Dr. Eng. Ahmed S. Karim, the administrative assistant of the computer engineering department head, had been awarded a certificate of appreciation for his efforts in papers reviewing for the international scientific journal “IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)”. TCCN which has an Emerging Source listing in the web of science, is committed to timely publishing of high-quality manuscripts that advance to the state-of-the-art of cognitive communications and networking research. Cognitive in this context means the applications of perception, learning, reasoning, memory and adaptive approaches in the design of communication systems.

Dr. Eng. Ahmed S. Kareem, the administrative assistant of the computer engineering department head, had been awarded a certificate of appreciation for his efforts in papers reviewing for the international scientific journal “IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics”, with Metrics of 9.31 Scopus CiteScore, and 8.803 clarivate Impact Factor. The scope of the journal includes such areas as computational intelligence, computer vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, fuzzy systems, cognitive systems, decision making, and robotics, to the extent that they contribute to the theme of cybernetics or demonstrate an application of cybernetics principles.

A group of the third-grade students from Al-Farouk Vocational preparatory school (The Vocational Education Department / Al-Rusafa Al-Oula) visited the Department of Computer Engineering on Wednesday, 2 March, 2019.

The visitors were given a brief overview of the department and its laboratories by the head of department administrative assistant (Dr. Eng. Ahmed S. Kareem), the network engineering branch head (M.Sc. Eng. Ammar A. Rashid), and the laboratories supervisor (M.Sc. Eng. Omar N. Mohammad), to inform the students of department scientific and practical potential.

The Department of Computer Engineering held an introductory workshop about a group of the largest Iraqi-German companies (Raban Al Safina Group of Companies) on Sunday, 24 March, 2019, at the department’s conference hall. The workshop was given by a delegation from the company, whose purpose was to offer more than 100 jobs to graduates of the department, and other departments in the university, and the nomination for the jobs were according to the need of the companies.

The attendance included the head of the computer engineering department, Prof. Dr. Eng. Ahmed S. Al-Araji, as well as a group of academic staff, and students of the department, in addition to a group of other departments students.  

In line with the vision and guidance of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Department of Computer Engineering held its first scientific workshop about the courses system on Sunday, 17 March, 2019, at the conference hall of the department.

The workshop included a brief description of the courses system and its application to the first level and how to avoid obstacles and difficulties that may occur during the application process. The workshop was attended by the head of the department Prof. Dr. Eng. Ahmed S. Al-Araji, and all the academic staff except the representative of the department in the Committee of Experts.