Professor Gyung-Jin Park has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea since 1989. His areas of research include: structural optimal design, machine design and CAD/CAM. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University in 1980, his MS in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST in 1982 and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 1986. Professor Park is a board member of Springer's journal, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. Analytic Methods for Design Practice results from Professor Park's teaching of courses i...