THE GLOBAL TASKS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND ENGINEERS’ TRAINING AT NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The paper explores the topical tasks of engineering education and considers the ways to solve them both on national basis and on the level of a research university. Engineers’ training requires applying of new approaches such as interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary. The technical university of XXI century must be a transdisciplinary university, and engineers’ education should include training of specialists at enterprises and companies. The other measures include realization of the universities’ own education programs and standards, creating of a network of lycees, and introducing of obligatory unified state examination in physics, chemistry, and biology.

Keywords

• инженерное образование
• национальный исследовательский университет
• междисциплинарность
• трансдисциплинарность
• конвергентный университет
• базовая кафедра
• профильные лицеи
• engineering education
• national research university
• interdisciplinary approach
• transdisciplinary approach
• transdisciplinary university
• basic chair at enterprise
• network of lycees