Engineering of Needs (Eon): The Role of Identifying and Analyzing Needs in Engineering and Engineering Management

Abstract

The article presents the author's thoughts on important issues that in the contemporary engineering is the identification and description of needs, which are the starting point for creating new products, technologies or services. In classical terms, the need to create new or improve existing technical means in the process of meeting needs were considered primarily in terms of technology. The current state of knowledge in the field of engineering knowledge and technology, and above all a clear tendency to expand the traditional area of engineering activities for the non-technical problem fields, generate new problems both in terms of the tasks performed by modern engineers, as well as the requirements for the system of training of students of technical universities oriented preparing them for the role of modern engineers. The author presents in the article some thoughts, as well as some proposals, to use—for the modern sense of identification/recognition of the needs of engineering—methods and tools from the field of technical diagnostics.