The college of engineering participated in Erbil conference held by the United Nations in Iraq to discuss the advantage of excellent and talented academic minds outside Iraq and attracting them to supplement the Iraqi universities and participate in postgraduate studies. The workshop is made with the participation of the college of engineering – university of Baghdad, Sulaimaniyah university, the university of Irbil, Mosul university and the university of Basra. Professor Dr. Saba Jabbar Ni’ma – head of the department of architecture who has been sent to deliver a lecture exposing the scientific, educational and research activities of the college of engineering. The workshop has approved some important recommendations for its success of and what flourishes the educational process at universities and to develop postgraduate studies.
Within the activities, the consultative group of the instructors of the college of engineering participated to discuss the final designs of the airport project of the Middle Euphrates with the ministry of transport and the French company in Beirut the final diagrams of the airport project of the Middle Euphrates in cooperation with the concerned consultant. Professor Dr. Saba Jabbar Nima – head of the department of architecture, long-practiced Professor Dr. Bahgat Rashad Shaheen – department of architecture, Prof. Dr. Qais Saeed Sabbagh – department of computer engineering and Prof. Dr. Sidqi Ismail, director of engineering division at the university of Baghdad. Related to this, the department of architecture in the college of engineering, university of Baghdad organized an educational exhibition to definition architecture engineering and the nature of the study with its first phase requirements in order to make them to see the nature of the possibilities that are available in the department and the definition of curriculum and requirements. Dr. Saba Jabbar, head of the department, said that architecture engineering is an art and science of designing and constructing of buildings to cover the materialistic human needs (such as housing) or moral needs by using suitable materials and methods of construction. She added that the field of architecture extends to different aspects of knowledge and humanities such as mathematics, science, technology, history, psychology, politics, philosophy, social science and art as overall. It has mastered also aspects of culture such as music and astronomy. The head department indicated that architecture engineering is closely related to fields of designing cities and urban planning, civil furnishing and interior design. what is required from the architect in the design phase is complete and detailed visualization of the project and a link to nature, traditions and customs of the region and to find a suitable formula of the design to interpret the needs of the users of the place later.
