Organizational Structure of the College

Scientific Departments

Since its establishment, the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences / University of Baghdad has witnessed a great development in the number of scientific disciplines and the fields of those disciplines, after the college consists of one specialization (general agriculture) it now includes (10) scientific departments covering all agricultural disciplines in its various branches and these sections are :

1- Department of Animal Production: Established in (1952).

2- Department of Agricultural Extension and Technology Transfer: Established in (1952).

3- Department of Food Sciences: Established in (1962).

4- Department of Field Crop Sciences: Established in (1962).

5- Department of Agricultural Economics: Established in (1962).

6- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening: Established in (1963).

7- Department of Soil Sciences and Water Resources: Established in (1967)

8- Plant Protection Department: Established in (1972-1973).

9- Department of Agricultural Machines and Equipment: Established in (1987).

10- Department of Desertification Combat: Established in (2013).

After the year 1955, the first year in which faculty members graduated under the letter of the Ministry of Agriculture 11439 dated 17/11/1955, the following table shows the number of faculty members for the year 1955.

Total Number	Scientific title
	professor	Assistant Professor	teacher	Assistant Lecturer
25 faculty members	5	8	10	2

The latest statistics of the number of faculty teachers for the year 2024 are represented by 388 faculty members, as follows:

Department	Total Number	Scientific title
		professor	Assistant Professor	Lecturer	Assistant Lecturer
Department of Agricultural Extension and Technology Transfer	16	2	4	8	2
Department of Agricultural Economics	21	3	8	7	3
Department of Animal Production	61	23	15	17	6
Department of Food Sciences	50	14	11	12	13
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening	45	8	14	16	7
Department of Soil Sciences and Water Resources	32	5	11	14	2
Department of Field Crop Sciences	40	14	12	8	6
Department of Agricultural Machines and Equipment	46	3	17	17	9
Plant Protection Department	58	6	18	19	15
Department of Desertification Combat	19	4	4	10	1
Total	388	80	116	126	66

 

Each of these departments includes a group of classrooms and scientific laboratories for primary and graduate students, and some of these departments include a group of fields (plant and animal) that are used for the purpose of training students and conducting research and scientific experiments for professors and graduate students.

In addition to the scientific departments, there is a basic science division concerned with teaching various sciences and a computer unit concerned with teaching computers that includes a group of laboratories for graduate and primary students, as well as the Internet unit for Wi-Fi services, and the website unit, which is interested in publishing all its scientific and educational activities through the college’s special website .

The Division of Basic Sciences has recently joined the Department of Agricultural Machinery and Machinery with all its laboratories and teachers

The college also includes scientific research units , namely:

• Date Palm Research Unit

• Biological Control Unit

• Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Unit

Administrative Divisions

The administrative divisions are an important vital part of the college and are concerned with personnel affairs and archiving has introduced the computer in these events since 2001 to facilitate these tasks, some of which are related to the administrative assistant and some of which are related to the scientific assistant and some of which is linked to the Dean directly and these divisions are:

1 Media and Government Communication Division

2. Division of Finance

3 Library Division

4 Division of Human Resources

5 Legal Division

6 Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Division

7 Services Division

8 Studies and Planning Division

9 Division of Preliminary Studies Affairs

10 Graduate Studies Affairs Division

11. Follow-up Division

12. Student Activities Division

13. Control and Internal Audit Division

Administrative Units

The administrative units in the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering Sciences are important for the management of the college, some of which are related to the administrative assistant, some of which are related to the scientific assistant, and some of them are directly related to the dean, and each of them has its own work and the units are :

1 Citizens Affairs Unit

2 Government Program Unit

3 Continuing Education Unit

4 Scientific Journal Unit

5 Chemical Storage Unit

6 Information Technology Unit

7 Higher Education Fund Unit

8 Reconstruction and Projects Unit

9 College Council Secretariat Unit

10 Scientific Promotions Unit

11- Government Contracts Unit

12- Rehabilitation and Employment Unit

13- Mirror Empowerment Unit

14- Rehabilitation and Employment Unit

15 – unit of psychological counseling and educational guidance

16- Ibn Sina E-Learning Unit

17. Scientific Affairs Unit

18. Missions and Cultural Relations Unit

19- Agricultural Field Stations Unit

20- Security Clearance Office (at the level of an administrative unit)

 

The College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences / University of Baghdad has witnessed a great development in the scientific field that included all departments, divisions and units in order to provide the opportunity for primary grade students, graduate students and researchers from the Ministry of Agriculture and the rest of the ministries and government departments to take sufficient space for study and scientific expansion and provide opportunities for all students wishing to join it as it is the oldest college at the University of Baghdad.

During the past decades, the college also witnessed multiple visits, including the visit of King Faisal II and his distribution of certificates of appreciation to graduates in 1956, in addition to the visit of the German Minister of Agriculture to the dairy factory in 1981, and the repeated visits of a number of members of the House of Representatives and officials in the Iraqi government, where the development at the level of infrastructure and equipping laboratories with the latest laboratory equipment was praised, as well as the visit of the former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Mr. Ali Al-Adeeb 2011, in which he said that what is happening in the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences – University of Baghdad of conferences, research and scientific seminars are in the service of Iraq and its future and the advancement of the reality of higher education and scientific research in the field of agriculture and its effective role in the future of nations to reach practical goals and explorations by researchers in the field of agriculture.

On the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the founding of the University of Baghdad, the former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Prof. Dr. Hussein Al-Shahristani, opened the annual exhibition of the products of the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, which was held at the University of Baghdad – Al-Jadriyah in 2015.

In 2024, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naim Abdul Yasser Al-Aboudi, visited the pavilion dedicated to the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences at the exhibition of scientific products of Iraqi universities, where His Excellency praised research, patents and new ideas that would advance the scientific process and advance the agricultural reality in Iraq.

As well as the visit of the former Minister of Agriculture and Advisor to the Presidency in the Iraqi Parliament, Dr. Saleh Hassan Al-Hasani in 2024, who said, “The advancement of the agricultural reality requires exceptional efforts by specialists and successful mechanisms that activate the role of the agricultural sector and benefit from the experiences of developed countries, as well as government support for farmers and agricultural engineers and interest in agriculture as the pillar of life.