On 21/6/2021, the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Technology held a workshop entitled (Educational and Psychological Counseling in Crises) in the presence of the Head of the Department, Prof. Dr. Hussein Alaa Jaber, scientific and administrative associates, heads of branches, a number of teaching staff and postgraduate students at the discussion room in Building C.

The lecture was delivered by Lec. Dr. Firas Abbas Fadel (Head of the Educational Guidance and Direction Division) and Lec. Dr. Soheir Mohamed Zaki (Department of Computer Science). The workshop included an explanation of the concepts of educational guidance and the basis for addressing crises in the current circumstances and what are the ways to confront the challenges. A set of questions and discussions were directed by the attendees and lecturers in order to reach the optimal solutions for educational guidance and direction for students and academics.

At nine o’clock (morning) on Sunday, 6/20/2021, the Department of Materials Engineering / University of Technology conducted the competitive examination for applicants for postgraduate studies (MSc, PhD), where all precautionary measures were applied from social distancing and wearing masks.

The exam was inspected by the head of the department, Assist.Prof. Hussein Alaa, the scientific assistant Lec. Dr. Muhannad Najah and the administrative assistant, Prof. Dr. Laith Waddah .

The PhD student (Asraa Adnan Najim) discussed her thesis entitled (Preparation and Characterization of Doped MgO Nanoparticles). The discussion was held on the discussions hall / building C / Department of Materials Engineering / University of Technology on Tuesday (8/6/2021). The discussion committee was formed of the teaching staff listed:

The thesis was scientifically evaluated by Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayad Mourad Takhakh/ Al-Nahrain University/ College of Engineering, and linguistically by Assist. Prof. Dr. Alaa Abdel Hadi Jaber/ University of Technology / Office of Vice chancellor for scientific and postgraduate affairs.

The discussion of the thesis was conducted in a scientific atmosphere and a PhD degree with grade of pass was awarded to the student after the completion of all the corrections that have been decided by the examiners.

Abstract:

The magnetization of bulk MgO shows diamagnetism behavior while MgO-NPs shows a unique type of magnetization named room temperature ferromagnetic (RTFM) or "d0" ferromagnetism". This magnetization was obtained by doping MgO-NPs with different concentration of Pb+2 and Sc+3 ions to obtain (Mg(1-x)PbxO)-NPs, (0≤x≤0.03), and (Mg0.97Pb(0.03-y)ScyO)-NPs, (0≤y≤0.03), respectively. All samples have been prepared by modified Pechini method.

The undoped and doped samples have been analyzed by VSM, XRD, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy and FESEM-EDS.

The result of experimental work show that the maximum saturation magnetism (Ms) was for 1.5 % Pb (Mg0.985Pb0.015O) sample for (Mg(1-x)PbxO)-NPs samples group and 3% Sc (Mg0.97Sc0.03O) sample for (Mg0.97Pb(0.03-y)ScyO)-NPS samples group.

A cooperation contract between the Department of Materials Engineering-University of Technology and the College of Biotechnology - Al-Nahrain University was occurred.

The agreement between Biomaterials Engineering and Artificial Prostheses branch in the Materials Engineering Department is to achieve a fruitful cooperation between the University of Technology - Materials Engineering Department and Al-Nahrain University - College of Biotechnology in the fields (academic, research, training, technical, development).

The two universities have agreed to conclude this agreement:

• Develop and support frameworks of mutual understanding in the practical and comprehensive educational mechanisms.
• Help to strengthen relations between them through activate the exchange of scientific and practical experiences.
• Activate the training of students, exchange teaching for faculty members, conducting joint projects, holding seminars and conferences,
• Exchange various field visit for teachers, students and researchers, and activating joint supervision process for postgraduate student research between the two universities.