College of engineering at University of Baghdad won three awards at the global excellence competition sponsored by Coventry University, Britain that seeks to promote architecture profession in Iraq at the academic and professional levels via the Iraqi elites in this field such as the late well-known architect Zaha Hadid and others. The department of architecture at won the award of excellence for the best architectural school in 2017 where Assistant Prof. Dr. Inaam Amin al-Bazaz, head of department received the award for the best supervision and the engineer Nizar Razak, a graduate of architecture won the award for the best graduation research during the academic year (2016-2017) and the engineer Hala Issa won the 5th rank for the best architectural graduation research supervised by Dr. Inaam al- Bazaz.