Integrated CAD by Optimization
Description
- Adopts a problem solving approach in planning, design, and management stressing IT and Computer Application in AEC sector as a whole;
- Emphasizes resource-efficiency and social equity in problem solution in the AEC sector in general, and in urban development and management in particular;
- Stresses optimization and an integrated approach covering all components, including costs, affordability and environmental factors, scarcity of resources, and resolution of conflicting interests;
- Includes an accessible overview and source codes of C++ and Auto Lisp programs needed to carry out design analysis, optimization and drafting-drawing in an integrated manner.
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Dr. B K Chakrabarty worked in HUDCO as Executive Director and in various other capacities since its inception, and working presently as an Independent Consultant and Researcher. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). He received his B.E. from the Calcutta University, M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from Delhi University, and Ph.D. from IIT, Delhi in India. He has a Diploma in Town Planning from the Calcutta University, and completed a course on Development Planning, in University College London. He was a member of the Action Group on Urban Management constituted by the Government of India, and designed Diploma and Degree Programs on Urban Management Education at Human Settlement Management Institute, Delhi under a Consultancy Study. He received a prize from the Institution of Engineers (India) for his paper on CAD. He has authored one book and published over fifty technical papers in several of the above areas in reputed refereed national and international journalsand conference proceedings.
