In continuation of the procedures of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering to prepare for applying for engineering program accreditation, the department conducted a questionnaire for the learning outcomes of fourth-stage students, in the presence of members of the department council headed by Prof. Dr. Fadel Sarhan Kazem, the scientific assistant, Prof. Dr. Najm Abdul Kadhim Al-Rubaie, and the administrative assistant, Prof. Dr. Ramzi Sayhoud. Hamid, the head of the branch, Prof. Imad Abdel Hussein Fakher, and the Quality Division official, Dr. Anwar Nazim Muhammad Ali, on Wednesday, 5/15/2024, in the conference hall.

The questionnaire included information about the ability to define and solve engineering problems, engineering design, data analysis and interpretation, the ethical responsibilities of an engineer, an appropriate learning strategy, and the ability to work effectively within a team.

A delegation from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research / Committee for Evaluating the Academic and Scientific Reality of Colleges of Engineering visited the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

The ministerial delegation consisted of Dr. Jaafar Sadiq Maatouq, Dr. Fayez Fawzi Mustafa, and Dr. Ali Abdel Khaleq Abdel Hadi. They were received by the head of the department, Prof. Dr. Fadel Sarhan Kazem, the administrative assistant, Prof. Dr. Ramzi Sayhoud Hameed, the Quality Division official, Dr. Anwar Nazim, and the Division official. Laboratories, Dr. Jihad Hussein, and the laboratory quality unit official, M. M. Shahnaz Basem.

The delegation conducted a field tour of the department building and was briefed on the occupational safety conditions in the laboratories, teachers’ rooms, the chemical materials warehouse, the quality, registration, documents and information technology divisions, the promotion committee, the examination committee, the department library, as well as the new halls in the department.

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The President of the University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Hassan Al-Ghabban, honored the distinguished researchers and teachers for the year 2023-2024 for all scientific departments and centers, in the presence of the scientific assistant, Prof. Dr. Khawla Salah Khashan, and the administrative assistant, Prof. Dr. Farhad Muhammad Othman and a number of teaching staff and associates, on Wednesday, 5/22/2024, in the hall of the Computer Engineering Department.

The Department of Oil and Gas Engineering honored the head of the branch, Prof. Imad Abdel Hussein Fakher, and the lecturer, Prof. Prof. Salam Abdel Nabi Thajeel, as the University President presented shields and certificates of appreciation to all the honorees for their distinguished scientific efforts in the field of scientific research.

The head of the department received Prof. Dr. Fadel Sarhan Kazem, a delegation from the Chinese Anton Oil Company, on Thursday, 5/23/2024, in the department building.

 The two sides discussed ways of cooperation in the field of employing and training the department’s students, where it was agreed that the date of the interviews for the fourth stage students would be for the period from 9-14/6/2024 for the purpose of selecting distinguished students.

Under the slogan “For National Industries Free of Corrosion” and under the patronage of the President of the University, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Hassan Al-Ghabban, and under the supervision of the Head of the Production and Minerals Engineering Department, Prof. Muhannad Muhammad Hussein Al-Khafaji, the Production and Minerals Engineering Department organized in cooperation with the Chemical Engineering Department, the Oil and Gas Engineering Department, and the Center Iraqi Corrosion Center / Ministry of Industry and Minerals and Research and Development Center / Ministry of Oil A specialized scientific engineering symposium under the title: (Corrosion in national industries) on Thursday, 5/2/2024, in the hall of the late Professor Jassim Al-Hayani in the building of the Production and Minerals Engineering Department, in the presence of the Assistant President of the University. For Administrative Affairs, Prof. Dr. Farhad Muhammad Othman, heads of scientific departments and research centers, and a large number of teachers and researchers from inside and outside the university

The symposium’s activities included three axes: the first axis was corrosion in oil industries, the second was about corrosion in electrical industries, and the third axis was about oil pollution and its environmental damage.

The symposium opened with verses from the Holy Quran and the Iraqi national anthem, followed by a speech by the Head of the Production and Minerals Engineering Department, Prof. Muhannad Muhammad Hussein Al-Khafaji, in which he stressed the importance of the symposium in exploring the most common engineering and physical dimensions of the corrosion phenomenon, including its causes, mechanisms, and techniques used to combat and reduce it. Of its effects.

The first session was headed by Prof. Muhannad Hussein Al-Khafaji and the rapporteur of Prof. Dr. Ali Mazhar Rassan of two research papers. The first was delivered by Prof. Dr. Fadel Sarhan Kazem, Head of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering, entitled Corrosion in the Petroleum Industries. The second was about corrosion in every place and in every day of life, delivered by A. Dr. Sami Ibrahim Al-Rubaie, Prof. Dr. Firas Farhan Sayed, Prof. Dr. Ali Munther Mustafa, and Prof. Mahdi Matar Hanoun. The third paper was about the role of corrosion research centers in solving corrosion problems in national industries. It is a joint paper between the center Petroleum Research and Development/The Iraqi Ministry of Oil and the Iraqi Center for Corrosion/The Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals, while the second session, chaired by Prof. Dr. Najm Abdul Kadhim Al-Rubaie, Scientific Assistant for the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering, and the rapporteur of Prof. Dr. Khaled Hamid Rashid, presented two research papers, the first on oil pollution. And methods of treating A.D. Salman Hussein Abbas and the second on corrosion problems in steam turbines of electric power stations and methods of treating their corrosion, delivered by Prof. Dr. Sami Abu Al-Nun Ajeel and Prof. Dr. Ali Mazhar Rassan.

The symposium came out with many recommendations, the most important of which are: taking the necessary measures to prevent corrosion during the design stage by companies and institutions, increasing interest in the issue of corrosion in Iraqi universities and institutes and introducing it as a main subject in the curricula of the relevant scientific engineering departments, the necessity of introducing artificial intelligence technology in solving and treating corrosion problems in Companies, increasing cooperation and interaction between universities and work fields on the subject of corrosion, opening corrosion centers in Iraqi universities and industrial institutions, especially those suffering from the problem of corrosion, supplying universities with advanced corrosion devices to keep pace with technological progress in the world, subscribing to scientific journals specialized in corrosion by the university. And government institutions and encourage the completion of experiments in the research and projects of postgraduate students, including reducing the fees for laboratory tests, as well as holding workshops and seminars and forming special committees in ministries, reinforced by university professors, to develop solutions to the problem of corrosion in national industries and to know the losses caused by corrosion in Iraq annually.

In conclusion, certificates of appreciation were distributed to the researchers for their distinguished role in the success of the symposium.