TEACHING HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN TRAINING OF ENGINEERING PERSONNEL

Abstract

The timeliness of the investigated problem is stipulated by the great importance of the whole complex of questions on improving the quality of engineering personnel training in Russia. In the modern economy, engineering and technical workers, their professionalism and competence are the most important factors for the successful modernization of both the country's economic system in whole and competitiveness of an individual enterprise. The questions of place and role of the history of science and technics in qualitative training of modern engineering and technical personnel are studied in the article and the main points of the history of scientific and technical creativity are revealed, which, in the authors opinion, should be given attention in training of future engineers. It is shown that the history of scientific and technical knowledge is a promising area of scientific research covering study of a wide range of factors contributing to acceleration of the industrial modernization and formation of the sociocultural prerequisites for scientific and technical development in a society, which, of course, is essential for the training of future engineers, production managers, business. The article materials can be useful: to the faculties and heads of universities improving the quality of students' training of engineering and technical majors; to the students of engineering and technical majors (bachelors, specialists, masters), as well as to all those interested in the issues of engineering education and the history of scientific and technical creativity. (c) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK