The Water and Hydraulic Structures Engineering Branch in the Civil Engineering Department held seminars for doctoral graduate students on 4/4/2022 in the discussion room in the department to discuss the students’ researches path

The discussion session was attended by the Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. Hassan Hamoudi Johnny, and the Head of the Water Engineering and Hydraulic Facilities Branch, Prof. Dr. Jaafar Sadiq Maatouk, a group of the branch staff, supervisors, and postgraduate students in the department :.

- Alaa Hassan Nima Hussein

 Ruaa Khaled Hamdan Abdullah

Riyadh Abdel-Abbas Ali Kazem

Zainab Kazem Jabal Obaid

Abdul Razzaq Khader Abdul Wahed

Fouad Hussein Saeed Manea

Nour Sabah Abbas Khalaf

Jawad Kazem Muhammad

Zeinab Deccan Abbas

Fatima Habib Kazem

Mahmoud Jassim Muhammad

- Nasser Khalaf Muhaisen

Nour Qassem Sabri

During the seminars, the researches were discussed and valuable interventions were presented by the professors to evaluate the research path by asking accurate scientific questions related to the research.

With the presence of the Head of the Water and Facilities Engineering Branch, Prof. Dr. Jaafar Sadiq Maatouk,the branch  rapporteur, and the department's director of graduate studies, the  branch held a workshop titled: "Graduation requirements for postgraduate students."

Several graduate students working on the branch's research project participated in the session. The keynote speaker was Dr.Ahmed Shamkhi Jabr, (Director of the Graduate Studies Division). The workshop's subjects included the following:

1-Important details concerning the electronic citation program are listed on the first axis (Turnitin).

2-Microsoft Word usage in thesis and dissertation.

3-Graduation and publication requirements in Scopus and Clarivate.

Within the scientific activities conducted by the Civil Engineering Department, the Highway and Bridges Engineering Branch in the department had a scientific trip to one of the investment projects, which is Al- Nakhla Residential Towers project / Al-Muthanna Airport Road for the students of the fourth stage of Roads and Bridges Engineering Branch with the students of the Building Engineering and Project Management branch on Thursday, 31 /3 / 2022.

A group of Civil Engineering Department staff went on the trip also, headed by the Head of the Roads and Bridges Engineering Branch, Dr. Makki Kamel Mohsen, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Latif Mahmoud, and Lec. Humam Hassan Mohammed and Lec. Almas Faraj Muhammad with a number of fourth-year students of the roads and bridges engineering, construction, and project management branches.

The trip was made to see the methods of implementation of the various work paragraphs, to deepen the practical and practical side, and to develop the practical spirit to realize the information and knowledge that students receive theoretically at the university.

During the scientific trip, the university staff and project management adequately explained and answered all the students’ questions. The students interacted in a very good way and benefited from the information they received on the site. Thanks were given to the project management for giving our students this opportunity to visit the project and see most of the implementation details.

Under the patronage of the Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. Hassan Hamoudi Johnny, the electronic class laboratory members in the department held a course on (Preparation of a Chief Auditor according to ISO 9001/2015) for the period 27-31/3/2022.

This course included the candidate obtaining an international auditor certificate with a membership identity granted by IRCA that qualifies him to lead the audit team within the committees formed at the university or the ministry. The holder of this certificate will have a good experience in completing and achieving the internal audit of the quality management system within the Laboratory Quality Classification Program (G.L.P) and verifying the application of the procedural modalities paragraphs, in addition to obtaining information on how to raise the level of the international classification of the university within the planned standards, and this certificate allows him to be accredited. The audit performed for any college or university.

The lectures were given by:

Prof. Dr. Mazen Badri Ahmed / Quality Systems Consultant

Prof. Majed Ahmed Ali / Quality Systems Consultant / Chief Auditor

A number of the department's laboratories members, the head of the quality assurance and university performance department, and the university's laboratories accreditation official participated in this course.

Under the attention of the University of Technology President, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Al-Ghabban, and under supervision of the respected Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. Hasan Hamodi Joni.

At 10:00 am, Thursday, March 31, 2022, the Construction Engineering and Project Management Branch / Civil Engineering Department held a workshop entitled (Accreditation criteria and their effect on the development of engineering education outcomes) in cooperation with the Iraqi Council for the Accreditation of Engineering Education Programs.

A number of department heads and university staff have been attended to the Civil Engineering Department professors and staff members of the department. The Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. Hasan Hamodi Joni opened the workshop and he praised the outstanding work of the professors to set up such scientific workshops to serve the scientific process.

Led the workshop the following proffesors:

1- Prof. Dr. Ziyad Suleiman Muhammad Khalid

2- Asst. Prof. Dr.  Ali Nagy Attia

3- Prof. Dr. Jalal Muhammed Jalil

The workshop included discussion interventions by the attendees.

In the end, the appreciated certificates were awarded to the guests and participants of the workshop.