Specifics of teaching engineering drawing to foreign students of construction degrees

Abstract

The paper raises a number of questions helping to understand the difficulties in mastering Engineering Graphics by foreign students. It also provides answers to these questions, based on interviews and polls with foreign students studying at the Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbSUACE). A series of recommendations on organizing the educational process for foreign students studying architecture and civil engineering is provided. The paper considers issues of the availability of specialized literature, conducting additional consultations, organizing monitoring of academic performance, creating special educational groups, organizing an additional introductory course, using multimedia technologies, etc.