INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE ENGINEERS

The article reveals the interconnection of economic, scientific and technical factors in engineering training. The article explores that global enhanced interdisciplinarity has been discussed in the engineering education context from the early 21st century. It has been found out that there is no disagreement about its importance for the engineers, the key question has been how to implement theory into practice both in the curriculum and in the actual learning enhancement phase. Interdisciplinarity in the engineering education is considered as a basis for critically new competitive engineering solutions. The indicators proving the availability of interdisciplinary management system at a higher educational institution are outlined. The necessity of using interdisciplinary educational technologies in the process of training engineers has been substantiated in the article. The decisive significant feature of interdisciplinarity in education under the condi-tion of sharp growth in information activity and the increased role of intellectual property items in modern economy are demonstrated. Interdisciplinarity is based on the network relations among the studied disciplines. Goal, content, and trends in interdisciplinarity are presented in the system of engineering training. It has been claimed that interdisciplinarity, which envisages systemic integration of acquired knowledge into the individual’s worldview, enables to transform abstract information into applicable skills and competencies. Interdisciplinary tasks of engineering education boost intensive international collaboration and intercultural cooperation. It is concluded that the interdisciplinarity of the educational process should be focused on the development of human consciousness and the level of moral, socio-economic, professional competencies. It is shown that the transition to interdisciplinary education is a problem of values, rational will and choice.