世界是非线性的，线性只是其近似描述，混沌的发现表明：某些确定性非线性系统具有内在的随机行为。事实上，以往20年，无所不在的混沌现象几乎在每个学科都有所报道，如数学、物理学、化学，甚至社会科学。但理论研究学者的主要兴趣在于探究混沌的本质。与此同时，混沌的实际利用在许多工程领域受到重视，如信息工程、系统工程、医药工程、农业工程、电气工程、生物工程、机械工程、土木工程等。混沌工程学是一门新的研究混沌实际利用及其基本理论的非线性工程科学。文章对现代混沌工程学的定义、对象、概念、方法、理论与应用加以总结，并介绍其近来的进展及作者的工作。混沌工程学在国民经济与国防建设中研究的热点是：混沌分析技术，混沌控制技术与混沌生成技术。

The world is nonlinear, linearity is oly its approximate description. The discovery of chaos has showed that some deterministic nonlinear systems exhibit inner random behavior. Over the past two decades, chaos was such a universal phenomenon that it was reported virtually in every scientific discipline ： mathematics, physics, chemistry, and even the social sciences. The main interest for theoretical academicians has been to investigate the essence of chaos. At the same time, practical applicatioins of chaos have been widely appreciated in many engineering fields such as information engineering, system engineering, medical engineering, agricultural engineering, electrical engineering，biological engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, etc. Chaos Engineering is a new nonlinear engineering science to research the practical use of chaos and its fundamental theory. In this paper, the object, definition, concept, method, theory and application of modern Chaos Engineering are summarized. Some works done by the author and the recent advances are introduced. The fcx:us of Chaos Engineering research and development in national economy and national defense may include chaos analytic technique, chaos control technique and chaos synthetic technique.