Career Development Festival - Mechanical Engineering Department Session

Among the objectives of the University of Technology is improving cooperation with public and private sectors and to highlight the task of the private sector in attracting human competencies and providing training and job opportunities for students and alumni to serve the labour market. The Career Development Festival aims to support the university's efforts to raise the level of students and alumni, develop their skills through courses and workshops, and introduce them to the labour market and its needs.

     The session was held within the program of the Career Development Festival which is held electronically by the University of Technology on 12-20-2021 (2:00-5:00 pm) according to the prepared program. The scientific assistant, the representative of the Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr. Mohsen Nouri Hamza, introduce the opening speech of the session, in the presence of participating companies.

The session involved many speeches and discussions between company representatives, alumni and attendees, where the alumni and attendees interacted with the companies' offers and obtained information about the labour market and its needs.

The company representatives unanimously emphasized that students and alumni have to acquire the following skills:

• English Language
• The correspondence language (e.g. official email style and tactics).
• Computer proficiency (e.g. Microsoft programs).
• Specialized engineering programs proficiency (e.g. AutoCAD program).
• Voluntary work.
• Planning and design.

The participants and attendees also recommend:

1. Continuing the necessary support for such activities because of their significant impact in improving the skills of students and alumni (the Career Development Festival (personal/electronic attendance will be held periodically).
2. The importance of working on holding training workshops for students and alumni on self-development, planning and project building topics, according to a fixed schedule.
3. The Ziggura Group proposed creating a website called Forsaty (my chance), which is a special website for unemployed alumni looking for strategies for their rehabilitation.

Two lecturers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering participate in a human rights workshop

On Monday, December 20, 2021, at 10:00 am, both Prof. Dr. Ahlam Taha Hasan and assistant lecturer Mustafa Ismael Ibrahim from the Department of Mechanical Engineering - University of Technology participated in a specialised workshop on reading human rights curricula. This workshop was held at the headquarters of the High Commission for Human Rights in cooperation with the Horizon Organization for Human Development and with the participation of specialised professors and those involved in teaching human rights and people's officials in colleges. The importance of holding this workshop comes in preparing joint strategies and mechanisms of action, preparing studies and research, expressing opinions on issues related to human rights, and spreading a culture of human rights by including them in educational and educational curricula.

Oral Defense - Master Thesis

Titled” Experimental Study of Air Ejector Drying System Performance”

By:  Hassan Salim Jawad

Examination committee members: Chair: Dr. Zainab Hassoun Hassan

 Members: Dr. Essam Mohamed Ali

                    Dr. Suhad Abdel Hamid Rashid

Supervision: Dr. Qusay Jihad Abdel Ghafour

Mr. Hassan Salim Jawad successfully discussed his thesis on December 7, 2021, at 9:00 am, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Technology. This thesis aimed to conduct a test of the drying process for food and the process of drying and pasteurizing at the same time for milk, with a test of the cooling process using a system in which the injector is an essential part.

The major conclusions of this study are:

• Increasing the initial pressure leads to an increase in drying efficiency, cooling efficiency and moisture loss rate for the product.
• The vacuum drying process does not lead to product damage.

The major recommendations of this study are:

• Using an air compressor with a larger capacity, working within higher initial pressures.
• Using a two-stage injector, as well as using a simulation program for the numerical study of the injector system.

Congratulations! To our student Mr. Hassan Salim Jawad