The Environment Research Center in cooperation with Mustansiriya University / Faculty of Engineering held a workshop for students of the third phase of the branch / Environmental Water Systems on Sunday 23/12/2018 in the presence of teachers from their department. The workshop included a brief introduction to the center and laboratories, physical and chemical tests, definition of field equipment, The speed of the current and the experience of measuring the turbidity and the experience of measuring Total Hardness and the experience of measuring the pH, the workshop was to the laboratories of the Department of Environmental Pollution (soil and water laboratory and laboratory analysis automated) and under the supervision of the officials and testers of the following labs:

 * Rana Riad Khalil
 * Athmaar Abdul Majeed
 * Ahmed Alwan
 * Ali Nasser Ali

The Fourth International Scientific Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development was organized by the Center for Environmental Research at the University of Technology and the Arab Union for Sustainable Development and the Environment. The conference was attended by more than 120 researchers and researchers from various Iraqi governmental and private universities, in addition to the participation of many scientific and academic figures from the Arab Union and the Egyptian universities. At the Intercontinental Hotel City Star Cairo and in the presence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in the Arab Republic of Egypt Mr. Habib Al-Sadr and Professor Dr. Amin Dway Thamer, President of the University of Technology.

The opening session included a lecture by Dr. Bahram Khader from Salahuddin University and Prof. Najah Aboud Hussain from Basra University.

The first day included a workshop on the integrated environmental management of water resources in Iraq, in which Dr. Hussein Al-Atafi, Secretary General of the Arab Water Council, and former Minister of Water Resources in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Dr. Ali Abdul-Zahra Al-Lami participated.

Within the framework of the Center's activities in the field of quality and accreditation of laboratories, our center visited a team from the Iraqi Accreditation Authority as part of the annual follow-up plan on Sunday 21/10/2018 from 9 am to 4 pm. The team conducted the annual evaluation plan within the criteria of evaluation and reference documents:

ISO / IEC 17025: 2005 and the requirements of the Iraqi Accreditation System and the requirements for using the accreditation logo

* Quality documentation for laboratory, quality manual and laboratory procedures

The team visited the laboratories and supervised some of the tests that were conducted before the team and the audit of the administrative and technical quality documents with the quality manager and the laboratory officials and with the management of the center and concluded the visit with success and good evaluation. The team commended the efforts exerted in the administrative and technical work and the maintenance of work within the standard with the existence of some minor cases of non- Must be corrected within a maximum period of three months from the date of the visit.

 Among the activities of our center ... for the cultural season in its 20th century (20). Zahraa Zahrao Farhan Lecture entitled ((principle of the work of the Spectrophotometer spectroscopy)) on Monday, 28/5/2018 on the blue hall where the lecture summarized the following:

The principle of the operation of Spectrophotometer spectroscopy

 The spectrometer is used in many chemical and biochemical laboratories to measure the concentration of various factors such as phosphates, nitrates, nitrite, sulphates, silicates, heavy metals, pigments, sugar etc. This device has a wide range of uses Analytical analysis. The optical spectrometer is a quantitative method to measure the absorbance or reflectivity of the sample using wavelengths. The basic principle of this method is that "each compound absorbs or reflects light through a specific range of wavelengths" where the device measures the amount of photons absorbed by the sample when the light passes through, and thus get the concentration of material to be examined.