📋 About the Department
The Department of Information and Communication Technology was established by the National Authority for Accreditation and Quality at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research at the beginning of the academic year (2019/2020) within Al-Furat Al-Awsat University as one of the departments of the Technical Institute of Samawah. This department aligns with the needs of the local and Arab community and aims to introduce students to the basic principles of information and communication technology and the emerging trends in this field, especially after the expansion of globalization and the widespread growth of information networks across the world.
The department contributes to the advancement of society by providing graduates holding a diploma in this field who are capable of entering the labor market with technical and practical skills. It strives to graduate qualified personnel able to keep pace with the tremendous development in information technology and achieve excellence and competitiveness.
🎯 Vision, Mission & Objectives
The ICT Department seeks to provide continuous development for education in the field of information technology to keep pace with rapid scientific and technological advancements, improve university performance, elevate its graduates to excellence and high competitiveness, conduct distinguished scientific research and studies, and maximize the department’s role in serving the community and environment.
To prepare an elite group of graduates and researchers distinguished in the field of information and communication technology, facilitate the use of technology and information resources through a staff capable of creating and disseminating knowledge via collaborative communities, and enhance partnerships that promote cooperation among education, industry, and government while meeting labor market needs and raising students to a level that serves Iraqi society and its requirements.
The ICT Department is one of the departments of the Technical Institute of Samawah. It works to prepare specialized graduates in information and communication technology capable of keeping up with technological progress. Its objectives include:
- Supplying the local and Arab market with graduates able to use ICT in building and developing various communication systems.
- Establishing theoretical and scientific concepts of information technology based on basic sciences and their importance in systematic methods.
- Providing qualified human resources to build computer networks and connect them to the Internet.
- Equipping students with the skills and information necessary to work efficiently and effectively in communication fields.
- Developing students’ personality, discovering their inclinations and talents through scientific, cultural, and sports activities.
- Teaching students professional ethics to help graduates face real-life professional challenges.
- Enabling students to evaluate alternative solutions and make decisions regarding the use of information technology.
- Teaching various programming languages and coding, and applying artificial intelligence principles to solve problems.
- Able to manage and operate information storage and processing software and connect local information networks.
- Able to convert many library indexes into automated forms.
- Able to obtain vast amounts of information by connecting computers to information networks on a wide scale.
- Able to collect, process, and disseminate information inside and outside the country and anywhere in the world using advanced communication means.
🔬 Department Labs
Objective: Train students on the basics of wired and wireless communication systems.
Practical content: Experiments on electromagnetic waves, transmission and reception, signal analysis.
Benefit: Prepares students to understand modern communication networks and their industrial applications.
Objective: Introduce students to digital logic principles and logic gates.
Practical content: Designing circuits using ICs, studying counters and registers, applications on microcomputers.
Benefit: Enables students to understand the fundamentals of digital systems and computers.
Objective: Teach students programming basics and applications in engineering fields.
Practical content: Writing programs in C or Python, device control applications, system simulation.
Benefit: Develops programming skills necessary for computing and embedded systems fields.
Objective: Connect engineering theories with practical applications.
Practical content: Implementing small projects combining communications, digital circuits, and programming.
Benefit: Gives students comprehensive practical experience and enhances innovation and problem-solving skills.
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📊 Staff & Student Numbers
🔧 Workshops & Courses
- 📅 21/9/2025 – Web Development Basics (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) – Courses (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 2025-07-12 – How to Create a Website Without Programming (Wix or WordPress) – Courses (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 16/11/2025 – Occupational Safety in Electrical Systems – Courses (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 23/11/2025 – ICT Role in Improving Healthcare Services – Courses (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 16/11/2025 – Improving Listening and Comprehension Skills in English – Courses (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 2025-05-10 – Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing – Courses (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 14/9/2025 – Information Security and Cyber Challenges in the Digital Age – Courses (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 19/10/2025 – Robotics and Intelligent Systems in Industry and Engineering – Workshops (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 2026-05-01 – Building Innovative Solutions using AI & IoT – Workshops (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 21/9/2025 – The Student’s Role in Creating a Distinguished University Environment (for the 2025/2026 academic year) – Seminars (ICT Dept.)
- 📅 16/11/2025 – Towards a Disciplined University Environment: Absenteeism and University Uniform Are Our Collective Responsibility – Seminars (ICT Dept.)
Asst. Lect. Izdehar Yasir Mohsen
Head of ICT Department
Assistant Lecturer / M.Sc. Electrical Engineering
📧 [email protected]
Asst. Lect. Suad Abdullah Maidy
Department Coordinator
Assistant Lecturer / M.A. English Language
📧 (Coordinator)
👩🏫 Faculty Members
- 🔹 Izdehar Yasir Mohsen – Assistant Lecturer / M.Sc. Electrical Engineering
- 🔹 Suad Abdullah Maidy – Assistant Lecturer / M.A. English Language
- 🔹 Hamed Hussein Shakir – Assistant Lecturer / M.Sc. Computer Science
- 🔹 Mortada Kamil Ali – Assistant Lecturer / M.Sc. Electrical Engineering