As a symbol of the University of Technology's slogan "productive university", the mining and mining department of the department established a scientific visit to the General Company for Mining Industries with third and fourth stage students and their professors. The head of the Mining Engineering Branch in the Department of Production Engineering  Assist. Prof.Sami Al-Rubaie provided a brief description of the branch of mining engineering and the extraction of metals and the directions of the University of Technology to be productive university through the adoption of the Department of Production  Engineering work problems and the development of the quality of the company's products as research for graduate students and research professors, and these research the extraction of silicon from Iraqi sand and the project to restart production lines Copper cathode.