Sammu Raghu De Silva Chandrakeerthy

In 2013, Prof. S. R. De S. Chandrakeerthy was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of Moratuwa.

Prof. S.R. De S. Chandrakeerthy initially worked as a lecturer at the Ceylon College of Technology from 1968 to 1972. After completing of his postgraduate studies at the University of Sheffield, England, he became a lecturer at the University of Sri Lanka, Katubedda Campus in 1973. He was promoted to the grade of Senior Lecturer in 1979 and to the post of Associate Professor in 1985. Prof. S. R. De S. Chandrakeerthy became a Professor of Civil Engineering in 1995. He was the first person from the University of Moratuwa to obtain merit promotions to the grades of Associate Professor and Professor. Prof. S. R. De S. Chandrakeerthy also functioned as a Senior Designs Engineer (visiting), at T. Harley Haddow and Partners, Edinburgh, U.K. from 1980 to 1981. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Engineer” of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka from 1985 to 1987. Prof. S. R. De S. Chandrakeerthy worked as a British ODA Fellow, Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom in 1988, and was a Fulbright Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA from 1989 to 1990. In 1992, he worked as an ILO Fellow, Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom and acted as a Research Associate, Department of Civil & Geotechnical Engineering, University of Manitoba from 1999 to 2000. Prof. S. R. De S. Chandrakeerthy was a structural Design Consultant, Manitoba Hydro, Winnipeg, Canada from 2000 t0 2001 and was a Visiting Academic, at Monash University, Melbourne and a Visiting Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne in 2009.

Prof. Sammu Raghu De Silva Chandrakeerthy (born in 1945) is an academic, researcher and practitioner of the discipline of engineering who has contributed to the development of Engineering Education and research in the field of Civil and Structural Engineering both in Sri Lanka and abroad. He is a former Vice-President of the Society of Structural Engineers, Sri Lanka (1992-1994). He has pioneered in teaching Structural Engineering Design, Building Construction, Construction Engineering, and Building Materials subjects at the University with emphasis to Sri Lankan environmental conditions and local construction practices.

Prof. Sammu Raghu De Silva Chandrakeerthy was born in 1945 and had his schooling at Richmond College, Galle. He entered the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Ceylon at Peradeniya in 1963 and graduated in 1967 with an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering. He obtained the PhD degree specializing in Structural Engineering in 1973, from the University of Sheffield, England.