Deans, chaired the first session of the meeting of the committee of

deans of schools of engineering for the academic year 2016-2017, which was held in the Environmental Research Center /the University of Technology on Sunday, 28/08/2016.

On the behalf of the President of the University of Technology, the meeting was launched in the presence of Assistant Professor, Dr. Sami Abu Al-Noon Ajil / Vice President for Scientific Affairs, who in turn welcomed the Deans who attended this meeting. Several important topics were discussed during this meeting; the major topic was the fast response pertaining to requests of developing or modifying the curriculum and submit them to the committee before March, 2016. In addition, the inclusion of Iraqi codes in the undergraduate curriculum and other issues were also discussed in order to promote the engineering situation and to achieve the advancement in the Iraqi universities and our beloved country.

Applying problem-Based Learning Program on Third Stage Students

   In collaboration with IREX Organization and the University of Missouri (USA), problem-Based Learning (PBL) program has been applied on third stage students of Building Engineering and Project Management Branch Thursday, April 2^nd, 2015for the subject “Quality Control”.

   Assist. Prof. Dr. Ma’an Salman Hassan (project supervisor in the department) stated that students showed enthusiasm to implement the program, after recognizing its philosophy represented by adopting the learner rather than teacher in achieving the educational goals set for the course of study.

Students have been categorized into five groups. Each group includes 3-4 students as shown in photos and names:

Building and Construction Engineering Department Sponsors Students’ Graduation Celebrations

The department held party for forth-stage students in March 25^th, 2015 to celebrate their near graduation. The students did special and kind activities expressing their spirit of insistence and challenge to terrorism and all hard conditions in continuing learning and study. Head of Department congratulated students in this occasion hoping them all success in study and life to serve our country Iraq.

Examining Post-Graduate Student

Post graduate student (M.Sc. student Zainab Thamir Mohammed/ Geomatic Engineering/ under supervision of Prof. Dr. Riyad Hassan Hadi-Head of Building and Construction Engineering Dept.) has been examined on her thesis entitled “Environmental Analysis of Urban Land Usages by Using GIS in Al-Shaab Municipality”. The examination proceeded on Higher Studies Room in Building and Construction Engineering Dept. at 09:00am, Thursday- April 2^nd, 2015. The student has got a grade “Excellent”. Our congratulation to the student hoping success in her practical life.

Discussing post – graduate students

    A Seminar has been conducted in the department to be a wave of the most important things related to post graduated researches such as obstructions, needs, instruments, equipments and the readiness of labs for students’ researches.

The seminar has been attended by heads of branches, teaching member and post graduate students to recognize the phases that the student passes through preparing the researches.

Head of department presented in the seminar his remarks and recommendations praising the rate of the supervisors and lab. Staff who are cooperating with students especially the labs. Those were opened during holidays to give students the chance to explode time.

Exhibit for 4^th stage students^’ project

        The department held an exhibit (our steps towards Quality) for the special project of 4^th stage students for academic year 2014-2015 with cooperation with American concrete institute (ACI)- Iraqi branch.

The projects involved subjects interested by the institute which are: concrete technology, reinforced concrete design and concrete production management.

The exhibit is under the supervision of ACI – Iraqi branch^’s Head Assist. Prof. Dr. Ma’an Salman Hassan.s

Scientific Travel for Students of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Branch

Within the department’s scientific activities to improve the level of quality and performance of the university and in order to make link between academic study and practical side, Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Branch, coordinating with Baghdad Municipality- Baghdad Water Office, has organized a scientific travel on March 31^st, 2015 for third-stage and fourth-stage students to Al-Wihda Project for Water Supply Treatment in Al-Masbah District.

MSC  Study to Reinforce Reactive P owder Concrete Beams :

Reinforcing by  polymer carbon  fibers  plays remarkable role in raising  beams effiency  to  resist bending  moments  especially with using outer anchorage which has led to an increase in bending  resistance of beams reaching  sometimes 64,29 %  compared to concrete beams not  reinforced with polymer  carbon fibers .

In addition an increase in first cracking loads has noticed sometimes to 100 % .

Further concrete beams reinforced with carbon fibers have less deflection , and the presence of the outer anchorage is very important action of connection between polymer carbon fibers and concrete section .

 The conclusion stated above have been reached by the researcher Falah Jaras Aaed through examining his thesis entitled " Practical study to Reinforce Flexure Reactive Powder Concrete Beams by using of outer polymer Carbon Fibers " On Wednesday , May 4 , 2015 .

