Engineering Informatics is an engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 discipline combining information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 (IT) – or informatics

Informatics (academic field)

Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

 – with engineering concepts; It is an interdisciplinary scientific area focusing on the application of advanced computing, information and communication technologies to engineering.

Engineering technology areas

It encompasses engineering technology areas in:

• Distributed Engineering and Business Services
• Sensing, Monitoring, Control and Structural Dynamics
• Human and Social Modelling for Design Simulations
• Computational Engineering
• Networking computing for Engineering
• IT Applications in Engineering
• Systems and Network Technologies
• Interactive Media and Internet Development
• Logistics Management

Universities and institutions offering Engineering Informatics

Engineering Informatics is a field of undergraduate study in some universities and polytechnics:

Lithuania

• Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas

Singapore

• Nanyang Polytechnic
  Nanyang Polytechnic
  Nanyang Polytechnic is a Singaporean polytechnic located in Ang Mo Kio next to Yio Chu Kang MRT Station, Singapore.-History:*Established 1 April 1992...
  
   of Singapore (Engineering Informatics Programme)

Publications

• Advanced Engineering Informatics is a journal publication in the field of engineering informatics.
• The Need for a Science of Engineering Informatics. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AI-EDAM), 2007, 21:1(23–26).
• JCISE Special Issue, March 2008 This special issue has a guest editorial and a few research papers in the Engineering Informatics domain.

Research

• Engineering Informatics Group, a research group at Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  , USA