The SMC High Ministerial Committee supervising the implementation of the Chemical Asset Tracking (CAT) program in Iraqi universities to inventory chemicals in stores and laboratories held a ministerial training course on the use of the CAT program in the presence of the Administrative Undersecretary, Prof. Dr. Ali Hamid Al Shukri, Chairman of the SMC Ministerial Committee. within the framework of cooperation between the Ministerial Committee and the Office of Cooperation to Reduce Threats, the work of the training course for university candidates for the final training for the application of the chemical asset tracking program on the installation of the program and how to transfer the database to servers and use it online had ended. Eng. Evelyn Ayoub Daoud / Department of Chemical Engineering / University of Technology participated in this training in Baghdad for the period from 2 to 3 January 2022, knowing that the University of Technology has implemented the CIMS program with several training courses, and the university will witness in the coming days the implementation of the program that was trained during conducting intensive training courses for members of the stores and laboratories association at the university.

Within the scientific activities of the Department of Chemical Engineering, a master's dissertation for the student Bara Latif Abboud entitled (Improving nano-fibers using electro-spinning technology for air filtration system) was discussed. The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Talib Mohammad Nayef, chairman, Prof. Dr. Akram Rahim Jabbour, member, Asst. Prof. Dr. Basma Ismail Hussein, member, Asst. Prof. Dr. Khaled Ajami Sukkar, member and supervisor, and Asst. Prof. Dr. Jinan Abdul Karim Abdul Razzaq, member and supervisor. The master's dissertation was accepted with very good degree.

Within the scientific activities of the Department of Chemical Engineering, a master's dissertation for the student Wassan Farhan Hamid entitled (Corrosion inhibition of mild steel in carbon dioxide saturated brine) was discussed on Thursday 30/12/2021. The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Sami Ibrahim Jaafar, chairman, Prof. Dr. Basem Obaid Hassan, member, Lect. Dr. Haider Abdul Karim Mohsen, member, Asst. Prof. Dr. Khaled Hamid Rashid, member and supervisor, and Prof. Dr. Anis Abdullah Kazem, member and advisory supervisor. The master's dissertation was accepted with excellent degree. The study aims to address the corrosion problem of mild steel used in the petroleum industries by using organic inhibitors to reduce corrosion rates.