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Building and Construction Engineering Department at the University of Technology held a workshop on quality control about  construction projects under international standards in cooperation with the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, Directorate of Works and General Maintenance, and the American Concrete Institute, Iraq Branch. General Maintenance. Dr.Mohammed Jaber Aboud, department managers, design and implementation engineers from the ministry as well as a selection of professors of engineering colleges with specialization in civil engineering on various Iraqi universities.

The workshop included a lecture on the requirements of quality control under the American standard ACI 318-14M for both the testing laboratories and the people working in the examination (ACI Certification Program) and the problems of cracks: their causes, types and procedures to address. Dr. Nabil Abdul Majeed Al Bayati, Consultant of Structural Engineering and Assistant Professor Dr. Maan Salman Hassan, Consultant of Concrete Technology and Quality Control.

The lecture aimed to introduce the requirements of quality control in the construction projects under the American International Code ACI and compare them with the modern Iraqi Code issued recently by the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control. And identify the steps required by the supervisor to ensure that there is no defect in quality instead of treating the situation after it occurs.

The lecture also aimed at defining what is required to focus on also in terms of the level of efficiency of the construction laboratories and the people examining the site according to the international standard.

The lecture was an atmosphere of discussion and questions from the participants on the subject with the introduction of some proposals.

Laser and Optical Electronics Department at held a training course about  e-mail writing rules for students and graduates on Tuesday 26/12/2017.

The course included the definition of participants, e-mails and the language of each type, as well as the definition of the students on the basic elements of the e-mail.

At the end of the course, the participants were given an exercise in writing e-mail. The aim of this course was to train the students to write the e-mail correctly because of its importance in the future when addressing companies, universities or international institutions. 

The Information Technology Center at the University of Technology held a course on "Installing, inspecting and maintaining optical cable networks" with the participation of trainees representing the government departments and a number of employees of the University of Technology.

The course included several items, including: Introduction to optical fiber cables, optical cable welding by Fujikura welding device, optical cable inspection using the OTDR device and maintenance of fiber optic cables.

The Information Technology Center at the University of Technology held a seminar about  the follow-up systems for postgraduate students and the system of applying of university students' vacations in the presence of the Deputy  President for Scientific Affairs, Dr. Alaa Abdel-Hassan Attia and the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Abdul Hassan Abdul Karamallah, Information technology manger  Prof. Assis.Dr. Rana Fareed Ghani, Chef Programmer, Pan Mohamed Saleh, Researcher Sadeer Atioui and. Assistant Researcher  Abu Bakr Saeb Eissa discussed the collection of information during the analysis phase of the system as well as discuss the mechanism of work of these systems and it was agreed to develop future steps to work on completing the project as required to upgrade the reality of electronic work at the University of Technology.