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Engineering
1.1 Definitions, classifications
Engineering discipline, art and profession allowing the accumulation, aggregation and
applying of scientific, technic and economic knowledge, along with practical experience
in order to perform the systematic design and respectively to implement some materials,
devices (products), systems and processes which satisfy the requirements imposed by
various users under well defined economic and security-related conditions.
System = collection of elements interacting to each other ;
Process = succesion of events ending with the obtaining of clearly defined results;
Product = a certain quantity from an artifact, resulting from human activities or as a
consequence of developing specific processes.
Engineer person practicing Engineering. He/she is able to use knowledge from
various domains of activity in order to solve real problems under
technical/natural/economical/social conditions.
Scientists :
- study the nature and natural phenomena
- establish principles, axioms , theorems or algorithms.
Engineers: applies the theoretic principles from various disciplines (Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry, Economics etc.) to create a real product.
human-computer interaction;
computer security;
artificial inteligence;
computer vision;
robotics;
ubiquitous/pervasive computing
etc.
Input/Output Systems;
Real-time Systems;
Computer Systems Testing;
Embedded Systems
Automata Theory;
Compilers Design;
Developing Applications for
Various Domains;
Human-Computer Interface;
Programming Engineering ;
Projects Management;
Real Time Computing Systems;
Software Testing.
developer;
computer programmer;
tester;
technical support
security officer.