Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my colleague Pro-
fessor Karim Abdel-Malek, Director of the
Center for Computer-Aided Design and Pro-
fessor of Biomedical Engineering at The Uni-
versity of Iowa, for his enthusiastic support
for this book and for the exciting research on
optimization-based modeling, simulation
and biomechanics of human motion.
I would like to thank the following col-
leagues for their contribution to some
chapters: Professor Tae Hee Lee – chapter:
Optimum Design with MATLAB®; Dr Tim
Marler – chapter: Multi-objective Optimum
Design Concepts and Methods; Professor
G. J. Park – chapter: Additional Topics on
Optimum Design; and Dr Marcelo A. da
Silva and Dr. Qian Wang – chapter: Practical
­Applications of Optimization.
Dr Yujiang Xiang, Dr Rajan Bhatt,
Dr Hyun-Joon Chung, John Nicholson and
Robert Lucente provided valuable input for
some chapters.
I appreciate the help given by Jun Choi,
John Nicholson, Palani Permeswaran, Karlin
Stutzman, Dr Hyun-Jung Kwon, Dr Hyun-
Joon Chung, and Dr Mohammad Bataineh
with parts of the instructor’s manual.
I would like to thank instructors at vari-
ous universities who have used the book for
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classroom instruction and provided me with
their input.
I acknowledge the input of my current
and former colleagues at The University of
Iowa who have used the book to teach an
undergraduate course on optimum design:
Professors Karim Abdel-Malek, ­ Asghar
Bhatti, Kyung Choi, Vijay Goel, Ray Han,
Harry Kane, George Lance, and Emad
Tanbour.
Thesis works of all of my current and for-
mer graduate students on various topics of
optimization have been invaluable in broad-
ening of my horizons on the subject.
I would like to thank reviewers of various
parts of the book for their suggestions.
I would also like to thank Steve Merken,
Peter Jardim, Kiruthika Govindaraju and
their team at Elsevier for their superb han-
dling of the manuscript and production of
the book.
I value the support of the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cen-
ter for Computer-Aided Design, College of
Engineering, and The University of Iowa for
this project.
Finally, I highly appreciate the uncondi-
tional love and support of my family and
friends.