Examination committee involved Assist . Prof Dr. Amer Farog – Baghdad University ( Head ) , Assist.Prof Dr.Wamid Ghassan and Lec.Dr.Samir Fawsy – University of Technology  ( members ) and Prof. Dr. Qais Fuad and Assist . Raed Khalil ( Supervisors and members ) .

   The examination has been conducted on Higher Studies Room ( Dr. Nima Amara ) in Building Construction Engineering Dept. The student obtained the degree " Excellent " Congratulation to all .

Curriculum   Workshop 

 A workshop has been conducted with representatives of the following ministries as part of the requirements of quality and university reliability to discuss undergraduate c of our dept after transmittiy from annual system to courses system in order to take part with us to prepare deseriphon according to their requirements because they are the side that will receive our department s  graduates employ them and performs their worlds as part of Curriculum program quality to obtain academic reliability 

 on Wednesday , 27 -5-2015 

      Ministry of Defense  

         Ministry   of General Works     

    Ministry    of Science and   Technology

       of Water Resources 

              of  Planning 

        of Environment 

                  of Construction and Housing

         of Amanot Baghdad    

The  academic  curriculan  of  the  six  branches  in  our  department have  been  displayed through  the workshop by Dr.Umar Najdat to show  the representatives the main sides of the academic program , the degree of connection between the syllabus and percentages agreed on according to the requirements of the university  and  the department  and  the  scientific  bramches , and the adopted hours and  units  to  obtain  bachelor  certificate  of  science  in building and construction engineering in addition to the certificate of the branch speciality

The  syllabuses  have  been  discussed  with  the representatives  of ministries  to  state  the  scope  of  compliance  to  the  decided goals  and  the  scope  of  its  convince  to  work mark represented by them . All ministries have praised the academic program stating its being valid to serve all their needs focusing on acquiring students applied skills in addition to scientific side to speed up  qualification to work in the projects of those ministries.

The broad application of scc in construction field have given it great importance in recent years .however there are limited concepts about the common effect of hybrid fibers on scc on the one hand , and the multi-effects of hybrid fibers on scc via entering nano materials on the other hand due to the contrary effect of these factors on the fresh and hard properties of the resulting scc.

Through the student's research entitled "tensile and compressive behavior of scc reinforced with fibers containing nano grains" the positive common effect of steel fibers, string fibers with or without nano silica on the mechanical properties of scc the field part

Involves studying the common effect of nano-silica materials with or without hybrid fibers (steel fibers, string fibers )on the fresh and hard properties of scc.

The experimental work involves two stages:

First stage : this involves results of some trails ,then mixes that comply with standard specification of fresh tests are chosen to consider slump test ,arrival time 500 , Lbox , Jring ,segregation strength sieve .

Second stage: this relates to hard properties tests (compressivestrength, modulus of elasticity, tensile and flexural strengths) in addition to density tests, water absorption,porosity, internal structure test for the selected mixes

The examining committee involved:

1.   Prof. Dr. Husham k. Ahmed / uot /chairman

2.   Assisst Prof Dr. Basil S. Shathir /uot/ member

3.   Assisst Prof. Dr. Ali T. Najim/kufa university /member

4.   Assisst Prof. Dr. Ma'anS.Hassan /uot/member and supervisor

5.   AssisstProf.Dr.Aqbal N. Gorgis /uot / member and supervisor

The examination debate was conducted in the morning of Sunday (august 30, 2015) in building and construction Eng. Dept. At 09:00 AM

The committee granted the student grade very good-high after listening to her answers and defend.

Congratulation to all

The University of Technology held its annual feast in the global woman’s day on 9^th ,March ,2015

His Excellency continued his speech about the glories of the Arab woman specially  the resistant Iraqi woman in supporting the man through the hardest conditions and stand side by side with him . Then he confirmed his confidence of the ability of woman in achieving works as the man by nomination her as a head of departments and centers such as the department  of Architecture ,computers ,nanotechnology center ,the representative of female faculty member in the University council .

Then the documentary film was presented regarding this occasion ,then lecture was held by Prof.Dr.  Hanan Abdul Ridha  from the electricity department where she presented important statistics about the rate of women to men in the university and  it was approaching the half .Then the lecture of Mrs.Nisreen Abdul Aaly from the higher center of human rights and it contains facts about rates of widows and illiterate  among emigrant women .

Finally His Excellency honored the ideal woman in each department regarding our department  Dr.Akbal Gorgees was honored as the faculty member and Mrs. Samira Jasim as an employee.

Congratulation to all female employees on their day .

