Dr. Kirshnan Suresh is the Philip and Jean Myers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is also Director of the Engineering Representations and Simulation Lab. In 2018 he was honored as the recipient of the James G. Woodburn Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and in 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
'Design Optimization using MATLAB and SOLIDWORKS by Dr. Suresh provides an excellent review of various optimization methods, especially for structural problems. Its introduction to MATLAB would help students who have had little experience with this software to become familiar with it quickly and apply it to some of the basic optimization problems.' Hamid Torab, Gannon University 'Dr. Suresh's text brings his contributions to shape optimization into the classroom by connecting optimization, MATLAB, SOLIDWORKS, and SOLIDLAB into a single textbook. This text enables the reader to build upon this research accomplishment. I look forward to seeing what my students can achieve with this textbook at their fingertips.' Cameron Turner, Clemson University