Construction and Building Engineering Department at the University of Technology organized a scientific symposium entitled:

"Advanced techniques in road maintenance to improve traffic flow and management"

And the central hall of the department in the presence of the President of the University of Technology Prof.Dr.Amin Douai Thamer and the head of  Construction and Building Engineering Department Assc.Prof.Dr.Hassan Hamoudi  and Senior Engineer Hossam Fadel Al Amiri ,Assistant General Director  of Roads & Bridges Directorate and Assc.Prof.Dr. Amjad Hamad from the University of Baghdad

The President of the University of Technology delivered a welcoming speech explaining the importance of the topic and the "outstanding efforts of the department in establishing such seminars that will raise the level of scientific and applied university and help decision makers and government institutions concerned to make the appropriate decision.

The head of Construction and Building Engineering Department said that the department is interested in holding specialized seminars and providing studies on important topics for the society. The seminar highlighted the importance of scientific symposium titled "Advanced techniques in road maintenance and management to improve the flow of traffic and its management, aiming to inform the participants about methods of road maintenance in asphalt tiles and how to choose a replacement maintenance that meets the appropriate standards, because of the maintenance of the road network in Iraq of many problems, the most important lack of activation of the maintenance system significantly effective and influential as well as the budget specified For the departments and institutions concerned with the maintenance of the roads, which perform their activities within them.

The seminar included lectures on the types of failure in flexible tiling, rigid tiling, and types of maintenance of roads, the most common types of maintenance, in addition to the modern methods of maintenance in asphalt tiling, in addition to the use of some techniques to facilitate alternative selection or maintenance and take appropriate decision.

The seminar dealt with the most important problems and challenges in the maintenance of asphalt roads in Iraq, the methods of maintenance of roads common in the asphalt pavement and methods of implementation, the use of scientific research to develop alternatives and strategies for maintenance and rehabilitation of roads, based on "modern technologies

Continuing Education Center at the University of Technology organized a course on standard documents in the administration of government contracts and tenders with the participation of 17 trainees representing the Ministry of Oil, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Construction and Housing and the Ministry of Electricity.

The aim of the course is to spread the legal and contractual culture to the government authorities and inform the official authorities about the latest developments related to the implementation of contractual procedures and upgrading the skills of employees in the field of government contracts.

The course is of the week-long course for 15-19 / 4/2018 provided the trainees with the program and the scientific material related to the syllabuses of the course, and the use of visual, audiovisual and written means to implement the program.

The course was presented by Assc.Prof.Dr.Sahira Abbas from electro mechanical engineering department and some other tutors.

The optical and Laser engineering department at the University of Technology held a scientific symposium on advanced optical electronics in communication and remote sensing on Thursday 19/4/2018 at the conference hall in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering.

The head of the department, Prof.Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahab, expressed his thanks and appreciation to the President of the University of Technology Prof.Dr.Amin Douai Thamer for sponsoring the symposium, wishing all the security, prosperity and conciliation, adding that the department is striving to keep up with the development in the field of optical electronics .The seminar includes four specialized scientific lectures in the field of optical electronics. The symposium highlighted the importance and impact of optical electronics technology in the field of modern communications in terms of the environment, capacity, clarity and confidentiality of data, characterized by the speed and very large capacities of the data required to be handled in special conditions, as well as maintain accuracy, confidentiality and purity of data from interference and noise in another area of importance Photometric sensors with sensitivity and high accuracy of measurement. The symposium included two sessions, the first chaired by Prof. Dr.Fred Faris Rasheed and its reporter, Assc.Prof.Dr. Abdelhadi Kazem and includes two lectures on "Modern Applications in Remote Sensing Technology" the first lecture was presented by Assc.Prof. Dr. Eyad Zouen about the remote sensing as an advanced communications technology to detect and determine the nature of objectives and measure objectives without direct contact. The second lecture was about (Smart Cities) presented by lect. Ahmed Wael Abdel Wahab, in which he pointed out that smart cities are cities that use innovative technological solutions to improve the standard of living and services received by citizens and visitors and adopt smart cities which use Internet technology objects (Internet Of Things -IOT), in order to link the various components so that each component within this network is responsible for the sensor and assembling a specific set of data.

