in previous years, various studies have been carried out on engineering education and training. based on the results and world transforms, developed strategies have been offered in academic or industrial world, which start from preparation for information technology era to focusing on sustainable developments and global engineering in current age. on the other side, education from research univ...

Ant colony optimization algorithms (ACOs) have been basically introduced to discrete variable problems and applied to different research domains in several engineering fields. Meanwhile, abundant studies have been already involved to adapt different ant models to continuous search spaces. Assessments indicate competitive performance of ACOs on discrete or continuous domains. Therefore, as poten...

this study intended to carry out a survey of engineering college libraries that have computerized their operations and services. it provides an implicit view of the professional experiences of the engineering college librarians in computerizing their house keeping operations. information was collected using a structured questionnaire mailed to 128 engineering college librarians, of which 102 (7...

The failure probability of the structures is one of the challenging problems in structural engineering. To obtain the reliability index introduced by Hasofer and Lind, one needs to solve a nonlinear equality constrained optimization problem. In this study, four of the most recent metaheuristic algorithms are utilized for finding the design point and the failure probability of problems with cont...

This book is intended as an undergraduate text introducing matrix methods as they relate to engineering problems. It begins with the fundamentals of mathematics of matrices and determinants. Matrix inversion is discussed, with an introduction of the well known reduction methods. Equation sets are viewed as vector transformations, and the conditions of their solvability are explored. Orthogonal ...