Today, almost all the industries are rapidly evolving with the aid of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Such industries are assisted by increasing number of intelligent devices which have been inbuilt or embedded computing solutions. Thus, there is a strong demand for multidisciplinary ICT professionals around the globe including Sri Lanka. The Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Honours degree program offered by the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Faculty of Technology, University of Colombo aims to cater to this demand by producing multidisciplinary ICT professionals. The prospective undergraduates are selected through the newly introduced Technology stream to the G.C.E. Advanced Level examination. In the degree programme students are exposed to multidisciplinary curricula including mini projects, internship/industrial training, and a final year research project to improve variety of ICT skills and other required skills to make them well-rounded ICT professionals. The well-equipped multimedia, IoT and network laboratories in the Department enable research to be carried out in the areas of Human Computer Interactions, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Computer Networks, Information & Network Security, Computer Science and etc. Overall, students will be trained to serves as Network Professionals, Database Administrators, System Administrators, DevOps Engineers and many other ICT professionals for the Information and Communication Technology industry.
The Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which is the youngest department of the Faculty of Technology conducts a Bachelor in Information and Communication (BICT) Degree program for undergraduate students. In particular, the department focuses on creating technologists with hands-on experience in System Administration, Network Administration, Database Administration, and DevOps engineering to cater to the industry requirements. The department has aligned the course modules to enhance knowledge of the pillars of the degree program of Operating Systems concepts, Programming concepts, Networking, Database concepts, and theory of Computer Science. Moreover, the department has academic alliances with Cisco Network Academy, Linux Academy, UiPath Academy, and AWS Academy so that the students can access the study material of those academies and use their LMS free of charge. This will be a great opportunity and advantage for the students to specialize in the domain knowledge of the students.
To fulfil the requirements of the degree program, in the 1st year second semester, the students will be given ICT mini projects that must be completed within one year to familiarize technology and to get experience in working as a group. In the 3rd year second semester, they have to undergo a six-month internship program and work in IT companies and get experience by working in a real environment.
In the 4th year 1st semester the students must undergo a Comprehensive Analysis and Design Project (CADP) as a part of the degree program to get the BICT Degree. This project must have a research component design and development of the system and finally, they have to submit a thesis and write a research paper based on that research.
Services such as infrastructure management, network administration, software and application support, data management, conducting training programs and short courses will be provided by the department.
Dr. Rohan Samarasinghe
Head/ Department of Information and Communication Technologies