8th International Engineering Conference (IEC2022) In Cooperation With IEEE Iraq Section

Tishk International University and Erbil Polytechnic University hosted the 8th International Engineering Conference (IEC2022) on February 23-24, 2022. IEC2022 is technically sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Iraq Section. The conference aimed to disseminate research findings and provide a platform for scholars to debate and exchange ideas on the developments in the field of engineering. The accepted papers will be indexed by IEEE Xplore Digital Library Database. Furthermore, the conference provides our undergraduate and graduate students a chance to establish communication with experienced researchers to discuss their current work as well as to be engaged in future research topics, and new opportunities.

The program committee members comprised 90 members, out of which 85% of them hold Ph.D. in various fields of engineering, relevant to one or more conference topics mentioned above. The conference adhered to the international conference standards by the guidelines agreed upon with our IEEE technical partners and in line with the regulations laid out by the Kurdistan ministry of higher education. All paper submissions were double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members to ensure that submissions conform to certain quality measures. The quality measures include the following criteria:

  1. Relevance and Timeliness
  2. Novelty and Originality
  3. Technical Content and Correctness
  4. Quality of Presentation
  5. References
  6. Written Language
  7. Reviewer Expertise
  8. Overall Recommendation.

This year, the total number of submitted manuscripts stood at 72 with authors participating from several countries including Iraq, Oman, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Hungary, Mexico, and Pakistan. To engage more experts in the review and evaluation processes, the conference has 6 tracks which include:

1. Computer Engineering and Information Technology

2. General Engineering and Applications

3. Digital and Wireless Communication

4. Construction Engineering

5. Environmental and Hydraulic Engineering

6. Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering

The rate of acceptance was 62.5% while 45 papers were accepted and presented. Erbil Polytechnic University and Tishk International University are grateful to all prospective presenters for their valuable contributions that will bring new perspectives on the developments in Civil and Computer Engineering to Kurdistan Region.

1. Computer Engineering and Information Technology – 15 out of 23 papers received were accepted

2. General Engineering and Applications – 8 out of 12 papers received were accepted

3. Digital and wireless Communication – 9 out of 14 papers received were accepted

4. Construction Engineering – 9 out of 12 papers received were accepted

5. Environmental and Hydraulic Engineering- 1 paper was accepted

6. Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering -3 out of 7 papers received were accepted

Some papers were either rejected after the review process or withdrawn due to the inability of the paper to pass basic pre-review checks e.g. plagiarism, outside of conference scope, and so on.

This year, the conference had the opportunity to host distinguished keynote speakers in different fields. The three keynote speakers and the topic they presented are listed below:

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First Keynote Speaker: Dr. Amr Ahmed, Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK,

Keynote Speech: Computing and Digital Technologies in Health

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Second Keynote Speaker: Dr. Firas Aljanabi, Coordinator of the Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre in Germany

Keynote Speech: Water Security and Global Change: Solutions towards Sustainability

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Third Keynote Speaker: Dr. Subhi Rafeeq Mohammed Zeebaree, Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Duhok,

Keynote Speech: New Hashing Algorithm and an Authentication Technique to Improve IoT Security

In other veins, two workshops were organized to stimulate academic engagements and exchange of ideas in frontiers of research.

The first workshop was “International workshop on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Modern Applications”, which was moderated by Dr. Assist. Prof. Salar Khudir Hussein. The workshop was presented by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdul-Rahman Alsewari (Faculty of Computing, University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia), Dr. Md Arafatur Rahman, and Associate Professor Dr. Saman Mirza Abdullah (Academician in Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University).

The second workshop was titled “Renewable Energy & Energy Management”, which was moderated by Dr. Shahab Wahab Kareem (Erbil Polytechnic University) and presented by Prof. Govand H. Sherwani, & Assist. Prof. Dr. Ranj Sirwan.

We are grateful to our sponsors Clever Scientific Company and Vana Company.