Evolvable Designs of Experiments: Applications for Circuits

Adopting a groundbreaking approach, the highly regarded author shows how to design methods for planning increasingly complex experiments.
He begins with a brief introduction to standard quality methods and the technology in standard electric circuits. The book then gives numerous examples of how to apply the proposed methodology in a series of real-life case studies. Although these case studies are taken from the printed circuit board industry, the methods are equally applicable to other fields of engineering.

Developments in science and in technology have led to a dramatic increase in the complexity of industrial systems. Studying, designing, building and controlling such complex systems will be a central challenge for engineers in the coming years. Design of experiments (DOE) is a systematic approach for investigating systems and processes. The book presents a new approach - evolvable design - which is a modern way for replacing pre-programmed and fixed problem-solving methods.

Divided into 5 clear parts, the book begins with an introduction to standard quality methods and the technology in standard electric circuits. The second part looks at evolvable designs of experiments (EDOE) in further detail before providing numerous examples of how to apply the proposed methodology in a series of real-life case studies in the third part. The fourth part is given over to evolvability and relates EDOE methods to evolvable circuits, before summarising all the methods and applications in a final part. Although these case studies are taken from the printed circuits industry, the methods are equally applicable to other fields of engineering. A valuable reference for system engineering scientists in industry and for electrical and chemical engineers.

Octavian Iordache obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest and a diploma in mathematics from the University of Bucharest. He was a professor of chemical engineering and has conducted research at several universities in Europe and North America. He is with a Montreal-based start up company involved with Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) activities. His research and teaching pertains to the domains of transport phenomena, chemical reaction engineering, material science, stochastic processes and statistics. He has authored 8 books and over 100 papers.