Civil Engineering Department in cooperation with the Center for Environmental Research at the University of Technology held a specialized technical meeting to discuss the importance and measurement of the response and the benefit of the implementation of the research project (The environmental impacts of the phenomenon of desertification and drought, natural disasters and wars and their impact on the environmental and social reality and different sectors of work in Iraq). The meeting started with a speech by Prof.Dr.Amin Dawei Thamer, President of the University of Technology welcomed the attendees and urged them to communicate well and continuously with the University to reach the most appropriate and best conclusions and through openness and cooperation with the University of Sussex.Followed by the word of Asst.Prof.Dr.Hassan Hamoudi, in which he stressed the capabilities of the department and its engineering staff  in achieving the project on a global level through cooperation with the British University.33 experts and specialists from various attended the meeting and representatives of the University of Sussex Dr. Jath Wand and Dr. Hussein Al-Tamimi, who participated via satellite from the British University. The participants discussed scientific cooperation between our University and the University of Sussex through the adoption of a project(Environmental impacts of desertification, drought, disasters and wars and their impacts using geomatics).A full review of the project submitted by the University of Technology and a statement of importance of scientific and applied in Iraq.After that, the participants started a scientific discussion and the representative of the University of Sussex, achieving positive results by providing scientific assistance by the executive ministries of this project and employing postgraduate students to complete their research within the directives of this project.

Prof.Dr.Amin Dawei, President of the University of Technology, honored and appreciated the post graduated student (Nagham Gazi)  from  the Production and Metals Engineering Department and her supervisor Asst.Prof.Dr. Shukri Hammed for completing the MSC requirements before the dead line and he said (due to the efforts exerted by you in supervising postgraduate students that have resulted in the efforts of the students and their perseverance in completing the requirements of the study before the dead line, we are pleased to offer you thanks and appreciation to improve the high studies and to ensure the scientific situation in the university to serve our beloved Iraq and God the conciliator).

Prof.Dr.Jaffar Maatouq, Director of Laboratories at Department of Civil Engineering, received an appreciation certificate from the International Journal of the Institute of Engineering / Taylor University, Malaysia for his great role and scientific efforts as a global assessment in the magazine.

The Department of Laser and Optical Electronics at the University of Technology grants MSC to the student (Maha Sadiq Khalaf) specialized in Optical Electronics Engineering for her thesis (Design and Implementation of Short Range Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (UOWC) System).The thesis was about the importance of optical wireless communications has growing for underwater channel as it has ability of equipping high bit rates based on low power and small size requirement. Also, wireless is the reliable solution typically in the case of underwater, because of the nature of such unguided medium is very harsh and rough. In this thesis DD/IM has experimentally investigated in the form of PWM. Three wavelengths have utilized (450, 532, 650) nm to assess the feasibility of selection the suitable water channel with 50mW as incident power. S/R, BER and SER were inspected for five different water channels. These are tap water, different concentrations of Maalox (Mg (OH)₂ and Al(OH)₃) and salt  in order to obtain high turbidity water, Results shows that Maalox and salt content decrease the received power and interrupt the communicating link.The discussion committee was chaired by Asst.Prof.Dr. Thameer Rasheed , and the membership of Asst.Prof.Dr.Jasim Kadhim from UOT an Asst.Prof.Dr.Shatha Mizher from Iraqi Computers Authority, Asst.Prof.Dr.SalahDeen Adnan from UOT and Asst.Prof.Dr.Mazin Ali from UOM as supervisors, Prof.Dr. Jaber Salman from al Nahrin Unv. as a scientific reviewer and Prof.Khalid Salim from UOT as a linguistic reviewer.

Electromechanical Engineering Department at the University of Technology held a workshop on how to fill in the updated performance evaluation forms 2017-2018 with the participation of representatives of the university performance committees in the fields of Electromechanical Systems Engineering, Energy Engineering, Renewable Energies and Navigation Engineering.

The lecture was presented by the director of the Quality Assurance and University Performance Department, Lect.Dr. Mohammed Jawad Mohammed and Asst.Lect. Hussein Mohammed Abdul Hussein.

The workshop included a list of the updated forms and the details of their filling by the committees of the three branches in addition to some updated instructions such as the adoption of accepted research papers instead of the published researches in the evaluation year and how to calculate the flexible strengths of the staff.