The Department of Materials Engineering conducted a three-minute dissertation competition for master and PhD postgraduate students in the department on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, at 9.00 am in the postgraduate studies hall/building B, in the presence of Head of the Department Prof. Dr. Jawad Kadhim Olaiwi, and Lect. Dr. Haider Alaa Saleh, and the official of the scholarship investment unit the competition committee consisted of:

1. Prof. Dr. Kazem Matar Shabib, President
2. Prof. Dr. Alaa Alaa El-Din Abdel Hamid, member
3. Assist. Prof. Dr. Fatima Jaafar Muhammad, member
4. Assist. Prof. Dr. Khaled Khudair Abbas, member
5. Lect. Dr. Ali Abdul Karim Mohsen, member

Doctoral students participated in the competition

1. Doaa Jabbar Mustafa Hassoun on her tagged thesis

(Green Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocomposites Particles In Advance Concrete)

2. Russell Ali Tariq about her thesis titled

(Improvement the skin care products by polymer addition)

3. Omar Nazim Qasim Hamo for his tagged thesis

(Electrostatic Coating of Hybrid Bioactive glass)

4. Furqan Majeed Saadi Majeed for his tagged thesis

(Improving the properties of composite material for medical applications)

While master's students participated

1. Nour Abdel Nasser Hamid for her tagged dissertation

"Effect of Waste Materials Contents in genous Self-Healing of Concretes"

2. AYnoor Ibrahim Ali Jan for her tagged dissertation

"Fabrication and Characterization of Hybrid Composite Tissue Engineering Scaffold  for Bone Growth by Electrospun"

3. Israa Abdullah Hussein for her tagged dissertation

"Investigate the effect of nano-materials additives on the performance of ultrafiltration membranes for wastewater treatment application"

Assist. Prof. Dr. Sarmad Imad Ibrahim, Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Technology, received a scientific promotion from the rank of assistant professor to the rank of professor for fulfilling all the requirements for academic promotion while enjoying all the rights and privileges that this rank entitles him to, according to university order No. 137 dated 2024/ 2/26.

The Department of Materials Engineering conducted a field scientific visit to the Environmental Center at the University of Technology on Sunday, 25/2/ 2024. The visit targeted students of the fourth stage/Polymeric and Petrochemical Materials Engineering Branch, under the supervision of a number of the department’s teaching staff. During the visit, the center’s facilities, existing equipment, and methods for conducting laboratory and field tests were reviewed.

The Materials Engineering Department, within the activities of the Educational and Psychological Counseling Division, held a workshop entitled:

  "First aid and occupational safety"

This was on Monday, 26/2/ 2024, at 10:30 a.m. in Hall No. 4 in the courtyard of Building A, where Dr. Shaima Mahdi Saleh. The workshop targeted third-year students in the Polymeric and Petrochemical Materials Engineering Branch working in chemical laboratories to familiarize them with the principles of safety in laboratories and the first aid procedures that must be taken.