On Monday, 4/18/2022, the Department of Materials Engineering/University of Technology organized a scientific trip for students of the second stage in the department to the National Center for Construction Laboratories under the supervision of the Head of the General Materials Engineering Branch, Asst.  Prof. Jamal Jalal Daoud  and Lecture  Ammar Musa Hassan esteemed. Where the students were briefed on the laboratories in the center and got acquainted with the mechanisms of examining engineering samples, as well as the various examination devices located within the center’s laboratories, including the iron test laboratory, the cement and sand test laboratory, the concrete cube test laboratory, thermo-stone,  sheets, the soil and asphalt test laboratory, and others. At the end of the trip, the professors and students of the department gave their heartfelt thanks to the director of the center, Mr. Iyad Ajaj Ayed, the respected for his great cooperation during this visit to them, and he expressed his willingness to provide any possible assistance to the professors and students of the department in the service of our dear country.