PhD. Student “Abdul-Khaliq Kamal Kamal “Obtains “High excellent” in Environmental engineering 

In a study (composite nano Membrane containing Nano Materials to purify Water) a new type of nano membrane has been developed and made containing multi-walls carbon nano pipes (MWCNTs) in the support layer and MCM-41 in the thin layer.

At the beginning, the support layer was prepared by the wet phase reflection. Then a thin layer containing 0.5% of MCM-41) was spreaded on the support layer containing the following percentages: MWCNTs (0.0, 0.5, 0.4%) by interface polymerization using 2% MPD and 0.1% TMC.

Finally the practical applications have shown that it is possible to produce pure drinking water from the salty water of the third river.

As an actual result in site, the nano membranes containing 0.4 % of MWCTs in the support layer and 0.05 w % of MCM-41 in the thin layer were more stable and less losing in the jetting of the pure water  than the normal composite membranes empty of nano materials (TFC).

These characteristics can be explained in the possibility of anti-bacteria nano carbon pipes of its being of big pores in the support layer in addition to the porosity characteristics of nano material MCM-41.

The examination has been conducted in B&CED, on high studies Hall (Dr. Nima Amora Hall) at 9;00 Am Thursday (June 4, 2015).

The examination committee included:

Prof. Dr. Abbas Hamid S. / Baghdad University /Head

Prof. Dr. Adawiya J. Haider / UOT / Nanotechnology center / member

Assist. Prof. Dr. Basim Shabi’ Abd / Technical Education Trainees Preparation Institute / member

Assist. Prof. Dr. Shahlaa Ismael Ibrahim / Baghdad University / member

Assist. Prof. Dr.  Faris H. Al.Ani.

Joint Meeting - 09/06/2015

A joint meeting for the Organizing and Scientific Committees was held on Tuesday, the 09^th of June 2015. This meeting was attended by the Chairman of the International Advisory Committee; Professor Riadh Al-Mahaidi, Swinburne University, Australia. The main aim of this meeting was to discuss the presented proposal for publishing the Conference Proceedings with Elsevier Publishers. Many other logistic issues were discussed.

The University of Technology held its annual feast in the global woman’s day on 9^th ,March ,2015

His Excellency continued his speech about the glories of the Arab woman specially  the resistant Iraqi woman in supporting the man through the hardest conditions and stand side by side with him . Then he confirmed his confidence of the ability of woman in achieving works as the man by nomination her as a head of departments and centers such as the department  of Architecture ,computers ,nanotechnology center ,the representative of female faculty member in the University council .

Then the documentary film was presented regarding this occasion ,then lecture was held by Prof.Dr.  Hanan Abdul Ridha  from the electricity department where she presented important statistics about the rate of women to men in the university and  it was approaching the half .Then the lecture of Mrs.Nisreen Abdul Aaly from the higher center of human rights and it contains facts about rates of widows and illiterate  among emigrant women .

Finally His Excellency honored the ideal woman in each department regarding our department  Dr.Akbal Gorgees was honored as the faculty member and Mrs. Samira Jasim as an employee.

Congratulation to all female employees on their day .

Climate  Changes  and  its  Envir0nmental  Effects  in  Iraq  

Within the a activities of  B&CED in the UOT and coordination with the

Ministry of Environment  and  minis trial committe of climate changes

In the Research and Development Office a siminar entitled " Climate Changes  and its effects in Iraq " has been conducted at 9130 AM  Wednesday ( Jun 10 , 2015 ) on the Late Dr . Hussein M. Hussein Hall in B&CED , involving the following lectures :

·        Fram Agreements of climate changes and Iraqi National Inform

·        Modern Techniques in studying Environmental Phenomena Effecting climate Changes .

·        Researches and Scientific  Theses Supporting Climate Changes in the UOT .

The notes have been discussed about  these lectures and the recommendations are stated as :

First Recommendation :

The necessity to unify and support issuing legal regulations regulation s regarding climate changes and obliging ministries and foundations and private sector in the content of that to put a limit for the effect of factors influencing climate changes reported in the International Agreements .

Second Recommendation : 

Activating the first Iraqi National In form after approval on it by UN organization , which is achieved by the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with a committee of Iraqi experts and consultants from different ministries represented by the national committee of climate changes via clarifying to related parties land all a according

To climate changes via clarifying to related parties ( and all a according to their responsibities  ) the importance  of mitigating

buried gasses and elements effecting climate changes .

