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Funded Research Grants

Supporting impactful faculty and student research through local and international funding.

Fueling Innovation Through Funding 

The Faculty of Engineering promotes a strong research culture by offering targeted grant schemes that support innovation, community benefit, and academic excellence. These grants provide funding for essential resources such as equipment, fieldwork, publications, and participation in international research forums.

By encouraging impactful research, the faculty empowers staff and students to explore new ideas and contribute meaningfully to technological and societal advancement.

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Available Grants

Transportation Engineering

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Ecological rehabilitation of canals in Colombo: a design to harmonies flood control and physical heterogeneity

National Research Council, Sri Lanka

Development of a model and database to estimate national-level fuel consumption and emissions in the transport sector

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Development of a tool to conduct environmental life cycle assessment of buildings

National Research Council, Sri Lanka

A Composition and a method of seepage control using fibrous material

National Research Council & Soil Tech (Pvt) Ltd.

Design Verification for Stretcher MPR072 at MTD

Camso LoadStar (Pvt) Ltd

Reduction of Boundary Noise Level at CED

Camso LoadStar (Pvt) Ltd

Safe and Sustainable Mobility

AHEAD Grant – World Bank

Development an Energy System Model for Sri Lanka analyzing national energy policies.

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Development of an Algorithm for Non – Instructive Load Monitoring

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Characteristics of peaty soils and their engineering properties

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Improvement of the peaty soils and assessing the degree of improvement

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Identification of the defects in bored and cast in-situ piles installed through thick peaty soil deposits and remedial actions

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Life cycle modelling of buildings

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

Development of Rural Environmental Monitoring via ultra-wide-area networks And distributed federated Learning

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Development of UAV-Assisted and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Supported B5G Communication

SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration), Government of India

Development of Lightwave Underwater Network for Microplastic Monitoring

COFAC/Prêmio D'Alecrim LDA, Portugal

Development of AI-OCT for agriculture disease inspection

Asian Development Bank

Artificial Intelligence based Method for Autonomous Transmission Line Health Monitoring

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

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