The International Association of Engineers (IAENG) is a
non-profit
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international association for
engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...
s and
computer scientist
A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
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
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with more than 140,000 members (May 2014) and holds the annual congress World Congress on Engineering for the
engineering research
Engineering research seeks improvements in theory and practice in fields such as (for example) high-speed computation, bioengineering, earthquake prediction, power systems, nanotechnology and construction.
Major contributors to engineering rese ...
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 ScienceDOAJ Content Engineering LettersSpringer publishing IAENG booksAIP Scitation of IAENG booksWorld Scientific Publishing IAENG books
References
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