The head of computer engineering department (Prof. Dr. Eng. Ahmed S. Al Araji), his deputies, branches heads, and faculty members participated in an explanatory workshop regarding semesters system held under the auspices of the University President (Prof. Dr. Emad H. Al-Husseini) on Monday 30-9-2019 at the hall of Control and systems engineering department.

Prof. Dr. Abdul-Hussein G. Safi gave an orientational introductory lecture about the capability of implementing the semesters system at the university for the present academic year 2019-2020. This system provides flexibility in implementing and distributing the academic subjects over the studying period, also it provides more opportunities to the students to select the desired subjects, in order to keep pace with the global scientific development in the field of undergraduate studies.  

In order to facilitate the process of withdrawing the salaries of the university employees and increasing the withdrawal outlets, an ATM was activated in the computer engineering department in the presence of a committee from Al-Rasheed Bank - University of Technology, and Iraq E-Gate For Financial Services Company representative.

The Iraq E-Gate representative said that "all the University of Technology employees whether they have Al-Rasheed Bank or any other bank MasterCard can withdraw their salaries from this ATM"

The accepted postgraduate students (Masters and PhD) for the academic year 2019/2020 in the Computer Engineering Department have started preparatory phase on Sunday 15-9-2019, which announce the commencement of the new academic year.

A graduate student from the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Technology (Basma Ahmed Jalil) has been awarded a Master of Science degree in “Interactive System For Tourist and Trade Institutions based on QR code and Mobile Application”, on 08 August, 2019 at the conference hall of the Computer Engineering Department.

In her thesis, the researcher proposed a system to guide and monitor the visitors inside these institutions, in addition, provide a convenient way of shopping and payment in the trade institutions such as malls. The proposed system’s design consists of QR code tag, a designed mobile application and a network infrastructure which is constructed of: Raspberry pi3 working as Wi-Fi access point and local server, main server, switch and communication links.

The presented system has been implemented in real environment (mall and museum) by using three Raspberries, QR tag, android mobile phone, laptop (as main server), switch and Ethernet cables. The obtained results verified what the system is designed for, in both implementation environments. After reading the QR code, the information is presented into two forms: briefed and detailed. furthermore, the guide information is provided to the user in two stages, brief from the local server, and detail from the main server, reduces the load on the main server and on the whole network. This leads to avoid the network congestion.

The discussion committee consisted of four members, Asst. Prof. Dr. Amjad J. Hameedy from the University of Technology – Iraq / Control and Systems Engineering Department as Chairman, Asst. Prof. Dr. Dheya J. kadhim from the Baghdad University / Engineering College / Electrical Engineering Department as a member, Asst. Prof. Dr. Riyadh J. Sunday from the University of Technology – Iraq / Computer Engineering Department as a member, and Prof. Dr. Salih M. Muarig as a member and supervisor from the University of Technology – Iraq / Control and Systems Engineering Department.