The knowledge-based intelligent engineering: New engineering

A postgraduate program (by research) is started in knowledge-based intelligent engineering in the University of South Australia in 1992. The knowledge-based systems are designed to mimic the performance of a human expert by transferring his/her expertise to the computer in a specific field. Artificial neural networks can mimic the biological information processing mechanism in a very limited sense. The fuzzy logic provides a basis for representing uncertain and Imprecise knowledge and forms of a basis for human reasoning. The trend is to fuse these never paradigms for offsetting the demerits of one paradigm by the merits of another. This paper provides an overview of the engineering education as well as the knowledge-based intelligent, engineering.