The Lecturer Moqdad Abdul Wahab Al Khatib, Head of the Sustainable Development Department at the Environmental Research Center at the University of Technology has been awarded three certificates of appreciation for the gradual completion of the MOOC course, the open and open course of the course;
 The eight units of the course and the participants' assessments are supervised by a specialized scientific team from the Stockholm Resilience Center and chaired by Prof. Johan Rockstrom, Director of the Center.
 The three stages of certification represent the progress of the trainee in obtaining the highest scores in the tests starting from obtaining 50% (Sustainable Citizen) through the rate of 70% (Planetary Steward) and ending with the third certificate (the last) after obtaining more than 90% Champion of the Biosphere).

The Department of Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Technology held seminars for postgraduate students in the discussion room in the department in the presence of the assistant head of the department for scientific affairs and postgraduate studies Assist. Prof. dr. Amjad Jalil Hamidi , Assistant Head of Department for Administrative Affairs. Assist. Prof. dr.Mohammed Yousif Hassan, the heads of the branches and a number of professors of the department and a number of graduate students in the department and the students who directed their research are Bakr Ali Ibrahim in his research on the design of a system aware of the automatic mechanization of the mines and Zainab Khdair Abbas on the design of a system for the identification and follow-up people with analysis of the behavior and Mariam Laith Abdul Majid for finding the optimal paths in computer networks and the division of their performance and Ahmed Idris for an analytical study in the techniques of bottlenecks in Internet networks and the effects of Jaafar for positioning using the Wi-Fi signal with the application on the mobile robot.

The Center for Continuous Education at the University of Technology has organized a course on chemical safety in chemical laboratories and stores for the period 21-25 / 5/2017 with the participation of trainees representing the Oil Pipeline Company and the General Company for Fertilizers.
 The aim of the course is to raise the level of awareness and performance of laboratory and warehouse workers who are in contact with various types of chemicals and their uses.
 Its curriculum includes classification of chemicals according to known global classifications, chemical procurement, transportation, storage and inventory of chemicals.
 Lectures were delivered at the session by dr. Azhar Mahmoud from the Environmental Research Center.

Dr. Imad Hussain Marza Al-Husseini, Head of Communications Engineering Department at the University of Technology, was elected as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Iraqi Journal of Computer Engineering, Communications and Control.
 The editorial board of the journal was joined by Prof.Dr. Mohamed Zaki Hussein (Nahrain University / Faculty of Information Engineering), Prof. Dr. Jaber Salman Aziz (Nahrain University / Faculty of Engineering) and Prof.Dr. Glyn Jalil Esteifian (University of Information and Communication Technology) And Prof. Jawad Kazim Ali (University of Technology / Electrical Engineering), Prof. Dr. Ali Yousif Fattah (University of Technology / Communications Engineering), and Assist. Prof. Dr. Safana Mudhour (University of Technology / Engineering Control Systems), Assist. Prof. .Dr. Shibli Ahmed Hameed (University of Technology / Engineering Systems Control).
 The new committee discussed in its meeting (which was held in the department) a table of inviting the competent authorities to set up a website for the magazine, financial and administrative affairs, and researches submitted for evaluation and publication in accordance with the standards for the scientific journals issued by the ministry and according to the precise specialization of the magazine to select residents with competence and strict specialization and contexts. The electronic follow-up to the completion of the requirements of the work as well as working to raise the level of the magazine to specialized magazines and specialized in proportion to the reputation of the University of Technology as one of the journals issued by this prestigious university.

The Council of the Department of Electromechanical Engineering held a meeting with the Council of Experts from various Iraqi ministries for the academic year 2016-2017 on Thursday 18/5/2017 in the Council hall.
 The head of the electromechanical engineering department, Assist.prof.Dr. Hisham Selim, began the meeting by welcoming the members of the Expert Council before giving a brief about the purpose of this meeting to allow the teaching of Prof. Jalal Mohammed Jalil to provide a simplified presentation of the association of experts with ABET reliability. Self-report writing.
 The heads of the three branches in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering presented a schedule of lessons for each branch. The curricula were carefully discussed and some observations were made by the members of the Council of Experts and were limited to certain points to make some changes to the curricula according to those observations.