The Center for Continuing Education at the University of Technology organized a course on the examination of modern cars using computers for the period 24-28 / 9/2017 with the participation of trainees representing the ministries of the state.The course aims to introduce the types of sensors and methods of examination and diagnosis of car breakdowns.Its platform includes a general introduction to sensor types, actuators, fault diagnosis and diagnostics, electronic control unit, computer use for vehicle inspection. The lecture will be given by Adel Mahmoud from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Technology.

The University of Technology received several awards during the annual celebration of the Iraqi Science Day under the slogan "Science and scientists defeating terrorism", which was established by the Research and Development Department at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research on Wednesday 20/9/2017 at Al Hakim Hall at Baghdad University. Abdul Razzaq Al-Issa and a number of advisers and directors-general in the ministry and the presidents of universities and professors and researchers and students distinct in various disciplines.
 Where Dr. Abdul Razzaq Al-Issa, President of the University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Amin Douai Thamer, honored with two awards for the second place in the national classification of the quality of Iraqi universities and the third place for the distinguished university award, which achieved the most achievement for the year 2016.
 The Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Research Center won the first place for the Center Award or the Distinguished Research Unit for the year 2016. It was received by the Director of the Center, Dr. Mohammed Jasem Kazem, and Prof. Ahmed Tariq Sadek received the first place in the Computer Science Department. The distinguished author or translator of 2016 in Engineering and Technology, and Dr.Markam Abdulmutallab Fakhri was awarded the second place for outstanding teaching professors to publish research in a world-class scientific journal specializing in engineering and technology for the year 2016.It is worth mentioning that the university received the award of creative work within the activities of the rehabilitation, employment and follow-up department at the university.

The Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Research at the University of Technology received the first place in the Science Day Award.
 According to Director of the Center dr.mhoamed Jassim Al-Tamimi: This is to win the result of scientific efforts made by the professors and employees of the center through providing them with the unlimited support by the presidency of the university, which has always been keen to promote scientific openness to promote nanotechnology applications in the industrial and productive sectors.

Mohsen Hassan cheloob from the Department of control and Systems Engineering at the University of Technology participated with his research entitled " Retinal vessels segmentation using matched filter with the joint relative nitropy " at a world conference of high quality classified in Group B in the classification list, 24 August 2017.
 The study included the extraction of the retinal vessels from the human eye to diagnose and treat many diseases.
 The results showed that the performance of the proposed method, which reaches 90% accuracy, is better than the other ways of extracting the network vessels.

Head of Electrical Engineering Department Dr. Dhari Yousif Mahmoud, Director of Statistics and Information Bank at the University of Technology Statisticians Anam Hussain Ahmed with a certificate of appreciation for her efforts exerted and distinguished by them in order to improve the statistics and the information bank at the level of the department and the university.
 The Director of the Department of Statistics expressed her gratitude and thanks to this initiative by the Department of the Department of Statistics and the Department of Statistics for their serious and constructive cooperation in organizing, summarizing, presenting and analyzing the data to reach the results. An acceptable and sound decision in the light of these analyzes in order to improve for the better.