2021.
Eligibility : Since YMS technical conference aims to encourage young members, at least one author (except supervisor(s)) must be a young member (below 35 years old to the date of abstract submission). Further, the accepted paper(s) should be presented at the conference only by a young member.
Important Dates:
Closing date for submission of abstracts - 30th April 2021 Extended to 15th of May 2021
Notification of acceptance of abstracts - 31st May 2021
Closing date for submission of full paper -10th August 2021
Notification of acceptance of full papers - 15th September 2021
Submission of camera ready copy - 30th September 2021
Date of Conference - 09th October 2021
Awards
Three best papers will be awarded based on overall performance, theoretical aspects, and a solution for an existing engineering issue. The best paper will be entitled to the prestigious late Eng. Chandrasena Award.