ABSTRACT
Learning about engineering designing requires first acquiring several basic concepts, which will be used by us to define more complex concepts and to develop our understanding of this fascinating domain. Our approach to engineering designing will be based on a combination of systems and knowledge approaches. That means that we will be using thinking based on systems analysis and that we will understand engineering designing as comprising various activities associated with knowledge-its acquisition, transformation, and utilization. Therefore, we need to understand first several concepts that are directly related to our investigative approach. We will also discuss such concepts as transdisciplinarity, emergent behavior, knowledge convergence, synthesis, and synesthesia and will explain how these relate to inventive engineering. These ideas are not well known in the field of engineering and therefore present a new framework with which to look at the subject of our interest.
