On Wednesday the 15th of May 2019, the Control and Systems Engineering Department held the comprehensive scientific exhibition for robotics and devices manufactured by students and academic members with a large number of contributions and products. This exhibition was the seventh in a series of exhibitions which were held for the last six years. The exhibition was attended by Prof. Dr. Amin Daway Thamir, President of the University, Assistant President of the University for Administrative Affairs, Prof. Dr. Sami Aboalnoon , Chairman of the Iraqi Engineers Association, Mr. Faleh Kadhem Zayer, a number of department heads, center managers, university employees, and other parties interested in this big activity adopted by the department every year. This event is arranged at the end of the study year to present the devices and robots manufactured inside the department by the students and the staff. The manufacturing process of each of these devices and robots starts at the beginning of the academic year. These devices, which are based on scientific and applied ideas, include undergraduate projects, postgraduate projects, and research projects for the academic staff members. This exhibition included scientific and applied products aimed at serving the community with the possibility of marketing them to ministries and relevant government institutions in order to utilize them in the service of our beloved country. In this regard, this exhibition was organized by a direct supervision from the Department Head Asst. Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem Kareem.

    The Control and Systems Engineering Department held a training course for the development of professors, students and staff of the department entitled "How to Write a Scientific Paper Using LATEX Program" on Sunday the 12th of May 2019. The training course was held in the Discussion Hall no. (9). The course was set to take two hours daily and it took two days to complete. The following subjects were discussed during the course:

1. Introduction to latex.

2. How to install the program.

3. How to use ready-made templates for some scientific journals.

4. How to format the writing using Latex.

5-How to add images and tables using Latex.

The course was aimed at identifying the fundamentals of latex and how to start from ready-made templates, then developing the skills of academics in the field of writing research papers and identifying the problems that appear during writing the paper, and ways of solving them. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Ali Majeed Mahmoud and Dr. Haidar Mohi Abbas.

   On Thursday, the 16th of May 2019, the Control and Systems Engineering Department hosted the Experts Committee of Electrical and Computers Engineering and the other related disciplines within their third meeting to approve the courses of the associated scientific departments headed by Prof. Dr. Saleh Mahdi Al-Karawi. In this regard, all necessary facilities were provided to the committee in the Conference Hall of the department. On the other hand, the chairman and members of the Experts Committee expressed their gratitude for this initiative in serving the general welfare.

  On Tuesday, the 14th of May 2019, the Control and Systems Engineering Department held a two-day training course entitled "Implementation and simulation of Zigbee transmitter and receiver using Matlab / Simulink" for improving the skills of the staff and students of the department. This training course, which was held in the Communication Lab for two hours per day, included the following topics:

1-Presenting an overview on digital transceiver systems.

2- Explaining Zigbee transceiver systems and its applications.

3-System simulation based on IEEE using Matlab/Simulink.

The aim of the training course was to introduce the fundamentals of digital communications in addition to the basic components of digital transmission and reception systems considering the ZIGBEE as a model. On the other hand, the practical part included system simulation using the Matlab/Simulink program and understanding the effect of AWGN on the performance of the system in terms of BER error rate. The lectures in this course were given by Lect. Dr. Ekhlas Kadhum Hamza and Asst. Lect. Russul Haitham.

   On Sunday the 5th of May 2019, the Control and Systems Engineering Department held a training course for the students and staff of the department. This course, which was entitled "Handling Errors that Occur when Sending and Receiving Digital Information and How to Process Them", was held at the Digital Lab. The course addressed the following subjects:

-Present an application of logic gates techniques in error detection and correction.

-Explain the principles of code convolution technique.

The aim of the course was to identify the errors that occur when sending and receiving digital information and how to deal with them using sophisticated algorithms in this field. The lecturers of the course were: Dr. Zineb Sabah Mohamed Amin and Mr. Omar Ali.