On Thursday, the 11th of April 2019, the Control and Systems Engineering Department organized a graduate-student scientific visit to the General Company for Systems, which is one of the formations of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals. Under the supervision of Lect. Dr. Ahmed Mudheher Hasan and Lect. Dr. Zainab Sabah Mohammed Amean, 15 students participated in this visit, which included the delivery of three comprehensive and valuable theoretical lectures on the programmable logic controllers. In addition, a practical explanation of the devices and tools used for practical applications was given. In this context, the director of laboratories in the company welcomed this mutual cooperation and expressed his happiness to provide everything possible to promote the practical reality of students. In the end, the visit supervisors expressed their gratitude and appreciation to the laboratories management and all the employees in the company for their efforts to provide all the needs and to facilitate the success of this visit.

   On Thursday, the 28th of March 2019, the Control and Systems Engineering Department awarded the Master Degree (in Mechatronics Engineering) to the student (Diyar Jalal Naji) after discussing her thesis entitled "Optimization of Sustainable Smart Health Care System". The student discussion was made in the discussion room (number 9). In this regard, the discussion committee consisted of the following members:

1- Asst. Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem Kareem (chairman).

2- Asst. Prof. Dr. Wajdy Sadiq Abood (member).

3- Lect. Dr. Luma Issa Abdul-Kreem (member).

4- Asst. Prof. Dr. Safanah Mudheher Raafat (member and supervisor).

The health care system has gained an increasing attention due to the expected increase in the population of communities and the need to immediate intervention to treat some critical medical cases. In this research, the data, which are acquired from health care sensors, are used in a clear functional simulation model called inference quality (QoINF). The objective is to find the best set of sensors with high accuracy and less cost. The consensus algorithm was applied using a network of sensors to reduce the energy needed to initiate a network of wireless health care system, which led to improving the sustainability of the health care system. The assistant head of the department for scientific affairs and postgraduate studies (Asst. Prof. Dr. Mohammed Yousif Hassan) attended the discussion. On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Diyar Jalal Naji) and wish her success.

   In conjunction with the International Day of the Orphan and based on a sense of responsibility towards an important segment of our dear society, the orphan children, a number of the department employees along with a group of students organized a visit to the Association of Cooperation Charity for Orphans, Al-Etefiyah Branch. Under the guidance of the head of the Control and Systems Engineering Department, the visit was made on Thursday the 4th of April 2019. In this visit, gifts, which are school bags equipped with a set of stationery, were presented in order to bring joy and pleasure to the orphan children in an attempt to integrate them with various segments of the society and to convey an important message that the academic staff and the employees of the department encourage and support the orphan children to continue their career in serving the country.

     On Monday the 25th of March 2019, the Control and Systems Engineering Department held a three-day training course entitled (Simulation in the Matlab program). This course, which was held at the Control Laboratory for two hours per day, included an extensive explanation of the simulation in MATLAB and its various applications with the utilization, implementation, and result extraction of scientific examples. The course was under the supervision of Lect. Laith Khames and Lect. Bashar Fateh. A number of academic staff members and engineers attended this course.