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THE NATIONAL DOCTRINE OF ENGINEERINNG EDUCATION
BASIC PRINCIPLES

  1. State-of-the-art social technologies to elaborate the doctrine of engineering education.

  2. Education as part of the national development strategy of Russia

  3. Formation of requirements for future engineering education

  4. Formation of the engineering education content.

  5. Transition to new educational technologies in the engineering education

  6. Keeping the quality of engineering education at the level demanded by the society.

  7. Conclusion

6. Keeping the quality of engineering education at the level demanded by the society

The doctrine shall include an integral system aimed at keeping the quality of engineering education at the socially adequate level. The following system components should be presented (Fig. 12):

  • the new generation of national educational standards and individual universities' standards set on the basis of the former;

  • system of public and state attestation of engineering educational institutions;

  • system and technology of accreditation of vocational educational programs in different academic fields performed by both domestic and foreign public vocational associations along with national specialized agencies;

  • system of engineering specialists certification and awarding of engineering certificates of all the levels (e.g. European instructor, engineer);

  • system of social and economic stimuli aimed at professional promotion and elevation of the public status of an engineer;

  • system of continuous advanced training and postgraduate engineering education.

Fig. 12.

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