Within the seminars organized by the department for teachers and researchers, Deputy Head for Scientific Affairs  Dr. Adel Sharif Hamadi Al-Obaidi  gave a lecture entitled "energy and fuel management " on Monday 19/3/2018 on the conference hall in the department.

The lecturer talked about the importance of fuel and energy management in the oil refineries,he talked about the types of physical and chemical processes that take place in the oil refineries which use large amounts of fuel and energy, which requires managing them in the correct scientific manner for the purpose of rationalizing consumption and operating costs.

Within the seminars organized by the department for teachers and researchers, Dr. Wafa Abdel Kadhim gave a lecture entitled "Fuel desulfurization techniques” on Monday 19/3/2018 on the conference hall in the department.

This lecture included the study of possible ways to remove sulfur and improve the fuel specifications for the purpose of encouraging teachers to conduct many researches in this field to achieve scientific benefit.

For the purpose of fully engineering cadres, the department sought to adopt the principle of performance and quality of the university , and within the scientific activity of the Scientific Committee in cooperation with the research unit for the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018 , an educational workshop was held for engineers given by Deputy Head for Scientific Affairs  Dr. Adel Sharif Hamadi Al-Obaidi  entitled "Guidance and Skills in Work Procedures, Safety and Safety in Chemical Laboratories" on 4/4/2018 at Conference Hall , talked about the benefits of laboratory work and its nature, the conditions of success of the laboratory experiment, how to acquire new skills and techniques in laboratory work, types and requirements of laboratory experiments in terms of performance, safety precautions in dealing with materials and chemical devices, the method of keeping chemicals in the laboratory, safety instructions and fire prevention And prevention and first aid guidelines.

Under the auspices of the president of  University of Technology Prof. Dr. Amin Daway Thamir and oil engineers society global / baghdad branch of society of  petroleum engineers organized a third  contest petro Iraq and with the participation of petroleum engineering departments in Iraqi Universities on Sunday 18/3/2018at university theater in the presence of a large number of teachers, associates and students.

The competition began with the national anthem and read from the Holy Quran and  Al-Fatiha on the souls of the martyrs of Iraq , then the president  of university delivered a speech in which he said: "Higher education depends on three pillars: the teaching staff, the curriculum, the student, and the university has a plan to encourage students in this competition we are encouraging the student to continue the educational process and the university must have a unified vision towards specialization oil as the artery of the national economy as is well known the university of technology pioneered in this area through the establishment of the petroleum technology department and the opening of the evening study, which saw great interest by students, which indicates the country's orientation towards this trend, calling in this competition to the fair competition between the different Iraqi university students .. "

After that the Head of the Department, Prof. Dr. Aqeel Shakir Ghani Al-Adili , spoke about the importance of the scientific competition in finding the intermixing between all Iraqi universities and creating a good opportunity for the cooperation of students and the honest competition among them as well as the development of their abilities and their scientific and self-skills , These competitions develop the ideas of the university student in the field of specialized specialization, thanks to all those who contributed to the success of this competition.

Al-Farabi University won the first place and the Koya University came in the second place, while the University of Baghdad was ranked as third place, at the end, the President of the Association of International Petroleum Engineers / Baghdad Branch, Dr. Karam Alwan distributed awards to the first three winners and distributed certificates of participation for all contestants.

The participants in the competition were nine Iraqi Universities in oil engineering: University of Kirkuk, Farabi University, University of Maysan, Baghdad University, University of Technology, University of Koya, Dhi Qar University, Basra University of oil and gas, University of Basra.

Within the seminars organized by the department for teachers and researchers,  Asst. Prof.Dr. Najem Al-Rubaiey gave a lecture entitled " How to get your article published " on Monday 19/3/2018 on the conference hall in the department.

The lecture included important topics such as: the importance of publication in magazines with high impact factor as well as the issues that are published and the definition of impact factor as well as general information on the method of writing scientific research for the purpose of strengthening publication in those journals.