Third Recommendation : 

Presenting scientific problems facing related ministries regarding reducing  the effect of factors influencing climate changes and trying to form committees in the Ministry of tighter Education and the colleges and the Research centers to solve them via researches of l ltigh  studies or the scientific researches of the specialized professors throe Research and Development office I climate changes Committee .

Fourth Recommendation :

Inviting Universities and centers to communicate with the related ministries to present researches and theses in this area through developing data Bose in every university and supplying R / D  office with its results .

Fifth Recommendation :

Using alternative ( clean ) powers instead of  the traditional ones to limit their effects on climate changes and obliging ministries , offices, and private sector  to do so .

Sixth Recommendation :

Regarding vehicles , the necessity to transforming to public transport as a common means to cover the daily citizen,  activities instead of  the high usage of private vehicles to solve the problem of pollution activating the role of transportation , Trade , and pollution ministries to increase awareness generally for citizens to use that .

Seventh Recommendation : 

Coordination between the National committee for climate changes and Ministry of higher Education ( universities , colleges , centers ) effectively and homogenously for all specialties related and concentration on the media side especially the university channel and the readiness of the UOT  to take part effectively in this area through the scientific ability  available in the B& CED and Environment Research centre by preparing related scientific programs .

Teaching Members Dr. Qais Jawad and Dr. Waleed Abdulrazag obtain Invention Certificate on Nomination Invention .

Producing Light – Weight Concrete Marble from Iraqi Atablckite clays .

The research is in pdf form Ministry of Planning /  Central system of Standardization and Quality control .

Eigth Recommendation :

Modifying curriculums in the preparatory stage through adding extra  information in the field of studying climate effects beside enriching curriculums to be involving the importance of climate changes and their environmental  effect  through  focusing  on  first stage students of colleges in the departments  interested , and urging students of high studies to conduct their researches in the field of climate changes  by coordination between Ministry of Environment , Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research .

Participation of UOT Students in “Universities’ Debate” in Manama and Getting Second Grade among Arab Countries

   UOT Students have participated in the " Universities’ Debate " in the State of Bahrain within the activities of selecting Manama as first capital for Arab youth sponsored by the Arab League and the General Organization for Bahraini Youth and Sport. Ten Arab countries have taken part in the Debate including Sudan, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman. 

   Iraqi Flag was raised after three students, from the University of Technology, representing Iraq had got the second rank on the Arab world. Two of them were from Building and Construction Engineering Department: Imad Eddin Sami/Stage IV/ Environmental and Sanitary Engineering Branch, and Saud Bashar Abdul-Moneim/Stage II/ Roads and Bridges Engineering Branch. The third student was from Production and Metallurgy Engineering Department: Yasser Salih /Stage IV/ Production Engineering Branch.

   The competition was conducted via three participant students from each Arab State presenting the required evidences to prove their attitude and state its being true to enhance students’ leadership role and improve the art of speech and the education of the opinion and the other opinion acceptance. The subjects of debate were those concerning Arab youth and handling the situations they live in. The activities involved also a training workshop on “Ability to Leading”. Besides, the activities involved visits to Bahrain’s Museum, Thousand Islamic Inventions and Invention Museum, and Al-Muharraq Heritage Market; and other activities that enhance relations between Arab Homeland’s youth and enforce their Arabic identity. All competition’s trainers and rulers praised the remarkable development in speech and conversational approaches of Iraqi students.

Starting Postgraduate and First Stage Exams in Building and

Construction Engineering Dept.

Head of Building and Construction Dept. Meets Graduates for communication and Upgrading together

Head of Building and Construction Dept. Prof. Dr. Riyad Hassan Al-Anbary met Graduates in the late Prof. Dr. Hussein Mohammad Hussein Hall in Feb. 23^rd (ten o'clock in the morning) which will be celebrated annually as the “Graduates Day”

In the beginning of the meeting the head of the department welcomed the graduates. Then, he presented the most important developments in the department on all scientific and practical levels, how the building of the department has been developed and the continuous seeking to improve services in it. He talked about acceptance in higher studies referring that the number of students now is 304 students. He called all to utilize this opportunity as well as higher diploma study which excludes conditions of average and age, and will involve six specialties next year instead of three this year (accommodating 41 students).

The head of the department said that the purpose of this meeting is enhancing friendliness and cooperation between the department and graduates in order to obtain a good result and relationship in the work market at which the graduate works. He expressed his hope to involve the graduates in the curriculums modification committee because the studying system in the department has been changed from annual to course system and it becomes necessary to prepare the first year student in the general specialty to enter the suitable specialty (through adopting 50% of preparatory grade and 50% of first year grade) in the next stage.

