Field Visit | 2022

Field trips are part of the curriculum and are meant to expose students to their actual and practical fields of work where they visit different industries and projects. Here they are expected to be very observant and inquisitive and collect information which will assist in the gaining knowledge of how to works theories that are learnt in the classroom in the industry. In our ambition, the future managers of the information communication field and how to face the related issues while engaging in such jobs, the advantages of engaging in the information communication field, thus we were motivated to work intelligently to achieve our goals.

The visit was organized by the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Management Studies in Rajarata university of Sri Lanka under the coordination of Mr.Udesh S. Senarath & Mrs.K.P.S. Bandara on 23^rd of December 2022 and 42 of final year students of the department participated to that visit. A university bus was used for transportation. The place we visited is SLT Mobitel Data Center which is situated in address of SLT Mobitel Data Center, Dampe - Pitipana Rd. it introduces state-of-the-art data center facilities par with global standards as the proud pioneer of data center services in the country. With Uptime Data Center Tier certification, Green Gold certification, ISO 27001 and ISO 900 quality standard certificates, SLTMobitel will collocate IT workload with a purpose-built Tier III data center. There, the students were given the opportunity to observe all the other places except the protected areas including data racks, cooling systems, generator systems, security systems, operating system, networking system, server systems, etc. Apart from that, awareness was given about the factors to be considered while setting up a data center. Correct and explained details were given by the technicians employed by the data center.

The challenges of this field trip were the lack of time. The reason for this could be the long destination and the problems in the bus.

However, the students and the participating lecturers managed to complete a very interesting and successful field trip by gaining a lot of knowledge, and the students and lecturers thanked the officials and in-charges of the station for the knowledge imparted. The field trip ended after thanking the students for following the rules and maintaining discipline that the place expected of them.