This article is devoted to studying the influence of technological changes on transforming the necessary set of skills for engineering occupations. The expected changes in qualification requirements for engineers is based on the analysis of industrial revolution. The growing importance of soft skills is acknowledged. The methodological conclusions regarding the need to take into account the level of triple helix awareness, along with the parameters of the labor market when forecasting the directions for qualification requirements transformation for engineers were substantiated. It is noted that being ahead in the formation of new skills may have a positive impact on the growth in innovative activity. It is this aspect of the relationship between technology and qualification development trends that determines the role of educational organizations in the innovation ecosystem. It is shown that the convergence of technologies leads to an expansion of the range of professions referred to as engineering. The use of particular tools for assessing the demand for competencies allows solving only situational research tasks, whereas in the meanwhile scientifically advanced ecosystems require a system for monitoring technological and qualification changes, primarily in relation to engineering qualifications, since they can become a "bottleneck" of technological development. A methodology for systematizing the influence of technological trends on the qualification requirements is proposed. The mentioned methodology is based on bringing into conformity reciprocal trends on the meso-level within the framework of triple helix cooperation on the regional scale. As the labor market acquires flow characteristics, the need for separate monitoring procedures will decrease, with analysis algorithm simplifying.

The article describes the computer implementation of an objective assessment and selection of the best project for the technical re-equipment of an industrial enterprise. Based on the opinions of experts, it is established that the efficiency of the technical re-equipment project is an integral indicator consisting of four aggregated characteristics: economic efficiency, technical and technological efficiency, social efficiency and environmental efficiency. Each of these characteristics consists of individual indicators, expressed in different units of measurement. Different perceptions by individuals of the importance of each of these indicators, as well as a wide variation in understanding how an effective technical re-equipment project should look, make the development of such an appraisal model relevant. The model of estimation is based on the ideas of the theory of fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets. The model is developed in the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox package of the MATLAB software environment.