S. Mahalingam (engineer)

Selvadurai Mahalingam (16 January 1926 – 3 November 2015) was a Sri Lankan Tamil mechanical engineer and academic.

Vidya Jyothi

S. Mahalingam
Born(1926-01-16)16 January 1926
Alaveddy, Ceylon
Died3 November 2015(2015-11-03) (aged 89)
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Alma mater
OccupationAcademic

Early life and family

Mahalingam was born on 16 January 1926 in Alaveddy in northern Ceylon.[1] He was the son of Selvadurai and Nagamma Sellasaraswathy.[2] When he was young his family moved to Malaya.[1] He was educated at Maxwell School and Victoria College in Malaya.[1] He returned to Ceylon aged 20 and joined Ceylon Technical College in 1946, graduating with a first class B.Sc.Eng. degree.[1][3] He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield in 1956.[1]

Mahalingam married Devaki.[1][4]

Career

Mahalingam joined the Engineering Faculty of the University of Ceylon (later University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, University of Peradeniya) when it was established in 1950.[1][3][5] In 1958 he wrote highly acclaimed research paper on vibration, Vibration of Branched System: A Displacement Excitation Approach, which was published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics.[1][5] Mahalingam received a D.Sc.Eng. degree from the University of London after which he was promoted to professor.[1][5][6] After retirement in 1991 he served as an emeritus professor at the University of Peradeniya.[6][7]

Mahalingam received the Vidya Jyothi honour in 2005.[8] He died on 3 November 2015 at the private North Central Hospital in Jaffna.[1][5]

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References
  1. "Professor. S. Mahalingam: A productive scholar, a gifted and devoted teacher". Tamil Diplomat. 5 November 2015.
  2. "Obituaries: Magalingam - Emeritus Professor Selvadurai". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 4 November 2015.
  3. Mahalingam, S. (2 January 2000). "The reverse brain drain". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).
  4. "Obituaries 04-11-2015". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 4 November 2015.
  5. "Renowned engineer Professor. S. Mahalingam passes away in Jaffna". Tamil Diplomat. 3 November 2015.
  6. "History, Department of Mechanical Engineering". University of Peradeniya. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010.
  7. "Professor who loved students & science passes away". Lanka Truth. 5 November 2015.
  8. "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications NATIONAL HONOURS" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1418/08. 7 November 2005.
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