He referred to the scientific journal to publish researches paying the attention to the necessity of cooperation and spreading activities and asserting that the department is going forward to reach world quality and dependency. He said that the aim is realized via increasing the number of the students accepted in high studies to achieve the rule: “For each teaching member, the number of students should be not less than 10”

He referred also to the creation of “Graduates’ Following-up Unit” under the responsibility of Dr. Basman Riyad Mohammed for communication with graduates through their own emails.

He suggested conducting a program of weekly lectures with titles, for example “First Month to New Engineer” which is introductive for the graduates who start working newly to get benefit from the senior ones.

Questionnaires  prepared by the Quality Assurance Section in the department have been distributed

(questionnaire of evaluating educational programs by graduates).

 The aim of this questionnaire is to get feedback from graduates about the quality of educational programs in the department in order to diagnose points of strength and weakness of these programs.

At the end of the meeting, administrative Assistant Dr. Falah Hassan called graduates to take a photo with them to document the meeting (inside the department) and another on the runway of the university stadium

Holding the Third Meeting of Engineering Colleges Deans Committee for the academic year 2014-2015

Hosted by the Engineering college/ Karbala University, and in the atmosphere of Al-Hussein city for visitors, the third meeting of engineering colleges deans committee for the academic year 2014-2015 was held under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Riyad Hassan Al-Anbary, Head of Building and Construction Engineering Department, and the presence of the department representative in the committee Prof. Dr. Abdul-Razaq Tarish and the committee organizer Assist. Prof. Dr. Nasreen Mohammed Salih, Wednesday Feb. 25^th, 2015 to discuss the engineering modifications and studies and the new syllabuses

in view of importance of students' formal documents, their being secrete and correct and their being of quick handling, building and construction engineering dept. has held a seminar entitled " USING RAPID RESPONSE CODE TECHNIQUE IN ISSUING STUDENTS' DOCUMENTS " in the conference hall at contral and systems eng. Dept. in the university Sunday (august 23 /2015) sponsored by the university president and attended by the heads of building dept. and control and system dept.

The workshop started with an introduction on "rapid response code technique" presented by Dr.wailShawqi and was followed by a quick review for electronic system prepared by building and construction Eng. Dept. presented by assist. Lect. Ahmed abdulammerjabbar .

Electronic stamp technique has been discussed the technique has been prepared by a committee in the department, and it represents a qualitative jump in shortening managerial cycle followed in formulating documents issuing verification. Thetechnique, in case it is applied in all offices, will make it possible to check the document verification electronically through severalsecond.

The head of the building and construction  engineering dep. attended a scientific seminar entitled Nanotechnology for Sustainable Concrete Development  in collaboration with the American Concrete Institute

 The ACI Iraq Chapter ,because of his interest in concrete, the correct ways to deal with it, and the most up to date  related issues, is presenting in collaboration with the University of Technology, Building and Construction Eng. Dept. a scientific seminar entitled “Nanotechnology for Sustainable Concrete Development”. The seminar was held on 20^th of April, 2015. It was introduce several topics in regard to the sustainable design and use of concrete and the role of nanotechnology. Audiences were faculty members, postgraduate students, experts and seiner Engineers from the fields. 

Holding the Third Meeting of Engineering Colleges Deans Committee for the academic year 2014-2015

Hosted by the Engineering college/ Karbala University, and in the atmosphere of Al-Hussein city for visitors, the third meeting of engineering colleges deans committee for the academic year 2014-2015 was held under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Riyad Hassan Al-Anbary, Head of Building and Construction Engineering Department, and the presence of the department representative in the committee Prof. Dr. Abdul-Razaq Tarish and the committee organizer Assist. Prof. Dr. Nasreen Mohammed Salih, Wednesday Feb. 25^th, 2015 to discuss the engineering modifications and studies and the new syllabuses

Holding the Third Meeting of Engineering Colleges Deans Committee for the academic year 2014-2015

Hosted by the Engineering college/ Karbala University, and in the atmosphere of Al-Hussein city for visitors, the third meeting of engineering colleges deans committee for the academic year 2014-2015 was held under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Riyad Hassan Al-Anbary, Head of Building and Construction Engineering Department, and the presence of the department representative in the committee Prof. Dr. Abdul-Razaq Tarish and the committee organizer Assist. Prof. Dr. Nasreen Mohammed Salih, Wednesday Feb. 25^th, 2015 to discuss the engineering modifications and studies and the new syllabuses

University President Honors “Ideal Mother” in celebration of “Mother’s Day” in Training and Workshops Center