Civil Engineering Department hold a lecture title:(Immunization of university students from terrorist thought). The lecture was delivered by Dr. Qassem Hadi Moussa and Mr.Mohamed Abdel Latif Khattab. The lecture was attended by a group of students of the department from all branches and stages and some of the professors of the department.

The lecture included the definition of terrorism and its causes and damage and the factors that led to the phenomenon and how to eliminate the thought of terrorism and the role of the university in that and then opened the opportunity to questions and discussion and participated a number of students and professors in this debate.

From the principle of scientific cooperation between the university and the private sector, the Civil Engineering Department / Geomatics Engineering Branch held a scientific lecture entitled:

(Modern technologies in surveying devices)

On Wednesday 13/3/2019 on the concrete laboratory hall in the Department delivered the lecture by Mr. Mohamed Hamza Sultani from the Al Sadoof Company.

In the presence of Hasan Hamodi Jony Head of Civil Engineering Department, Abdul Razzaq Tarash Zaboun, Head of Geomatics Engineering Branch, and a number of teaching and laboratory staff and students of the department.

With a beautiful initiative of the third stage students of the structural engineering branch in the Civil Engineering Department and in cooperation with the publishing houses , the book exhibition was opened at the University of Technology on Sunday 17/3/2019 until 1/4/2019 in the courtyard of the Civil Engineering Department where the exhibition contains more than 200 titles of books and novels the aim of the establishment of this exhibition is to provide a variety of books disseminating culture among students.

Department of Civil Engineering Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Branch organized a scientific trip for the students of the third and fourth stage on Tuesday, 19/3/2019 to the wastewater treatment project in Rustamiya under the supervision of a number of the academic staff of the department, including Dr. Zineb Bahaa Dr. Ghayda Yasin Dr. Ghafran Farooq, Dr. Ayat Hussain, Faiza Ahmad, Alaa Qassem, Ahmed Foad and Zaid Al – Anbari.

During the scientific visit, the students learned about the main parts of the project and the treatment methods used from the beginning of the entry of waste water to the project and until the treatment of treated water is sent to the river.

The students said that such scientific trips are very important to them, and they were keen to make the most of them in identifying, exploring and inquiring to connect theoretical aspects in their studies with practical aspects.

The Civil Engineering Department at the University of Technology holds seminars for postgraduate students in Water and Hydraulic Structures Engineering Branch to discuss the students' research in front of Asst. Prof Dr. Mohammud Salih Chairman branch and number of academic staff

The students who gave their presentations are:

• Rana Dia

Assessment and Mitigation of Sediment Yield for Hemrin Dam watershed

• Hunain Jawad

Evaluation of Seawater Intrusion  in Coastal Aquifer and Possibility of Control the Salt Intrusion

• Ali Safih

Re evaluation of earthquake effects on the stability of Himreen Dam

• Fouad Hassan

Modelling water quality and quantity in the Iraqi marshes, a case study (Abu-Ziriq Marsh).

• Mustafa Talib Sharif

Modeling of Groundwater Quality of River Area in Iraq Using GMS model

• Mona Galal

Calibration of selected discharge measuring

• Mona Suleiman

Comparative Stability Analysis of Different Shapes of Elevated Water Storage Tanks Exposed to Earthquakes