Under the patronage of the Head of the Department, Asst. Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem Kareem, the Control and Systems Engineering Department held an honorary ceremony for Mrs. Najat Muhawesh Nasser for her retirement. This ceremony was held in the Conference Hall of the department on Thursday, the 2nd of May 2019. On this occasion, the Head of the Department, on behalf of the employees of the department, delivered a speech in which he praised the efforts of Mrs. Najat Muhawesh in serving the university and the department. This ceremony was attended by both scientific and the administrative assistants as well as a constellation of the academic staff members and employees of the department. The ceremony was held to acknowledge Mrs. Najat efforts and her distinguished role in serving the department. At the end of the ceremony, the department presented a shield to Mrs. Najat Muhawesh and wished her success, health, and happiness in her future life.

      As part of the humanitarian and social activities, our department organized a humanitarian visit for children with cancer in the "City of Medicine" hospital for the sixth consecutive year. This visit, which was made on Monday the 29th of April 2019, was under the direct supervision of the head of the department (Asst. Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem Kareem). The objective of this visit, which included students, employees, and academic staff of the department, was to present gifts and toys, live with children, plant the lost smile on their faces, and provide moral and psychological support to help them pass the most serious types of diseases that afflict human beings. The gifts were collected through the voluntary box, which was placed in the department. These gifts included toys, stationery, clothing and various gifts contributed by students, employees, and academic staff members in the department. During the visit, the students took a tour in the patients' rooms, where they shared conversation and toys with children and gave them gifts amidst an atmosphere of joy, trying to plant smile and hope for them. We wish the immediate recovery and the lasting happiness for all children of Iraq.

      For the first time at the level of the Iraqi universities, the Control and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Technology held a competition entitled "Your Project in Three Minutes" on Thursday the 25th of April 2019. The competition is a mini-festival, in which participants from the undergraduate study present their scientific projects within only three minutes. This competition is based on the encouragement of students by stimulating their ability to deliver and convey the scientific content of their graduation projects in short and in a simplified scientific language for the attendance of the general public. The objective of this competition is to achieve communication between the environments of the university and the outside community. We have transferred this experience, which is held every year in international universities, to our university in order to develop the educational process and raise its level. Under the support and supervision of the Head of the Department (Asst. Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem Kareem), the first version of this competition was held this year by the Cultural and Scientific Committee and we seek, with the help of Allah, to make this competition an annual festival, in which students from various scientific departments of the university compete.