Based on the directives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Presidency of the Technological University regarding linking the academic aspect with the labor market in the public and private sectors, the Industrial Advisory Council at the College of Chemical Engineering held its periodic meeting for the academic year 2023/2024 headed by Professor Dr. Khaled Ajami Sakr in the presence of expert professors and consultants representing employers in the industrial and production sectors on Wednesday 7/8/2024. During the meeting, the new curricula prepared according to the Bologna process for all academic stages were discussed. The observations and proposals submitted by the industrial expert professors from the members of the Advisory Council were approved. On the other hand, the vision, mission, and objectives were discussed, as well as their compatibility with the scientific openness that seeks to prepare chemical engineers who keep pace with the latest scientific developments in the labor market and the requirements of sustainable development. The members of the Industrial Advisory Council from employers praised the college's efforts in aligning the curricula of students with the actual needs that support the development of graduates' skills. It is worth noting that the College of Chemical Engineering includes three scientific departments: Chemical Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Oil Refining, and Chemical Engineering and Oil Pollution.

Based on the vision of the University of Technology, which pays great attention to the practical and field application aspect, students of the College of Chemical Engineering began the summer training program that aims to develop the students' applied scientific capabilities. Among the most important operational sites in which training was conducted are the oil companies and sites affiliated with the Ministry of Oil, the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Electricity. This step comes from linking the practical and theoretical aspect of the student and reviewing the industrial and production reality on the ground, as the student implements two months of summer training distributed by one month in the second phase and another month in the third phase. It is worth noting that the College of Chemical Engineering includes three scientific departments: Chemical Process Engineering, Oil Refining Engineering and Oil Pollution Treatment Engineering. These specializations qualify their graduates to work in factories, refineries, petrochemical complexes, food and pharmaceutical industries and to work efficiently according to academic quality specifications, labor market needs and sustainable development.

 In light of the directives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Presidency of the University of Technology seeking to apply quality standards in academic laboratories and provide all the comfort requirements for our dear students, the reconstruction and rehabilitation campaign for the laboratories of the Department of Chemical Engineering continued in the building of the department's annex and with direct follow-up by Professor Dr. Khaled Sakr, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, on Monday 19/8/2024 in the presence of the Administrative Assistant, Professor Dr. Zainab Youssef and the technical and administrative staff. As the engineering cadres in the Department of Construction and Projects continue to complete their work, the department is witnessing a reconstruction and rehabilitation campaign that includes the rehabilitation of scientific laboratory halls and providing safety and security requirements in each laboratory according to international conditions. It is worth noting that the reconstruction included more than six laboratories in order to enhance laboratory quality requirements and develop the educational process.

This campaign comes in an effort by the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Technology to provide all means of comfort and success for our dear students in the department for the new academic year 2024-2025

 Within the framework of the construction and reconstruction renaissance witnessed by the University of Technology and its endeavor to upgrade the educational and service infrastructure, the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Professor Dr. Khaled Ajami Sakr, and the administrative and scientific staff supervised the rehabilitation of two graduate studies halls. It is worth noting that during the new academic year, a master's degree was created in the specialization of chemical engineering and oil pollution in addition to the previously existing postgraduate studies, which included the study of a general doctorate, a master's degree in the specialization of operations engineering, and a master's degree in the specialization of chemical engineering and oil refining. The head of the department expressed his thanks and gratitude for all the efforts that contributed to the implementation of the furnishing process of these classrooms.

A lecturer from the Chemical Engineering Department obtains a patent.

Professor Dr. Thamer Jassim Muhammad from the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Technology, as part of a joint research team of lecturers working in academic institutions, obtained a patent issued by the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control for the design of an electrochemical reactor in an innovative way to treat polluted water in Iraqi oil refineries by electrochemical oxidation.

It is worth noting that the patent was granted based on the provisions of Article (21) of the Patent, Industrial Models, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Varieties Law No. 65 of 1970, as amended.