Engineering informatics

(This article was taken from Wikipedia)

Engineering Informatics is an engineering discipline combining information technology (IT) – or informatics – with engineering concepts; It is an interdisciplinary scientific area focusing on the application of advanced computing, information, and communication technologies to engineering.

Engineering technology areas

It encompasses engineering technology areas in:

• Distributed Engineering and Business Services
• Sensing, Monitoring, Control and Structural Dynamics
• Human and Social Modelling for Design Simulations
• Computational Engineering
• Networking computing for Engineering
• IT Applications in Engineering
• Systems and Network Technologies
• Interactive Media and Internet Development
• Logistics Management

Universities and institutions offering Engineering Informatics

Engineering Informatics is a field of undergraduate study in some universities and polytechnics:

Hungary

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Lithuania

• Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas

Singapore

• Nanyang Polytechnic of Singapore (Engineering Informatics Programme)

Publications

• Advanced Engineering Informatics is a journal publication in the field of engineering informatics.
• The Need for a Science of Engineering Informatics. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AI-EDAM), 2007, 21:1(23–26).
• JCISE Special Issue, March 2008 This special issue has a guest editorial and a few research papers in the Engineering Informatics domain.

Research

• Engineering Informatics Group, a research group at Stanford University, USA