Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice

Its great book for anyone who wants to learn Optimization basics as well as few notes on advanced techniques. I am big fan of Rao's books ( Vibrations !) . The concepts are explained nicely along with illustrated examples . Although I never used , there are Matlab codes given in the book which can be useful. Overall I highly recommend this book.

Pretty good explanations for a complicated topic. The book is physically huge with lots of theory and detailed examples. Not a fun read, but neither is the field of optimization.

Each chapter includes examples which makes this book great study material.

Excellent book!! It presents many of the optimization techniques and focuses on the algorithms. It was very useful in my Optimization classes.

The book is everything I expected for the class I was taking. Downside is I had to drop the class.

Dear Sir,it has been over 6 months since i purchased this book and i still have not receive it.i browsed through your website and found no way of contacting you..so i am using this as an avenue to say that please deliver my book. i need to use it.Thank you.Malik

This book is not very practical, it flashes you with many concepts that you somehow need to remember starting from chapter 1. It is focused towards mechanical or civil engineers, some stuff is common engineering curricula, most of it is not, im an electrical engineer and most example problems seem so foreign to me, the author is a mechanical engineer so it figures. I was mislead by the positive reviews of this book.

GOOD BOOK, PERFECT FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS THAT ARE FACING FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH OPTIMIZATIONS PROBLEM, ALSO GOOD FOR PRO ENGINEERS.

A very good book to understand the process of optimizations.