Postgraduate exams for the second electronic semester of the academic year 2019/2020 for the Chemical Engineering Department / University of Technology began on Sunday morning 14/06/2020 using Google Classroom online stage. The exams took place with ease and success, and were preceded by words of welcome through the president of university and the university president deputy for scientific affairs. The students were encouraged to take this experience with wishes for success and excellence. The exams were conducted under the supervision of the head of department, the scientific deputy, and members of the Postgraduate Studies Examination Committee. Where all the preparations have been completed during the past days and many training workshops for the faculty members and the students have been held for technical training on the Google Classroom platform on which the exam will be conducted.

The Chemical Engineering Department held a workshop entitled (Programming the Academic Profile) as directed by the Presidency of the University and the Information Technology Center to create and program an academic file for faculty members in all departments of the university. The workshop on this profile was held on Thursday 01/30/2020 at Dar Al- Salam Hall and was attended by the head of the Chemical Engineering Department Asst. Prof. Dr. Jamal Manee Al-Rubeai, both administrative and scientific deputies of the head of the department, the heads of the three branches in the department and a number from the faculty members with a group of the staff from the department. The lecture was given by Safa Amin, responsible for the Internet unit in the department of Chemical Engineering. The lecture pointed to the valuable efforts of Dr. Ghassan Al-Sultani; Director of the Information Technology Center and the website division in the Information Technology Center in this regard.

Prof. Dr. Thamer Jassim Muhammad participated in the International Conference on Nanotechnology and Applications - at Salahaddin University, which was held in Erbil Governorate - Kurdistan / Cultural Center in cooperation with the University of Malaya - Malaysia - and the Industrial Research and Development Authority in the Ministry of Industry and Minerals for the period 22-23/1/2020. During the conference, scientific research was given under the title: [Enhancing Oily Wastewater Treatment in Petroleum Industry Using Magnetite Nano-particles]. This research is based on the master’s dissertation of the student Hadeel Attia, which was delivered on the second day of the conference, the first session. The conference proceedings included the opening of the conference, which was attended by: the Minister of Industry and Minerals, the Minister of Industry and Trade in the Kurdistan Region, President of Salahaddin University, the scientific advisor to the Minister of Industry and Minerals, and the Director General of the Industrial Research and Development Authority. At the end of the conference, certificates of appreciation were awarded to the participants.

The Chemical Engineering Department holds the general staff meeting of the faculty on Sunday, February 16/202. The meeting was chaired by the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department, Asst. Prof. Dr. Jamal Manee Ali Al-Rubeai. The meeting was attended by both administrative and scientific deputies of the head of the department, as well as the heads of the three branches in the department. Where the current reality of the official working hours was discussed, and the university presidency directives were reviewed in this regard, and guidance was provided by the head of the department on finding alternative ways to deliver the curriculum lectures to students as well as take advantage of all the time allotted for the lectures. Also, emphasis on activating electronic classes and conducting electronic exams to compensate for the delay in giving lectures due to the conditions the country is going through, developing the work of the department’s laboratories and following up on accepted students. In addition to following up the curriculum system in the first stage, during the meeting, the opinions of faculty members and their interventions on the continuation and development of the educational process in the department were heard during the meeting.