Statement by Head of the Chemical   Engineering Department 

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 Assist. Professor Dr. Jamal Manee Alrubaiy
Head of the Chemical   Engineering Department/Acting

In the name of Allah: (Say, Work righteousness; GOD will see your work, and so will His messenger and the believers).

-God Almighty has spoken the truth-

Chemical Engineering Department was established in 1975, as a scientific department among the engineering departments at the university of technology to coincide with the year of founding the university in order to contribute in supplying our country with the competencies in the field of Chemical Engineering specialization. Since the first graduated constellation in 1979, which numbered Fifty-four students, the department was sought with all its potentials and the efforts of its professors, instructors and other academic staff in order to bridge the shortfall in the needs of national industry from the engineering staff who working in different fields of industry including the oil industry, petrochemical, construction, food, pharmaceutical. The department was adopted the scientific applied scheme by finding the communication channels with the industrial and oil sectors via signing the contracts with some companies such as Midland Oil Company, and the companies of Ministry of Industry. These connections have had a significant impact on the strengthening the scientific concepts and using them to serve both segments in industry and petroleum. The department continued to keep pace with scientific development and openness towards the edges of science through the introduction of new disciplines within the undergraduate study, which are represented in three scientific branches: The chemical processing engineering branch, the oil and gas refining engineering branch, and the industrial & oil pollution engineering branch with the aim of providing a chemical engineer at the University of Technology a distinct role in the functions needed by industrial development, which are not available in other Iraqi universities.

In order to supply the Iraqi universities and industrial factories together with senior cadres and specialized leaders, the postgraduate master's study was created in 1979 and later enlarged to include Master and High Diploma in various disciplines, in addition to open the doctoral study in 1987. Both undergraduate and postgraduate studies within the Chemical Engineering Department were marked in the adoption of the sober scientific style in the development of five-year study plans and consistent with the discreet foreign universities along with the use of foreign expertise in the scrutiny of study plan such as Nottingham University.

With the purpose of increasing the interlock and scientific rapprochement with the practical side, the department has contributed in this area through the improvement of three research units, namely: the designs and industrial production unit, the membranes research unit and finally the chemical and biological waste treatment unit. Currently, the Chemical Engineering Department seeks to expand the doctoral studies through the creation of cooperation channels with reputable foreign universities to take advantage from transference and localization of technology by means of joint supervision the doctoral thesis and participation in the preparation of scientific theory courses. By the grace of God, the president of the University of Technology Prof. Dr. Amin Daway Thamir was recently signed a twining memorandum with the University of Missouri-American for Science and Technology to facilitate make the collaboration in the progress of PhD study at the university, particularly in the chemical engineering department. Finally, we ask God to reconcile and success of our department and bless the efforts of all good people to serve our dear country ... It is God's reconciled.