The University Curricula Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) has created a new subreddit, named /r/CompIntellCourses, in order to build a collection of links to good quality courses on "everything CI." Teachers all over the world are invited to submit their courses, if the teaching material available for free. This is a very nice way to produce an organized catalog of high-quality lectures in the field, making it easier for the everybody to learn about some CI technologies from scratch, or to keep up-to-date with new trends.
Our course Metaheuristic Optimization is one of the first courses that has been included in this list. Metaheuristic optimization is concerned with solving computationally hard problems using soft computing methods and therefore is a field of Computational Intelligence. Our course is based on our previous courses Practical Optimization Algorithm Design taught by Prof. Weise at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) [中国科学技术大学] and some of the units in the course Evolutionary Computation – Theory and Application which also were taught by Prof. Weise at USTC until 2016. It is, however, significantly extended, improved, and adapted to be an introduction to and overview of the field for both graduate students and research team members in our group at Hefei University [合肥学院].