The Control and Systems Engineering Department hosted Prof. Dr. Basil Al-Hadithi, who is an associated professor in "Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria y Diseno Industrial" at University Politecnica de Madrid-Spain. Prof. Dr. Basil gave a scientific seminar entitled "Estimation and Control of Nonlinear Systems Applying Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Model". This seminar was held in the conference hall of the department on Tuesday the 30th of July 2019. The seminar was attended by a group of lecturers and a number of graduate students, who enriched the scientific debate. It was also planned to make future cooperation with the professor in several aspects including teaching one of the subjects of graduate students, the joint supervision of their research, and the establishment of a workshop during the future hosting, in addition to his participation in the formation of future research groups with the academic staff of the department.