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Introducing ................................................................................11

Chapter 1 Essence and types of engineering activity...............16

1.1 Engineering activity essence .................................................16
1.1.1 Subject field of engineering activity ............................17
1.1.2 General characteristic of engineering activity ..............23
1.1.3 Engineering criteria .....................................................39
1.1.4 Technical object life cycle ..........................................43
1.1.5 Engineering activity and engineering creativity ...........47
1.1.6 Intellectual property, its objects, forms
and protection methods ...............................................50
1.2 Engineering activity technologies .........................................68
1.2.1 Modeling in engineering activity .................................68
1.2.2 Mathematical models and mathematical modeling.......80

Chapter 2 Engineering activity typology .................................87

2.1 Engineering...........................................................................87
2.1.1 General engineering model..........................................87
2.1.2 Engineering procedures and operations........................90
2.1.3 Engineering stages and phases.....................................96
2.1.4 Conceptual engineering ...............................................99
2.1.5 Technique evolution and laws of development...........108
2.1.6 Engineering and marketing........................................114
2.1.7 Regulation of designed decision ...............................118
2.1.8 Modelling in engineering process ..............................121
2.1.9 Computer-based engineering .....................................123
2.1.10 Quality – current time ideology and control subject .130

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