Importance of creativity in new product development; creativity and engineering design; limitations and contradictions in design and technology; ideas, creativity, innovation, improvements and inventions; creative process, methods and techniques of stimulating creativity; new products and phases of new product development; synergy of form and function of the product; characteristics of successful products
Classification of fibre; fibre-forming polymers; supra-molecular structure; fibre structure; thermodynamics of stretching; orientation; supra-molecular forces: metastable states and dimensional stability of fibre; factors of fibre properties; modification of a fibre properties (profiled, hollow fibres, bicomponents, microfibres, nanofibres)
Structure of substances, elements and compounds; mass and energy relations in chemical reactions; periodic law; chemical bonding; ideal and real gasses; water and solutions; crystals; chemical kinetics and balance; chemistry of surfaces; electrolytes and non-electrolytes; basics of electrochemistry; ecology.
Mechanics of point particles and rigid bodies; oscillation; elastic deformations; mechanics of liquids; fluctuation; temperatures; laws of energy; electrical currents; electric and magnetic fields; EM oscillation and fluctuation; wave optics; photometry; colour perception; geometric optics; atoms and molecules.
Basic concepts of calculus and linear algebra; numbers and functions; limits and continuity; derivatives; integrals; functions of several variables; applications of differential and integral calculus; linear algebra