The Control and Systems Engineering Department held a workshop for the postgraduate students in the research stage of our department. The workshop was held on Sunday 26/1/2020. The purpose of the workshop was to inform the students about the ministerial and the university instruction regarding the extension of the study duration and thesis submission procedure. The workshop extended its outline to include the concept of plagiarism and the accepted plagiarism ratios in the thesis. The workshop included the regulations of The Department of Research and Development regarding the mechanism for writing and typesetting of the master’s theses. The lectures explained the concept of global containers for research and how to avoid predatory magazines and publishing houses. This workshop was given by (Asst. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Youssef Hassan), (Asst. Prof. Dr. Shibli Ahmed Hamid), and (Lect. Farah Falih Hassan), a number of the postgraduate students from our department attended the workshop alongside some of there supervisors.

  On Sunday, the 15th of December 2019, the Master's thesis of the student Shams Abdel Salam Hashem in the specialization of Computer Engineering was discussed in the Control and Systems Engineering Department at Hall (No. 9) of the department. The title of the thesis is “Design of Second Order Sliding Mode Control Algorithm for a Nonlinear System” The Examination Committee included:

Dr. Shibley Ahmed Hamid (Assistant Professor) / Chairman

Dr. Hazem Ibrahim Ali (Assistant Professor) / Member

Dr. Zakir Mahmoud Nile (Lecturer) / Member

Dr. Ahmed Khalaf Hammoudi (Assistant Professor) /Supervisor and Member

The main topic of the research is how to control the systems at the presence of a disorder (variability of operations and disturbances) that cause bad conditions affecting the performance and stability of the system, and it is considered a difficult task so that the researchers started to develop strong methods of control. This thesis focused on the design of controllers of a solid sliding surface of the first degree (1- SMC) and its extension to the controller with a sliding surface of the second degree (2- SMC) for two algorithms in order to improve the accuracy and durability of the first controller. The exam was attended by the head of the Control and Systems Engineering Department (Assist. Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem Kareem) and deputy head of the department for scientific research and post-graduate studies. On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Shams Abdel Salam) and we wish her good luck and success in her future career.

  In accordance with its scientific activities, the Control and Systems Engineering Department held several seminars at Hall No. 9 from the 12th to the 14th of January 2020 to discuss the projects of the postgraduate students who passed the first and second rounds. The purpose of these seminars was to assess what has been accomplished of the projects and to give advice and guidance for the students of the Control, Mechatronics, and Computers branches. The students who participated in these seminars are as follows:

1- Dina Hamid Toma. Research Title "Different SMC Design Approaches for Nonlinear Systems"

2- Anmar Faiadh Abed. Research Title "Sliding Mode Controller for Motor–Quik–return Servo Mechanism"

3- Musadaq Ahmed Hadi. Research Title "Robust Model Reference Controller Design for Nonlinear Time-varying Systems"

4- Abdallah Nadhum Muhsin. Research Title "Optimized Real Time Estimation and Control of Quadrotor systems using extremum seeking Algorithm"

5- Tina Abbas Ali. Research Title "Low–cost MEMS–Based NARX Model for GPS- Denied Areas"

6- Dhuha Haider Hussain. Research Title "Energy-Efficient Data Collecting in Hetergeneous Wirless Sensor Networks"

7- Hanan Muhammed Kadhum. Research Title "Design of Fuzzy logic Controller of an Active Queue Manager for Congestion Avoidance in Internet Routers"

8- Areej Munadhil Kareem. Research Title "Implementation of Transceiver for Congnitive Radio Based Wirless Network"

9- Amal Faris Hasan. Research Title "Design and Implementation of an Error Management Scheme for the Pipeline Circuit"

10- Wajdi Thneyan Juda. Research Title "FPG- based on Adaptive Neural Voltage Controller Design for a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Model" 11- Muhammed Yaseen Kudhaier. Research Title "Intelligent Control Design for Overhead Crane Control"

12- Ameera Kadhum Jabar. Research Title "Information Security Management for Electronic Healthear system"

13- Mais Riadh Kadhum. Research Title "Object Detection Based on Deep Learning"

These seminars were attended by the Deputy Head for the Scientific Affairs and Postgraduate Study, branches' administrators, and several academic staff members.

  The Oral Exam of the Master's Student Mohammed Emad Abdul Kareem took place at Hall No. 9 in the Control and Systems Engineering Department on Thursday the 9th of January 2020. The thesis title was (Developing a robot path-mapping algorithm based on the probability of the roadmap Method) The discussion committee consisted of:

• Asst. prof. Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim Abdel Karim / Chairman.

• Asst. prof. Dr. Saad Zaghloul Said/member.

• Asst. prof. Miss Shaima Mahmoud Mahdi / member.

• Asst. prof. Dr. Firas Abdul Razzaq Rahim / member and supervisor.

In his thesis, the student developed the road map probability algorithm using various combinations of methods and theories for the planning of the route. Four methods have also been proposed to solve the path-planning problem in a complex, well-known and fixed environment. A random roadmap was used based on the technology of the ideal ant colony. The deputy head of the department for scientific affairs and postgraduate studies attended the session. We would like to congratulate Mohamed and wish him good luck and all the success.

  A discussing session was conducted to discuss a thesis to fulfill a master degree requirements in Control and Systems Engineering Department (Computer Engineering) for the student (Sajeda Shehatha Mahmood) on Tuesday the 17th of December 2019 and the thesis title was "Designing a System for Object Recognition, Tracking, and Behavior Analysis” The discussion committee consisted of the following members

1- Asst. Prof. Dr Intisar abd al majeed (Chair)

2- Asst. Prof. Dr Ashwaq Talib Hashem (Member)

3- Lecturer Dr. Ahmed Mudhir Hassan (Member)

4- Asst. Prof. Dr Laith Jasim Suaoud (Supervisor and Member)

In this work, the thesis presented creating two algorithms for surveillance systems depending on computers for vision purposes. The first algorithm used the classical methods of image processing, while the second one depends on the deep learning based artificial neural network. This session was attended by the scientific affairs deputy. We congratulate Sajeda and wish her all the success.