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Doctor Preethi Preethichandra Engineering / School of Engineering and Technology

Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

BSc.Eng, MEng, MEBM, PhD

Office Location
1.16
B 30
Contact Details
Email: d.preethichandra@cqu.edu.au
Phone: (07) 4923 2330 - Ext: 2330
    Professional Experience
    Prefessional Engineer in Electrical and Electronics
    Professional Memberships
    Corporete member and Chartered Engineer, Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka

    Senior Member, IEEE

    Responsibilities
    Discipline Leader, Electrical Engineering, CQU
    Computer Software
    C, Pascal, Fortran, VB, LabView, MatLab, Multisim, ProEng
    Term 2 - 2013
    ENEE14006 - Embedded Microcontrollers
    Course Coordinator
    Term 1 - 2013
    ENAE12014 - Digital Devices and Applications
    Lecturer - Distance - ENAE12014 - Term 1 - 2013
    Course Coordinator
    ENEE12014 - Electrical Circuit Analysis
    Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEE12014 - Term 1 - 2013
    ENEE13020 - Digital Electronics
    Lecturer - Distance - ENEE13020 - Term 1 - 2013
    Course Coordinator
    ENEE14005 - Capstone Power and Control Design
    Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEE14005 - Term 1 - 2013
    Lecturer - Distance - ENEE14005 - Term 1 - 2013
    Course Coordinator
    ENEG12004 - Engineering Design & Management Planning
    Lecturer - Distance - ENEG12004 - Term 1 - 2013
    Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEG12004 - Term 1 - 2013
    ENEG14003 - Engineering Project Planning
    Lecturer - Distance - ENEG14003 - Term 1 - 2013
    Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEG14003 - Term 1 - 2013
    ENEG14005 - Engineering Project Implementation
    Lecturer - Distance - ENEG14005 - Term 1 - 2013
    Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEG14005 - Term 1 - 2013
    ENTG13001 - Technology Project Implementation
    Lecturer - Distance - ENTG13001 - Term 1 - 2013
    ENTG13002 - Technology Project Planning
    Lecturer - Distance - ENTG13002 - Term 1 - 2013
    Term 2 - 2012
    ENEE14006 - Embedded Microcontrollers
    Lead Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEE14006 - Term 2 - 2012
    Lead Lecturer - Distance - ENEE14006 - Term 2 - 2012
    Course Coordinator
    ENEG12006 - Engineering Design & Management Implementation
    Campus Lecturer - Distance - ENEG12006 - Term 2 - 2012
    Campus Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEG12006 - Term 2 - 2012
    Term 1 - 2012
    ENAE12014 - Digital Devices and Applications
    Lead Lecturer - Distance - ENAE12014 - Term 1 - 2012
    Course Coordinator
    ENEE12014 - Electrical Circuit Analysis
    Lead Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEE12014 - Term 1 - 2012
    ENEE13020 - Digital Electronics
    Course Coordinator
    Campus Lecturer - Distance - ENEE13020 - Term 1 - 2012
    Lead Lecturer - Distance - ENEE13020 - Term 1 - 2012
    ENEG12004 - Engineering Design & Management Planning
    Campus Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEG12004 - Term 1 - 2012
    Campus Lecturer - Distance - ENEG12004 - Term 1 - 2012
    Term 2 - 2011
    ENEE14006 - Embedded Microcontrollers
    Campus Lecturer - Distance - ENEE14006 - Term 2 - 2011
    Lead Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEE14006 - Term 2 - 2011
    Course Coordinator
    ENEG12006 - Engineering Design & Management Implementation
    Campus Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEG12006 - Term 2 - 2011
    Term 1 - 2011
    ENEE14005 - Capstone Power and Control Design
    Tutor - Computer Laboratory A / 1
    Course Coordinator
    Lead Lecturer - Distance - ENEE14005 - Term 1 - 2011
    Lead Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEE14005 - Term 1 - 2011
    Tutor - Lecture A / 1
    Tutor - Computer Laboratory B / 1
    ENEG12004 - Engineering Design & Management Planning
    Campus Lecturer - Rockhampton - ENEG12004 - Term 1 - 2011
    Conference Paper

    Preethichandra, D, Ekanayake, E & Kaneto, K 2012, 'Characteristics of glucose biosensors with glucose oxidase deposited under high electric field' in A. Fuchs (ed.) 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings, 13th-16th May, 2012, Graz, Austria, IEEE, NJ, USA, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229587

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    Mala Ekanayake, EMI, Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2007, 'Fabrication and characterization on nano-structured conducting polymer electrodes for glucose biosensor applications' in ICIIS 2007: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems - 2007, 9��11 August, Sri Lanka, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIINFS.2007.4579149

