International and local news agencies published the proceedings of the fifth scientific conference of the Southern Technical University on advanced engineering techniques, which was hosted this year by the Technical College of Engineering, Basra. Those agencies quoted paragraphs from the speech of the President of the University, Prof. Dr. Rabih Hashem Chijail, in which he explained that the university aspires, through holding this conference, to harness the scientific research capabilities of engineering technology to serve the community and the sustainability of scientific progress and prosperity by attracting creative researchers in the various fields of engineering as well as exchanging ideas And scientific expertise and providing opportunities for professors, researchers and postgraduate students to learn about the latest new results and increase their scientific knowledge, as well as those agencies praised the size of the scientific participation of researchers and the importance of their research as well as the important recommendations that resulted in this field, including the development of curricula to keep pace with the rapid developments in technical sciences In line with e-learning, the market need, and the skills required of the graduate, and encouraging researchers to establish joint research groups and open prospects for cooperation with foreign companies