The Department of Chemical Engineering celebrated the retirees staff by honoring them during a ceremony attended by the head of the Chemical Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. Jamal Manea Ali Al-Rubaie, a number of faculty members and the department's employees. The head of the department said in a speech delivered at the ceremony that "the department decided to extend thanks and gratitude to the colleagues who spent their youth serving the department and the university." He also commended and blessed the first students for the 2020/2021 academic year. All retirees and students were honored with certificates of appreciation and gifts in exchange for their services.

On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, the Chemical Engineering Department will be honored to host the University Council, where the Council held its fourth joint session in the Dar Al-Salam Hall, in the presence of the President of the University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Hassan Al-Ghabban and all members of the Council, where the meeting's agenda was discussed. At the end of the meeting, the university president thanked the attendees, wishing them a successful academic year.

Head of the Chemical Engineering Department Jamal Manea Ali Al-Rubaie congratulates the evening study students for their admission to the department and wished them a successful academic year, on Sunday 17/1/2021, where the department head stated in his speech that the department is very happy with the presence of new students and stressed the need for their commitment to the procedures Preventive and hygienic and was also received by the students gentlemen heads of branches and professors of the first stage and the Student Reception Committee to help and guide them about what they need, students at the university. Where it was explained to them that permanence is the blended education system, which was approved by the Ministry of Higher Education, meaning that theoretical lectures are taught electronically and practical lectures in the department in the presence. A tour was made for the students in the department's halls and laboratories, as well as a visit to the training centre and laboratories to introduce them to them, after which the e-mail was distributed to the students for the purpose of preparing for e-learning and communicating with the professors from the first day of their enrolment.

The Department of Chemical Engineering set up a remote electronic lecture for a foreign lecturer entitled “Low cost high efficiency solar powered desalination” On Sunday, 10/1/2021, it was given by Dr. Ibrahim Saeed from Rise University in the United States of America, and where the lecture was attended by the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department Prof. Dr. Jamal Mane Ali Al-Rubaie and with the wide participation of the teachers of Iraqi governmental and private universities, and the lecture included Building inexpensive and highly efficient water desalination systems using solar energy that can be applied in Arab countries to produce water with good specifications.