As part of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center

Dr. Mohammed Muayad Taha-lecturer in the Department of Environmental Technology-ERC presented a lecture on Tuesday, 3/2/2020 at 12:00 entitled “Smart Project of the Environmental Research Center”. The lecturer stated that this project is a computerized working system that aims to improve the administrative performance of scientific activities of center’s staff that ensure their documentations and following-up the updates. Thus, achieving high speed and accuracy away from a routine work in this respect that lead to the delay, inaccuracy and slowness in documenting these activities. The nature of this system depends on the electronic forms that were prepared in advance for this purpose through self-efforts by the scientific committee in ERC where the process of updating all the scientific activities during the academic year through those forms, thus obtaining the required outputs.

The lecturer recommended the necessity of adopting this program and expediting its implementation due to its effective contribution in terms of administrative work for the center. Moreover, achieving other considerations that are in agreement with the concepts of achieving a sustainable environment by reducing the rate of consumption of paper files and plastic folders, and thus reducing the rate of paper and plastic wastes.

As part of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center

 Dr. Thaer Al-Jadir (lecturer in the University of Technology) presented a lecture on Tuesday, 11/2/2020 at 12:00 entitled “Proofreading and Editing Effective Techniques for Flawless Publications”. The lecturer stated that the non-acceptance of scientific research, i.e. its rejection by the approved international journals, leads to a state of frustration and upset for the researcher (author) or researchers (authors) involved in due to their great effort and long time in preparing it. This state of rejection is a normal case in this field because it may face many researchers with high experience in their specialized field. Several studies have been conducted to investigate the reasonable reasons that led to the refusal of research by the reviewers in those international journals. It was found that the process of writing the article plays an important role as a means of communication for the transfer of knowledge and then influence later in the field of knowledge.

In this seminar, the lecturer extensively discussed the writing of manuscript based on a scientific method to avoid common mistakes that lead to reducing the chances of its acceptance for publication in terms of proofreading (language corrections-grammar) and editing the manuscript and then preparing it to be submitted for publication.