2. AIMS AND
TASKS OF THE ASSOCIATION
2.1. The Association has the following aims:
Development and improvement of technical education and engineering
profession in all their varieties involving educational, scientific and technological
aspects that include teaching, consulting, research, development of engineering projects,
technology transfers, providing a wide range of educational services, establishing ties
with community, corporate and scientific spheres and integrating into international
science and education
building conditions for full realization of creative potential of the
Association members, with a view to advancement of science and technology;
representation of lawful interests and protection of professional,
civil, social, intellectual and other rights of the Association members;
development of international ties and contacts in the field of
engineering education, facilitating integration of Russian scientists, teachers of
technical education higher institutions, and specialists with engineering degrees into the
world's academic and educational space.
2.2. The Association seeks to solve the following tasks:
building a system of and conditions for training and maturing of a
new generation of highly-educated professionals in the engineering job capable of
maintaining a stable dynamic development of economy and achieving break-through progress
in practical fields;
elaboration and continuous updating of the doctrine of technical
education, participation in development of educational standards;
works towards concentration of the professional potential of
Russia and the Association members on the break-through technologies and directions that
lead Russia out of the social and economic crisis and create conditions for prosperous
life of its people;
revival and development of engineering schools of Russia, full use of
their potential for building the strategy of sustainable development for the country;
endorsing activities toward joining the efforts of the
government, educational institutions, organizations, firms and general public in giving
primary concern to development of technical education on the basis of progressive
pedagogical thinking, use of "high" educational technologies, combining the best
national traditions and international experience in training engineers;
ordering independent public and academic assessment of state and
individual programs for development and improvement of the engineering education in
Russia, research programs, projects, inventions and discoveries;
analysis of problems in professional education, assistance in
creating new forms of education (distant education, "virtual university",
continuous education etc.);
assisting the development of institutions for technical education and
establishing a modern material foundation for engineering education;
improvement of the content of technical education, attaining its
fundamentalization, humanization and professionalization, forming a high-level
informational culture of the technical education system, targeting the language training
to a fluent use of foreign language as a tool of intercultural communication, increasing
the academic mobility of students;
improvement of the system of upgrading the qualification and re-training
of the technical education institutions faculty and engineering corps of the country;
establishing and expanding ties and cooperation with associations,
foundations and foreign universities and organizations for exchange of specialists,
interns, graduate and undergraduate students, visits of international students to study in
Russia as well as exchange of ideas and experience on developing the higher education and
engineering profession;
creation of a system for support of the socially prestigious status
of technical education and engineering profession;
monitoring and analysis of international, regional, national and
sub-national markets for intellectual labor and production;
facilitating upgrading of qualification of the Association members,
expanding their professional knowledge, organizing upgrading courses on innovations in
technical education;
organization of academic and methodological seminars and workshops,
conferences, expositions, brain-storm sessions, readings on problems of technical
education;
holding conventions for deans, department chairs, vice-rectors of
educational institutions - members of the Association;
holding of competitions and exhibitions of engineering
ideas and projects in various nominations with a view to discovering and support of most
promising ideas, technologies and projects, participation on international exhibitions for
technical education programs, organization of lotteries to promote development of higher
technical education;
instituting awards, scholarships and other honors for best academic
works and effective technologies in the field of the Association's interests;
- participation, in accordance with the Russian legislation, in licensing and
accreditation of educational institutions, certification of the Russian engineering corps;
organization and coordination, in accordance with the Russian
legislation, of export/import of educational services of the Association members, work on
development and implementation of engineering study programs in the English language for
foreign students, assistance in founding foreign branches and offices for the Association
members;
foundation of printed organs, participating in working out the
concept and actual publishing of the magazine "Engineering Education in Russia",
publishing collective works, monographs, encyclopaedias and popular editions, periodic
analytical reviews and information digests on problems of technical education;
creating issue groups and discussion clubs, scientific and
educational centers in different geographical regions, ad hoc working groups,
providing reference and consultative services, collecting of data
bases (in Russian and English) on topics of interest for the Association;
- representation of the Association in the global informational space (setting up
Web servers of International Virtual Club for Issues of Technical Education,
producing an electronic bulletin of the Association etc.).
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