• knowledge of the basic categories, tools and techniques of project activities; knowledge of the design techniques of individual product design with variable structure;
• to be able to explore the different pre-project situation at every complexity level; to use the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge in design of industrial products;
• understanding of the features and patterns of project culture as part of social and cultural environment.

Prerequisites:
• Project engineering, parts 1, 2, 3,4
• Fundamentals of composition and shaping, part 1
• Fundamentals of composition and shaping, part 2
• Fundamentals of ergonomics

Design features of the object with variable structure. Choose of the project topic. Definition of technical specification. Choose and analysis of analogues and prototypes. Search of project image of design object, determining the level of complexity of its variable structure. Layout search of the project proposal. Developing of project documentation and explanatory note for the designed products.

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• current control: accomplishing of practical classes and term paper (80%);
• term paper defense (20%).