Authors : Maxim R. Moskalenko, Evgenij M. Dorozhkin, Maria V. Ozhiganova, Anna S. Ryzhkova and Tatyana I. Samoylova
Abstract: Relevance of the issue under consideration is due to the importance of the problem of modernization of engineering education. Socio-political subjects are play an important role in the development of a qualified engineer able to solve innovative creative tasks, since, they serve to form a systemic vision of the relationship between scientific and technological innovations and their consequences for the society to widen one’s horizon and foster erudition in various areas of expertise, first of all in the history of scientific and technological activity. The study aims at studying place and role of the socio-political branches of knowledge in modernization of the future engineers training. The leading method in studying the problem was analysis of the teaching socio-political courses to students in engineering and technical fields of study and drawing lessons from it which would reveal the major cross-disciplinary issues of concern expected to be acquired by the students. Problematic issues in teaching 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 teaching 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 history of scientific and technological activity as an important cross-disciplinary field of knowledge and teaching 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 technical 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.
Maxim R. Moskalenko, Evgenij M. Dorozhkin, Maria V. Ozhiganova, Anna S. Ryzhkova and Tatyana I. Samoylova, 2018. Teaching Socio-Political Courses in the Framework of Modernization of Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 727-733.