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    Samaranayake, BGLT, Preethichandra, DMG, Alahakoon, AMUSK & Kaneto, K 2007, 'Bending curve modeling of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites in soft actuator applications' in 2007 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings: Synergy of Science and Technology in Instrumentation and Measurement, May 1-3, Warsaw, Poland, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2007.379353

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    Samaranayake, BGLT, Preethichandra, DMG, Alahakoon, AMUSK & Kaneto, K 2007, 'Modeling simulation and design of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite soft actuators' in ICIIS 2007: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems - 2007, 9��11 August, Sri Lanka, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIINFS.2007.4579221

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    Mala Ekanayake, EMI, Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2007, 'Enhanced adsorption of glucose oxidase by introducing artificial porosity in polypyrrole based glucose biosensors' in 2007 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings: Synergy of Science and Technology in Instrumentation and Measurement, May 1-3, Warsaw, Poland, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2007.378998

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    Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2006, 'An easy fabrication method for artificial muscles and bending curvature sensors using ionic polymer metal composites' in First International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, 8-11 Aug, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, IEEE, Piscataway. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIIS.2006.365728

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    Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2005, 'Bending curvature measurement using a SAW sensor fabricated on a Polyvinylidine Difluoride (PVDF) substrate ' in G. Sen Gupta, S.C. Mukhopadhyay and C.H. Messom (eds.) Proceedings of the first international conference on sensing technology : Massey University, November 21-23, 2005, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/conferences/icst05/proceedings/ICST2005-Papers/ICST_153.pdf

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    Journal Article

    Alahakoon, S, Preethichandra, D & Ekanayake, E 2009, 'Sensor network applications in structures: a survey', The Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering: Special issue - Sensor Network on Building Monitoring: from theory to real application, pp. 1-10. http://www.ejse.org/Archives/Fulltext/2009/Special/2009SP1.pdf

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    Mala Ekanayake, EMI, Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2008, 'An amperometric glucose biosensor with enhanced measurement stability and sensitivity using an artificially porous conducting polymer', IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 1621-1626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2008.922068

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    Mala Ekanayake, EMI, Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2008, 'Bi-functional amperometric biosensor for low concentration hydrogen peroxide measurements using polypyrrole immobilizing matrix', Sensors and Actuators B, vol. 132, pp.166-171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2008.01.042

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    Mala Ekanayake, EMI, Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2008, 'Effect of glucose oxidase immobilizing techniques on performances of nano scale polypyrrole glucose biosensors', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 47, no. 2, pp.1321-1324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.47.1321

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    Preethichandra, DMG, Thakur, AK, Takashima, W & Kaneto, K 2007, 'A combined bi-ionic polymer actuator with unidirectional extension against bipolar excitations', Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 122, pp. 587-590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2006.07.002

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    Mala Ekanayake, EMI, Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto , K 2007, 'Polypyrrole nanotube array sensor for enhanced adsorption of glucose oxidase in glucose biosensors', Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 23, pp.107-113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2007.03.022

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    Thakur, AK, Mukherjee, AK, Preethichandra, DMG, Takashima, W & Kaneto, K 2007, 'Charge injection mechanism across the Au-poly (3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) interface', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 101, pp. 1-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2734955

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    Preethichandra, DMG & Kaneto, K 2007, 'SAW sensor network fabricated on a Polyvinylidine Difluoride (PVDF) substrate for dynamic surface profile sensing', IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 646-649, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2007.894911

