{"id":21825,"date":"2023-11-21T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/?p=21825"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:21:01","slug":"department-industry-consultative-committee-dicc-meeting-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/department-industry-consultative-committee-dicc-meeting-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Department-Industry Consultative Committee (DICC) meeting &#8211; 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DICC-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DICC-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DICC-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DICC-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DICC.jpg 1329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2023 Department-Industry Consultative Committee (DICC) meeting convened on November 21, 2023, at the A. Thurairajah Conference Room. This collaborative gathering brought together industry leaders and senior engineers from government- and private-sector organizations for fruitful discussions with the academic staff of the Department of Civil Engineering. The meeting featured three insightful presentations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aspects of UG Programme\/Revised Curriculum<\/strong>\u00a0by Prof. C.S. Bandara<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Research and PG Studies<\/strong>\u00a0by Prof. K.G.N. Nanayakkara<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Enhancing Employment Opportunities for Young Engineering Graduates<\/strong>\u00a0by Prof. K.K. Wijesundara<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Following these presentations, a dynamic discussion session was moderated by Dr. S.K. Navaratnarajah, the coordinator of the Department-Industry Interaction Cell (DIIC). The event served as a platform for meaningful exchanges and strategic dialogue between academia and industry professionals, fostering collaboration and shaping the future of engineering education and employment prospects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Department-Industry Consultative Committee (DICC) meeting convened on November 21, 2023, at the A. Thurairajah Conference Room. This collaborative gathering brought together industry leaders and senior engineers from government- and private-sector organizations for fruitful discussions with the academic staff &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}