Researchers from 19 Countries Studying the Industrial Revolution IV Conference of Sulaimani Polytechnic University

Kurdish researchers, academics and their peers from 19 countries around the world called for the need to prepare for the fourth industrial revolution, saying that it will improve the quality of life and how to invest natural resources and preserve the world “our big house”.

This came during the first International Conference on Engineering and Computing, organized by both SPU & CUS, which constitute the third world scientific and academic organized by the University during the last few years, the first devoted to the economic side and the second to improve the health situation in the Kurdistan Region.
The Head of the Higher Committee of the Conference, Dr.Soran Saeed said, Researchers from 19 countries participated in the First International Conference on Engineering and Computing, held in cooperation with the University of Cihan Sulaimani under the slogan of the preparation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, for the period from 22 to 24 August 2017, at Ramada Hotel in Sulaimani, pointing out that the competent committees received 102 research from Kurdistan Region, Iraq and various parts of the world, subjected to a rigorous scientific evaluation in two stages, and selected 64 research to participate in the conference.

The participants were distributed to Malaysia, Japan, America, Canada, Holland, Britain, Argentina, Sweden, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, Colombia, as well as others from Kurdistan Region and Iraq, noting that the work of the conference is divided into three axes , information technology, engineering communications, electronics, architecture, construction and mechanics, and that his research will be published in a special issue of the Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research Issued by Sulaimani Polytechnic University.
The opening session of the conference started with welcomed speech by the President of the SPU, Dr. Alan Faraidoon, President of the University of Cihan Dr.Aram Omar Mhedeen and Dean of the College, Dr. Soran Saeed, and Professor Naomi Salim, UTM who chaired the session, and Dr. Sergio Amato from Osaka Technical Institute in Japan.
Dr.Alan stressed the university’s keenness to establish various scientific activities in the framework of its endeavor to contribute to the development of the local community and to make Kurdistan the destination of world scientists and researchers. He stressed on the importance of the role of scientists and academic researchers in addressing the problems that the community usually faces.

The conference is a good opportunity to share ideas and experiences among Kurdish researchers and their peers from around the world and to follow developments in various fields of science and technology, said the president of Cihan University. He also added that University of Cihan has achieved a good development since its foundation in 2011, there are currently ten departments in which 2005 students study.

Prof. Naomi Salim expressed her hope that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be a new opportunity to improve human life and make it better by harnessing the outputs of science and technology, especially informatics, artificial intelligence, robotics and genetic engineering to serve human being and warning against the consequences of not keeping up with the rapid developments in these fields.

She expressed her optimism about the future of the Kurdistan Region as it depends on young people aspiring to receive science and technology and serve their country, stressing the readiness of UTM Malaysia to strengthen areas of cooperation with the universities in Kurdistan in general and SPU in particular.
Dr. Amato said that engineering, information technologies and biological sciences have become the “pillar of evolution”. He said that the conference is a Preparatory step to identify and cope with the Fourth Industrial Revolution by focusing on scientific research and higher studies.
From the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts, Confronting the pollution makes our big house, the world, a better place, said Yolanda Collis, who stressed the need to face the threat of increased pollution threatening the planet, especially of plastics.

And from the University of Technology in Baghdad, the researcher Dr. Nvin Gamal Abdelkader, who contributed to the study of corrosion, includes the production of an overlapping metal of recycled aluminum by strengthening it with nanoparticles of silicon carbide and studying the corrosion behavior in it. It was found that the metal-overlapping material of recycled aluminum with resistance Corrosion is higher than the base alloy.
From the Technical College of Engineering at Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Dr. Rizgar Mohammed Abdel-Rahman participated with a study on bending of composite materials.