The future of engineering in Russia
The system of engineering education should provide formation and establish conditions for evolutional new generation nurture of highly educated professionals in the engineering sphere, who are able to support stable dynamic economics development, and innovation development of various practical work spheres on the basis of high-end technologies; specialists for whom self-development and professional skill, elaboration of individual activity style are priority guidelines during the whole life. Engineers of the new generation should be professionally and socially protected by the education quality from the real risk of conversion of a person into plug-in technologies material. There are some factors determining the development of engineering education in the future:
- analysis of fundamental reformist improvements in scientific, technical, and socio-economic spheres on the threshold of the 21st century (stable development, mankind survival imperative, technological development, society of education formation, development of practically-oriented complex multidisciplinary sciences, society informatization and mediatization etc.);
- forecast of conceptual and structural manufacture alterations; country's science and culture, as well as people's educational needs;
- investigation of the country's multiform economics establishment processes and orientations of regional economics;
- systemic objectives and values concept of engineering of tomorrow;
- taking into account the emerging professional education philosophy;
- state and dynamics study of engineering labor-market and intellectual produce on the regional, interregional, national and international levels;
- taking into account the role of professional engineers’ personal organization in formation of the engineering type of thinking, his own choice of integration into engineering culture, his aim at self-development and professional creative work.
1. Describe the ways of finding mechanical engineering jobs
2. What are the factors determining the development of engineering in the future?
3. How do you see the future of engineering?
3. Would it be more difficult or not to become an engineer in the future?
4. What would be the goals and responsibilities for a new generation engineer?
5. What changes do you think should be introduced nowadays to make engineering a more successful sphere in the future?
1) Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English
Специализация; привлекательность зарплаты; ярмарка вакансий; практика; бесценный опыт; окончание учебного заведения; высококачественные технологии; превращение; на пороге 21 века; стабильное развитие; междисциплинарные связи между науками; рынок труда; межрегиональный уровень; принимать во внимание; саморазвитие.
2)* Insert the missing prepositions if necessary
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2. His spiritual advisers were none too happy with his reliance ............... pagan practices.
3. He just had to hope he'd get away with it and that nobody would find …………… .
4. Game theory provides …………… the appropriate vehicle of study.
5. A 24-hour ceasefire allowed the two armies …… reach …… solution to the conflict.
6. The combination of all these factors led …………… the tragedy on pad 34.
7. The water company appealed …………… everyone to reduce the amount of water used.
8. He thought he was …………… the threshold of some wonderful enlightenment.