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    Papers in Refereed Proceedings
    D.M.G.Preethichandra, “Ultra Low Power Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Sensor Network”, 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE2012), December, 2012, kandy, Sri Lanka.
    Published in: 2012
    D.M.G.Preethichandra, E.M.I.mala Ekanayake and K. Kaneto, “Development of Low-Cost Nano-Biosensors to Enhance the Rural Healthcare Services”, 6th Intl. Coference on Sensing Technology (ICST2012), December, 2012, Kolkata, India
    Published in: 2012
    D.M.G.Preethichandra, E.M.I.mala Ekanayake and K. Kaneto, “Characteristics of Glucose Biosensors with Glucose Oxidase Deposited Under High Electric Field”, International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, (I2MTC2012), May, 2012, Graz, Austria
    Published in: 2012
    D.M.G.Preethichandra, E.M.I.mala Ekanayake and K. Kaneto, “Enhanced Glucose nano-Biosensor by Pulsed deposition of Conducting Polymer on ITO/Pt”, International Symposyum on medical Measurements and Applications(MeMEA2012), May, 2012 Budapest, Hungary
    Published in: 2012
    B. G. L. T Samaranayake, D. M. G Preethichandra, A. M. U. S. K Alahakoon, and K. Kaneto, “Dynamic Modelling of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite using Equivalent Passive Electric Network Components”, International Conference on Management Manufacturing and Materials Engineering (ICMMM), Dec., 2011, Zhengzhou, China
    Published in: 2011
    B. G. L. T Samaranayake, D. M. G Preethichandra, A. M. U. S. K Alahakoon and K. Kaneto, “Modeling Simulation and Design of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Soft Actuators”, ICIIS2007, Sri Lanka, August 2007
    Published in: 2007
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra and Keiichi Kaneto, “Amperometric biosensor Based on naoporous Polypyrrole for Fast Sensing of Glucose”, 68th Autumn meeting of Japan Society of Applied physics,. Hokkaido, Japan, Sept. 2007
    Published in: 2007
    B. G. L. T Samaranayake, D. M. G Preethichandra, A. M. U. S. K Alahakoon and K. Kaneto, “Bending Curve Modeling of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites in Soft Actuator Applications” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Inst. & Meas. (IMTC2007), Warsaw, Poland, May 2007
    Published in: 2007
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra and Keiichi Kaneto, “Enhanced Adsorption of Glucose Oxidase by Introducing Artificial Porosity into Polypyrrole Based Glucose Biosensors” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Inst. & Meas. (IMTC2007), Warsaw, Poland, May 2007
    Published in: 2007
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra and Keiichi Kaneto, “Study on characteristic dependency of nano-templated Glucose Biosensors upon Glucose Oxidase immobilizing techniques”, Fourth Intl. Conf. on Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics, Tokyo, March, 2007
    Published in: 2007
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra and Keiichi Kaneto, “Fabrication and Characterization of nano-Structured Conducting Polymer Electrodes for Glucose Biosensor Applications”, ICIIS2007, Sri Lanka, August 2007
    Published in: 2007
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, A.K. Thakur, W. Takashima and K. Kaneto, “An ionic polymer-metal composite sensor for bending curvature measurements”, The International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals(ICSM), Ireland. July, 2006
    Published in: 2006
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, M. Kunifusa, A.K. Thakur, W. Takashima and K. Kaneto, “Polymer actuators synthesized under a high transverse electric field”, The International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals(ICSM), Ireland. July, 2006
    Published in: 2006
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, A.K. Thakur, W. Takashima and K. Kaneto, “An easy Fabrication Method for Artificial Muscles Using Ionic Polymer Metal Composites.”, First Internatioanl conference on Industrial and Information Systems, Sri, Lanka, August, 2006
    Published in: 2006
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, W. Takashima, K.Kaneto, “Linear Bipolar actuator with unidirectional actuation”, 3rd International Symposium on Macro and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials (MAM-06) May, 2006 Tokyo
    Published in: 2006
    D. M. G. Preethichandra and K. Kaneto, “Surface Profile Sensing with Matrixed Conducting Polymers”,Technical report of IEICE, pp 11-14, 2005
    Published in: 2005
    D. M. G. Preethichandra and K. Kaneto, “Bending Curvature Measurement Using a SAW Sensor Fabricated on a Polyvinilidyne Difluoride (PVDF) Substrate”, Procedings of 1st International conference on Sensing Technology, New Zealand, pp594-597, 2005
    Published in: 2005
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, Masakatsu Kunifusa, Wataru takashima, Keiichi Kaneto, “The Influence of a Transverse Electric Field on Electrodeposited Conducting Polymers”, 53rd Spring Meeting of JSAP, Tokyo, Pp 1294, August, 2005
    Published in: 2005
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, “Development of a tele-operational prosthetic hand to imitate an expert's hand via internet”, CIMCA’2004, Gold Coast, Australia, 12-14, July 2004
    Published in: 2004
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, J. Billingsley, “A Stair-Climbing Wheelchair for Motor Accident Victims”, CIMCA’2004, Gold Coast, Australia, 12-14, July 2004
    Published in: 2004
