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.