Today, Sunday 29/03/2020, the Koya University Council, Head of Departments, Director of Quality Assurance and the Director of IT (35 staff) had an online video conference (meeting) for about 2 hrs (11:00 am - 01:00 pm). The video conference was about the e-learning at KOU and the e-infrastructure that available for the academics and students. The Meeting was directed by Dr. Wali Hamad, the president of KOU.

Koya University is continously holding workshops and presenting seminars about the new serious threat to public health, which is coronavirus COVID-19. Please, read this essay:

Live Statistics (May 1st, 2020): 
Coronavirus cases: 3,375,920
Death: 238,163
Recovered: 1,071,989
Countries and teritories affected by COVID-19: 212
Countries with recovered cases: 0
Iraq: Coronavirus cases: 2,153  |  Deaths: 94
Iran: Coronavirus cases: 95,646  |  Deaths: 6,091  ....

A research paper that present by Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University  in the 2019 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) that held on 10-13 December 2019, has been deposited to the IEEE Xplore . The paper entitled "A Novel Harmonic Attenuator Quad-Channel Microstrip Diplexer for Multi-Service Communication Systems," 

Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University with a research group from Iran, Vietnam and Malaysia published a research article entitled “Design of a low-loss microstrip diplexer with a compact size based on coupled meandrous open-loop resonators” in the Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing Journal. The paper presents design and fabrication of a novel microstrip diplexer. It has two quite close channels at 1.67 GHz and 1.88 GHz make it suitable for FDD schemes and GSM applications. 

Journal Coverage:
Clarivate Analytics (Wos: IF = 0.823)
Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Current Contents - Engineering, Computing & Technology
Electronics & Telecommunications Collection
SCOPUS: Q3

Dr. Fahmi F. Mohammadsharif at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Health, Koya University Published a new resaerch articlle entitled "A new insight into the temperature induced molecular aggregations in tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) metals." The research article has been published in the Journal of Materials Research and Technology which indexed by Clarivate Analytics with IF=3.327 and SCOPUS with Level Q1. The article authors are: Fahmi F. Muhammadsharif, Suhairul Hashim, Khaulah Sulaiman, G. Baldacchini.

The results achived by this reseach article opened a new route of fabricating highly emissive thin films of amorphous nanostructure, which are specifically important for organic light emitting diode (OLED) based displays.

A research group including a researcher from Koya University, Dr. Halgurd Sarhang Maghdid, published a study entitled "A Novel AI-enabled Framework to Diagnose Coronavirus COVID 19 using Smartphone Embedded Sensors: Design Study" in the arXiv archive. The research group proposed a new framework to detect coronavirus disease COVID-19 using onboard smartphone sensors. The study authors are: Halgurd S. Maghdid, Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, Ali Safaa Sadiq, Kevin Curran, Khaled Rabie

A Group of researchers from Kermanshah University of Technology (KUT), Koya University and the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) published a research paper entitled “A novel microstrip diplexer with compact size and high isolation for GSM applications” in the AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications. The paper Presents a novel high-performance microstrip diplexer to operate at 0.78 GHz and 1.85 GHz for GSM applications. Professor Salah I. Yahya is among the researchers, from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications is indexed by Clarivate Analytics with IF=2.853 and indexed by SCOPUS with level Q2.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, all the Universities and institutions in Iraq and the whole world are closed now. The Study may be pursued in April, as the KRG and KOU announced, but we should have our plan B if the situation will be worse and the Universities will remain closed till June or even later. KOU started the online e-lecturing program to be in touch with their students and the students can take their lectures, assignements online while they are staying at home.

A Group of researchers; Hayder H, Abbas, Fakhri H. Ibraheem, Ahmad A. Maaroof from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University published a new original research article entitled  "Pollution Problems in Koya City due to Private Electrical Generators" in the Volume 7, Number 2 (2019) issue of ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University.