Educational strategies in engineering education (on the example of Tomsk Region)

Abstract

Contemporary world trends of societal development dictate the necessity of the search for new strategies of development engineering education in Russia. The emergence of new educational megatechnologies and metamaterials sets a goal of forming the system of continuous and anticipating education the content of which is shaped on the basis of foresight of prospective demands to a human as a subject of various kinds of social activity and orientation towards technological progress. In this circumstances, the shaping of forms of thinking becomes crucial part of the of content of education, and human and his consciousness are put at the center of educational process. The primary goal of this article is to demonstrate the possibilities and reflection on the first results of new paradigm of anticipating education in two technological universities of Tomsk – Tomsk architecture and construction university and National Research Tomsk Polytechnic university. As a result of application of elements of anticipating education in construction industry, establishment of creative environment, close cooperation between technological universities of Tomsk as well as realization of concrete students project initiatives in the field of high construction technologies, concrete results in the sphere of improving competitiveness of Tomsk Region as a subject of the Russian Federation were achieved. Scientific works and innovational products that were created with contributions from Tomsk universities are in demand at both internal and external markets.

Keywords: Higher education, megatechnologies, educational strategies, engineering education, metamaterials, anticipating education,Tomsk Region.