On January 9th, 2020, The National University Ranking (NUR-MHE) announced its 2019-Edition for the University Ranking in Kurdistan Region. In 2019-Edition, none of the Universities were in group A. Koya University was ranked in Group-B, among the top Universities in Kurdistan Region. The Announcement ceremony was in Sheraton Erbil Hotel. The Ceremony of announcement was presented by H.E.The Minister of Minstery of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

A Group of researchers from Koya University, Kermanshah University of Technology (KUT), Shiraz University of Technology (SUTECH) and the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) published a research paper entitled “Design and Fabrication of a Novel Compact Low-loss Microstrip Diplexer for WCDMA and WiMAX Applications” in the Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications (JMOe). The paper presents a novel design and fbrication of a  miniaturized microstrip diplexer using two bandpass filters (BPFs). Professor Salah I. Yahya is among the researchers, from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University. The reaserch article has been publish on December 2019. The Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications (JMOe) is indexed by SOPUS with Q3 level.

A work etitled "Gait-based Gender Classification Using Smartphone Accelerometer Sensor" from a group of Department of Software Engineering (DSWE) and Department of Mathematics staff has been presented at “2019 5th International Conference on Frontiers of Signal Processing (ICFSP)” which has been sponsored by IEEE France Section. The location of the conference was Marseille, France.  Aras T Asaad has presented the work at the conference.

Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University participated in the 2019 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) that held on 10-13 December 2019, in Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Prof. Yahya presented his paper entitled "A Novel Harmonic Attenuator Quad-Channel Microstrip Diplexer for Multi-Service Communication Systems."  The paper will be available soon in the Digital Library of IEEE Xplore that indexed by SCOPUS and Calrivate Analytics. The program of the APMC-2019 conference is available online (click here)

A training course entitled "Causes of Decay and Preservation of Building Architectural Heritage" has been held during the period Sept. 15 – Oct. 20, 2019 by the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of  Antiquities and Heritage in collaboration with the Czech National Heritage Institute and GEMA ART International s.r.o in Erbil with 14 participants including two teachers from the department of Architectural Engineering (DARE) at Koya University, who were nominated by the Czech trainers:

Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University participated in the International Conference on Engineering, Science, and Industrial Applications (ICESI 2019) that was held in Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, during the period August 22-24, 2019. Prof. Yahya chaired a session on August 24, 2019 as well as presented his paper entitled: Wide Stopband Microstrip Diplexer Using a Novel Configuration for Frequency Division Duplex and GSM-4G Applications. The paper will be available soon in the Digital Library of IEEE Xplore that indexed by SCOPUS. The abstract proceeding of the ICESI 2019 conference is available online (click here)

Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University with a research group from Iran and Malaysia published a research article entitled “A Compact Microstrip Triplexer with a Novel Structure Using Patch and Spiral Cells for Wireless Communication Applications” in the Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters (PIER L).

The paper presents a novel design of a compact size microstrip triplexer that can be used in wireless communication.

The paperwork is funded by the Kermanshah University of Technology and supported by Koya University.

Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University with a research group from Iran and Malaysia published a research article entitled “Design of a novel wideband microstrip diplexer using artificial neural network” in the Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing Journal. The paper presents a novel design of wideband microstrip diplexer that can be used in wireless communication. The paperwork is funded by the Kermanshah University of Technology and supported by Koya University.

Dr. Bestun Shwan, a Lecturer and head of the Department of Geotechnical Engineering (DGEN), Faculty of Engineering at Koya University participated the 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Glasgow 2019) by presenting a scientific paper entitled “The effect of suction on ground surface settlement for a tunnel”. The international symposium was held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

On the way to implement Bologna Process at Koya University starting from the Academic year 2019-2020, Koya University held a 12 weeks intensive training course entitled ‘Implementing Bologna Process with Assistance of the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment’. The training course was supervised and presented by Prof. Dr. Salah I. Yahya. The training course was held during the months March, April, May and June. The first 6 weeks’ sessions were for all Koya University academic teaching staff, whereas, the second 6 weeks’ sessions were for the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.