On Monday, 13/3/2022, the Department of Materials Engineering held an awareness seminar entitled (Summer training and its importance) at Dar Al-Salam Hall / Center for Continuing Education, in the presence of the Head of the Materials Engineering Department (Assist. Prof. Dr. Hussein Alaa Jaber), the scientific assistant (Prof. Dr. Jawad Kazem Olaiwi) and the administrative assistant (Assist. Prof. Dr. Laith Waddah Ismail). The seminar speech was delivered by Assist. Prof. Dr. Sarmad Imad Ibrahim/ Summer Training Unit Officer, Lect. Dr. Nadia Aziz Butti, Lect. Dr. Ishraq Abdul Razzaq Kazem and Assist. Lect. Aws Moayad Mahdi.

The symposium aimed to educate students about summer training by experiencing the practical reality and moving away from the academic and theoretical atmosphere, in addition to introducing students to the most important goals of summer training, which is one of the requirements for graduation, as well as introducing students to the terms and conditions of summer training and the duration of training for students of our department.

In addition, guiding the students on the tiring mechanism of summer training in the training sites and the criteria of evaluating the trainer by the practical and the scientific supervisors, and educating the students about the most important cases of failure to meet the summer training, which is the most common for the trainee students.

At the end of the symposium, certificates of appreciation were awarded to the lecturers.