As part of the scientific and cultural activities of the first semester of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Technology for the academic year 2017-2018, the department held discussion seminar on "Optical Communication" at Degla Hall in the department in the presence of the Head of Electrical Engineering Department Asst.Prof.Dr.Dari Yousif Mahmoud and scientific assistant Asst.Prof.Dr. Abbas Hussein Issa, administrative assistant Asst.Prof.Dr. Kanaan Ali Jalal and heads of scientific branches and a number of teachers and staffof the department.The seminar was presented by Asst.Prof.Dr. Sinan Abboud Majid, Asst.Prof.Dr. Abdulrahman Hussain and Asst.Lect. Ali. Nouri. 
The course highlighted the achievements made in the field of using light for communications and for thousands of years by humanity, the United Nations World Organization has set a year to commemorate these achievements named the International Year of Light and Light Based Technologies, and one of these achievements is the optical communications.

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.

The Department of Electromechanical Engineering at the University of Technology held its scientific symposium entitled "Development of Engineering Education through the Problems of the Field of Work in the Curricula of Energy Engineering and Renewable Energies" in the presence of the Administrative Assistant of the President of the University of Technology Asst.Prof.Dr. Sami Abu Al-Non and the head of Electromechanical Engineering Asst.Prof.Dr. Hisham Saleem , number of members of the Baghdad Provincial Council, representatives of the Ministry of Electricity and a number of department heads, professors and university professors.The head of the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Dr. Hisham Salim Enyed, gave a welcoming speech in which he thanked the attendees for the invitation. He expressed his hope that this symposium will lead to several recommendations that will contribute to solving many of the problems in the electric power stations and introducing them in the school curriculum Energy and Renewable Energy Engineering.The session was chaired by Asst.Prof.Dr. Muhannad Zaidan Khalifa and Lect.Dr. Ahlam Luaibi as its reporter and it was of three lecturers. The first was given by Prof. Dr. Jalal Mohamed Jalil, a lecturer at the department, entitled "Curriculum development by vaccinating them with field problems." The second lecture was given by the assistant director General Department of Planning and Studies Department of Renewable Energy in the Ministry of Electricity Dr. Eng. Qassem Kazem Hanihan on models of problems of power plants while the third lecture was given by the head of the training and development at the Wasit power station Professor Hisham Majid Adai entitled models of problems of steam stations.The scientific symposium ended with several recommendations, the most important of which is the start of the implementation of the project of vaccinating the methods of the branch of energy engineering and renewable energies with the problems of the field of work from different generation stations with the Ministry of Electricity and expanding the project to include the other sections of the department with the various ministries of the state.

Within the activities of scientific and cultural activity for the first semester of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Technology for the academic year 2017-2018  the department held a Seminar discussion titled                  

(performance Indicator and Rubric

On Dijla hall in the department with the presence of the Head of Electrical Engineering Department, Assist.Prof. Dari Yousef Mahmoud, and the scientific ,administrative deputy, Assist.Prof. Abbas Hussain Issa and the, Dr. Kanaan Ali Jalal, heads of scientific branches and a number of the Lecturers of the department and its staff.

The lecture was delivered by Dr. Mohamed Mounes Ezzeddine Ali and Dr. Mohamed Khodair Abdul, which presented the method of assessing the extent to which students acquire skills and abilities based on the performance index, the scale and presentation of the method of preparing the ABET table.

Within the activities of scientific and cultural activity for the first semester of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Technology for the academic year 2017-2018, the department held a lecture titled (Software Defined Radio New Trend in Implementation of the Advanced Systems) on the Dijla hall with the presence of the head of the electrical engineering department, Assist.Prof. Dari Yousef Mahmoud, and the scientific and Administrative Deputy Assist. Prof. Abbas Husain Issa and the director, Dr. Kanaan Ali Jalal, the heads of the scientific branches and a number of the teachers of the department and its staff.

The seminar focused(SDR) on the new technologies that are unique in terms of flexibility, accuracy, small size and cost, through which the generations of modern communications systems that will be developed in the future (G4, G5, G6 and G7) On the use of software and loaded into information processing units.

The lecture was given by Assist.Prof. Hadi Tarash Zebun , Lecturer.  Jaber Hamid Majid and Lecturer Assist.Muhannad Yousef Mohsen.