Optimization Methods for Engineering Problems (PDF)

Mohit Tyagi, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Production Engineering Department at the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, India. His areas of research are industrial engineering, supply chain management, corporate social responsibility, performance measurement systems, data science, and fuzzy inference systems. He has around six years of teaching and research experience. He has guided 15 postgraduate dissertations and 13 undergraduate projects and is currently supervising several MTech and PhD scholars. Dr. Tyagi has over 55 publications in international and national journals and proceedings of international conferences to his credit. He is a reviewer for many international journals, including International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Application and Practices, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal; International Journal of Logistics System Management; and Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. He has organized two international conferences, one as a joint organizing secretary at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, and other as a convener at NIT, Jalandhar. He has also organized three Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme-sponsored short-term courses and faculty development program in his area of expertise. Dr. Tyagi earned his BTech (Mechanical Engineering) (with honors) from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow; his MTech (Product Design and Development) (with a gold medal) from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad; and his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

Ravi Pratap Singh, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. His broad areas of research are advanced machining methods, ultrasonic machining, rotary ultrasonic machining, ceramics, composites, optimization methods, and micro-structure analysis. He has published about 35 research articles in several SCI/Scopus indexed journals and national and international conferences, as well as several book chapters. Dr. Singh is academically as editor and reviewer of several SCI/Scopus indexed journals. He has supervised two MTech scholars, and there are currently several master's and doctoral research work going on under his supervision. He is a life member of the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), Mumbai, India, and SCIence and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), Los Angeles, USA. Dr. Singh has organized one international conference at NIT Jalandhar as convener. He has received a Young Scientist in Mechanical Engineering VIRA-2019 award and a Young Faculty in Engineering (major area: mechanical engineering) in VIFA-2019 awards from the Venus International Foundation. He earned his PhD from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.