Visiting Scholar at Berkeley

Berkeley: Telecommunications and information technology; electrical engineering; data communication and computer networking

PhD in Electronic & Communication Engineering

Lecturer in University Engineering College

She writes “ EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) in UC Berkeley represents one of the top departments in the world.” She is auditing classes in her field, and working with an academic advisor in the Wireless Research Center, where she says she” is very excited and glad to participate in such new fantastic research”. She also says,”I hope to transfer the technology to my country and to help in activating a bridge between the Iraqi universities and the local companies”.

“I presented my work at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center retreat today, I was very excited because of the good attendance of 40 companies from Germany, Finland, USA, Korea, and Japan…They asked me if I will continue working on this project [in Iraq] and of course my answer was sure…I hope to remain in contact with the group”.

She is now back in Iraq, working to reform research policy at her university, teaching and managing a Cisco Networking Academy

Visiting Scholar at Stanford

Stanford: Electrical engineering/ power engineering/ energy efficiency

PhD in Power Engineering

Lecturer/ Assistant Professor in University Engineering College

Her Iraqi university is working on developing Geographic Information System (GIS) control for power distribution In Iraq. She is developing her skills to support this work through course audits, research team collaboration on “the smart grid” and internet linkages. She is also learning new teaching methods, including digitalized Instruction, to take back to her university.

She writes “I am auditing seven different classes… the most important a GIS class which is my specialty… and contacting electrical companies so that I can take an idea about their control centers and the application of GIS in these centers… to apply these new experiences in my country to help my people and my country to recover from the last period.”

She became deeply interested in renewable energy while at Stanford, and was asked by her minister to establish a university-based research/education center in renewable energy on return to Iraq.

She is now back in Iraq, supporting the application of GIS control of power distribution and developing a first renewable energy facility at her university. She writes, “In my university, I returned to my students and lectures… [with] … courses in renewable energy…” She has become manager of the laboratories at her college, with plans, under government review, for extending a renewable energy program nationwide.

More recently, she writes “I’m now head of the Electrical Engineering Section in The Electrical Engineering Department…giving me larger space to apply my ideas to improve the level of the students and the faculty members in my college. The first thing I helped to do was to reopen the PhD study in the department, which has been canceled for ten years…we are building connections with the outside scientific work by on-line conferences…and assisting a faculty committee [across multiple universities] to improve teaching and research processes.” 

She writes “I consider us [IWFF] as partners in building a new Iraq, by giving Iraqi women their chances to become effective citizens in our society… Finally, I would like to say that I’m ready to help you in any way I can, and I appreciate you great efforts.”

Visiting Scholar at UC San Diego

UCSD: Computer security and virus protection; computer science, telecommunication and information technology; women in science

MSc in Information Technology

Teacher, University College of Science

She is working to strengthen her skills in internet software systems and internet security. She is auditing six courses in her field, and has been placed as an observer in the internet security work ongoing at UCSD’s Center for Network Systems. She is also working on a TIES (Teams in Engineering Service) program that works with community partners.

On her return to Iraq, she wrote that she was “working with the Minister of Higher Education on many projects for which I had great experiences from our IWFF program”, and maintaining contact with UCSD. More recently she has written “I will be working with my students on a new project in e-business in Iraq…teaching an internet system course, and assisting with the faculty committee, to improve teaching and research processes.”