The Department of Construction and Construction Engineering at the University of Technology held a condolence meeting on the spirit of the former head of the Department of Construction and Construction Engineering at the University of Technology, Dr. Namir Khorshid Said, Saudi Arabia on Sunday, 12 February 2017 in the hall of Prof. Dr. Hussein Mohammed in the department. President of the University for Administrative Affairs Dr. Sami Abu Al-Nun and a number of heads of scientific and engineering departments and university professors and employees.

The deceased had passed away on Thursday February 9, 2017 in Australia and wished the President of the University and all those present to his people patience and solace, calling on the Almighty to dwell in their lives.

The late professor graduated from Baghdad High School in 1968 to enroll as a student in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Baghdad and in 1972 received a bachelor's degree with honors and received a master's degree in highway engineering. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester in England and received his doctorate in geotechnical engineering in 1980. Upon his return to Iraq he joined the Department of Building Engineering at the University of Technology.

He was appointed head of the Roads and Bridges Branch in the Department and then head of the Construction and Construction Department at the University of Technology until 2012 and has been assigned cultural attachés in Australia and New Zealand since 2013.

In the course of many years of work in engineering and postgraduate studies, he has 82 students in his hands to obtain master's and doctorate degrees and has dozens of researches published in national and international scientific journals and conferences. The late scholar and editor of several national and international journals. He received 5 patents.

Prof. Nemir Khorshid received many awards during his career including: First Professor in the Department of Construction and Engineering Construction for the years 1997-1998, 1998-1999 and 1999-2000, and the First Professor Award at the University of Technology for the academic year 2000 – 2001