The second session was chaired by Assc.Prof.Dr.Salah Aldeen and its reporter was Assc.Prof.Dr.Mokram Abdul-Motalb and includes tow lectures about "High capacity Optical Communication System" presented by Assc.Prof.Dr.Jassim and he pointed out that the future communications systems need high-capacity communications systems because of the tremendous development of information transmission. Therefore, communication systems for the next generation must be able to provide high enough to support various services such as high-definition television package (4-20 Mbps) as well as applications of networks with a speed of 100Mbps. the second lecture was about (optical magnetism in stimulating surface plasmon ringing) presented by Assc.Prof. Dr. Ali Abdul Khaliq dealt with the ringing of surface plasmon is a group of electrons stimulated on the interface that separates the conductive material and the buffer, the use of this phenomenon in the biologic sensors because it has a sensitivity up to 0.00001 of the change in the refractive index and this has to do with the sensitivity measurements Of reagents in different circumstance.

The Department of Building and Construction Engineering at the University of Technology held a specialized course for the members of the Popular Crowd Authority - Directorate of Military Engineering entitled :( Construction and rehabilitation of highways).

The lecturers discussed several topics, including introduction to the types of roads and bridges, types of failure in flexible asphalt paving and concrete concreting, and the definition of causes and types of failure in paving asphalt roads and runways of airports and to identify the causes and types of failure in the paving of concrete roads and methods and methods of maintenance in asphalt pavement. The course aims at providing basic and scientific knowledge about the main failures in asphalt roads and sidewalks to be able to make good decisions when the roads need rehabilitation, repair or maintenance.

The course was presented by Assc.Prof.Dr.Hassan Hamodi and Assc.Prof.Dr.Zainab Ibrahim.

Chemical engineering department hold a seminar on Al-Khawarumi with the attendance of the head of the department Assc.Prof.Dr.Jamal Mana and bout scientific and administrative deputies Assc.Prof.Dr.Khalid Ajmi and Assc.Prof.Dr.Walla Abdul-Hadi and number of faculty in which the MSC student Elaf Khalid presented a lecture about reducing the obstruction of fluid flow in pipes by adding nanomaterials.

In this research, the student showed that several methods were used to reduce the high cost of energy used to transport fluids in pipelines. , Where recent studies have demonstrated the effect of nanotubes as a reduction in fluid flow. The aim of this study is to understand how the presence of solids or nanoparticles in liquids can reduce the problems of friction losses in pipes. This study investigated the effect of nanoparticles as mitigating factors for energy losses resulting from water transfer in pipelines. Where nanotubes are added at low concentrations such as parts per million to the solution. These small quantities played a dominant role in reducing disturbance and causing a significant reduction in friction losses. The tested water samples were selected, and the nanotubes used for water and nanoparticles were used in five different concentrations (50-250 ppm).

The test part consists of four different types of pipes (a 29.6 mm steel pipe, a 18.3 mm steel pipe, a 29.6 mm glass tube, a 29.6 mm L-shaped pipe), water pumping at different flow rates (1.0 To 0.8 m3 / h for each type of pipe and at room temperature (35 ± 1) m also studying the effect of nanoparticles types such as silica SiO2 and TiO2 titanium for comparison purposes.

The researcher also studied the effect of (additive type, additive concentration, pipe type, flow rate) on the percentage of reduction of disability and percentage of flow increases as percentage was also calculated. The best conditions for reducing disability in different tubes were also calculated in different operating conditions. Increased concentrations of nanoparticles and flow velocity. The steel pipe with a diameter of 29.6 mm shows the highest loss reduction compared to other pipe types at a certain speed. The reduction in energy losses when using titanium TiO2 nanoparticles was slightly higher than in SiO2 due to the difference in viscosity. The nanoparticle with a concentration of 250 ppm was shown to reduce the coefficient of friction. The highest loss reduction was obtained in the higher velocity of the tube Internal 29.6 mm. A mathematical adjustment was performed using an arithmetic program where the results showed a correlation between the reduction of the disability ratio in the practical experiments with the theoretical and expected results.