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| Sunday, 27 January 2002 |
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University awards first doctorate
The Senate of the Open University recently ratified an earlier Examiner Board's decision to award the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy to a candidate in the Faculty of Engineering Technology, thus making this first such doctoral award in the history of the university. The award was made to Priyantha Wijesooriya for his research in the development of a power optimization model that is able to allocate energy resources in a generation process after considering the future fuel availabilities and their total costs. The research project, externally supervised by the University of Texas at Brownsville alongside the Open University's internal faculty, took five years to complete and signifies the university's entry into high-tech power generation optimization, an apt subject amidst global concern of energy scarcities and global warming. Its development within this country itself that currently undergoes a power crisis could have been better timing. This feet, which took the university 20 years to accomplish since its inception, marks the institution's entry into elite research in engineering studies. The Open University was formed in the mid 1970s as national education institution. It has a regional teaching network across the country. |
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