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, A. Hsu, D. Alahakoon, S.K. Halgamuge, “A modified dynamic self-organizing map algorithm for efficient hardware implementation”, FSKD02, Sigapore,18th–22nd Nov, 2002
    Published in: 2002
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K.Shida, “A single sensor with four functions for engine oil condition monitoring” Senkoku Keisou kenkyukai (Japanese National Conference on Measurements), Saga University, Japan, 5th-6th Oct. 2000
    Published in: 2000
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K.Shida, “Optimum use of engine oil though multi-functional sensing and a fuzzy based decision making algorithm”, KACC2000, Seoul, Korea, 18th-23rd Oct. 2000. (Best Presentation Award)
    Published in: 2000
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K.Shida “A simple interface circuit to measure very small capacitance changes in capacitive sensors”, IMTC2000, Baltimore, U.S.A., 1st-4th May 2000
    Published in: 2000
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K.Shida, “Actual condition monitoring of engine oil through an intelligent multi-functional sensing approach”, IECON2000, Nagoya, Japan, 22nd-28th Oct. 2000
    Published in: 2000
    K.Shida, D.M.G. Preethichandra, “A multi-functional sensor for detecting engine oil condition”, JJAP symposium, Sapporo, Japan, 6th Sep. 2000
    Published in: 2000
    Invited Papers/Speaker
    Keynote Speaker - “Conducting Polymer Based Biosensors”, 2nd National Workshop on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE IMTC New Zealand Chapter, 1st - 2nd , Sept., 2010, Wellington, New Zealand.
    Published in: 2010
    Refereed Articles
    B. G. L. T Samaranayake, D. M. G Preethichandra, A. M. U. S. K Alahakoon, and K. Kaneto, “Dynamic Modelling of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite using Equivalent Passive Electric Network Components”, Advanced Materials Research Vols. 452-453 (2012) pp 1159-1163
    Published in: 2012
    Sanath Alahakoon, D. M. G. Preethichandra, E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, “Sensor Network Applications in Structures – A Survey”, Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, Volume 9, Special Issue, pp1-10, 2009
    Published in: 2009
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra, Keiichi Kaneto,　“Bi-functional amperometric biosensor for low-concentration hydrogen peroxide measurements using polypyrrole immobilizing matrix”Sensors and Actuators B, Volume 132, Issue 1, 2008, pp. 166-171
    Published in: 2008
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra, Keiichi Kaneto, “Effect of Glucose Oxidase Immobilizing Techniques on Performances of Nano Scale Polypyrrole Glucose Biosensors, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2008, pp. 1321-1324)
    Published in: 2008
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra, Keiichi Kaneto, “An Amperometric Glucose Biosensor with Enhanced Measurement Stability and Sensitivity Using Artificially Porous Conducting Polymer”, IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement. Vol. 57, No.8, 2008, pp. 1621-1626
    Published in: 2008
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, A.K. Thakur, W.Takashima, K. Kaneto, “A combined bi-ionic polymer actuator with unidirectional extension against bipolar excitations.”, Sensors and Actuators – B, Volume 122, Issue 2, 26 March 2007, pp. 587-590
    Published in: 2007
    A.K. Thakur, A.K. Mukherjee, D.M.G. Preethichandra, K. Kaneto, “Charge Injection Mechanism Across Au-poly(3-hexylethiophene-2,5-diyl) interface”, Journal of Applied Physics, 101, 104508(2007)
    Published in: 2007
    E.M.I. Mala Ekanayake, D.M.G. Preethichandra, Keiichi Kaneto, “Polypyrrole Nanotube Array sensor for Enhanced Adsorption of Glucose oxidase in Glucose Biosensors” , Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 23, Issue 1, 30 August 2007, pp. 107-113
    Published in: 2007
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K. Kaneto, “ SAW Sensor Network Fabricated on a Polyvinylidine Difluoride (PVDF) Substrate for Dynamic Surface Profile Sensing”, IEEE Sensor Journal, 7 (2007) pp. 646-650
    Published in: 2007
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K.Shida, “A Multi-Functional Sensor for Liquid Characterization and Identification”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.40(2001), No.3A, Part I, pp 1482-1486.
    Published in: 2001
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K.Shida, “A simple interface circuit to measure very small capacitance changes in capacitive sensors”, IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 50, No.6, Dec. 2001, pp 1583-1586.
    Published in: 2001
    D.M.G. Preethichandra, K.Shida, “A multifunctional sensor for automobile engine oil condition monitoring”, Transactions of Institute of Electrical Engineers, Japan, Vol. 119-E(1999), No.4, pp 184-188
    Published in: 1999
    Research Interests
    Nanotechnology based sensors and actuators, Sensor development, sensor networking, Embedded systems development, Robotics
    ENGINEERING
    This person is a recognised research supervisor for this field Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
    Sensor Development, Sensor Networking, Embedded System Development
    ENGINEERING
    Biomedical Engineering - Biomedical Instrumentation
    Glucose Nano-Biosensors
    Other Engineering - Engineering Instrumentation
    Sensor development, Sensor network development, and Embedded system development
    TECHNOLOGY
    Nanotechnology - Nanofabrication, Growth and Self Assembly
    Nanotechnology based sensors and actuators