Teaching socio-political courses in the framework of modernization of engineering education

Abstract

Relevance of the issue under consideration is due to the impowce of the problem of modemization of engineering education. Socio-political subjects are play an impowt role in the development of a qualified engineer able to solve innovative creative tasks, since, they serve to form a systemic vision of the relationshp between scientific and technological innovatiom and their comequences for the society to widen one's horizon and foster eruudition in various areas of expehse, first of all in the hstory of scientific and technological activity. The study aims at studying place and role of the socio-political branches of knowledge in modemization of the future engineers training. The leadmg method in studying the problem was analysis of the teachng socio-political courses to students in engineering and technical fields of study and drawing lessons from it which would reveal the major cross-dsciplimq issues of concem expected to be acquired by the students. Problematic issues in teachng socio-political courses have been analyzed with the aim of improving the future engineers training and development of the relevant knowledge, abilities and skills in them. Methodological approaches to teachng socio-political courses to students in engineering and technical fields of study have been developed. Recommendations on the improvement of teaching socio-political courses have been formulated. A place and role of the hstory of scientific and technological activity as an important cross-disciplimq field of knowledge and teachng it to the future engineers in the socio-political courses have been determined. Materials of the paper can be used by teaching stuff and higher school administration in improving the quality of education of the students in engineering and techcal fields of study by the students in engineering and technical fields of study themselves (in Bachelor's, Master's and specialist's programs) as well as by all interested in problems of engineering education and the history of scientific and technological activity. © Medwell Journals, 2018.