The International Association of Engineers (IAENG) is a
non-profit
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international association for
engineer
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s and
computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...
s. IAENG was founded by a group of engineers and computer scientists in 1968, originally as a
private club
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network for its founding members. Nowadays, IAENG has its secretariat office in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
with more than 140,000 members (May 2014) and holds the annual congress World Congress on Engineering for the
engineering research
Engineering research - as a branch of science, it stands primarily for research that is oriented towards achieving a specific goal that would be useful, while seeking to employ the powerful tools already developed in Engineering as well as in non ...
communities.
The association is a promoter of the
open-access publications. All of its current publications have adopted the open-access policy, including its popular titl
Engineering Letters The association also cooperates with publishers like Springer, American Institute of Physics and World Scientific Publishing etc. to publish the book series IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies.
External links
International Association of Engineers About IAENG Home PageWorldCat Records of World Congress on EngineeringSCIMago Journal & Country Rank IAENG International Journal of Computer ScienceSCIMago Journal & Country Rank IAENG International Journal of Applied MathematicsDOAJ Content Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
DOAJ Content Engineering Letters
Springer publishing IAENG booksAIP Scitation of IAENG booksWorld Scientific Publishing IAENG books
References
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Engineering societies
Engineering societies by country
International organizations based in Hong Kong
International professional associations
Professional associations based in Hong Kong
1968 in Beijing