ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
The article investigates the economic aspects of the functioning and development of engineering education in Russia. The relevance of this issue is determined by the active innovative development of our society, in accordance with global trends, as well as the requirements for graduates of engineering specialties. Innovative development is impossible without modernization of engineering education as one of the main components of innovation processes. All this has a significant impact on the economic development of the country and its position on the world market. In this regard, the purpose of this research is to study functioning conditions of engineering education in Russia. The analysis has shown the relevance of a comprehensive study of the engineering education development, which is confirmed by the geography of scientific publications. In the course of the study, the authors identified the following development areas of engineering education in Russia: using the knowledge and experience of the old school personnel to update educational programs, expanding the area of interests of engineering education in the country, focusing on retaining scientific and practical personnel in the country and, as a result, forming a personnel reserve, expanding student exchange programs and using existing laboratories and centers to exchange experience and use it in practical tasks to improve the quality of the educational process.
Keywords: engineering education, economic conditions of functioning, economic effect, innovative development.
Highlights:
♦ the issues of functioning and development of engineering education remain relevant for the world community for a long time;
♦ the main factors influencing the functioning of engineering education in Russia are the state policy in the field of priority areas of development, the financing of education, the outflow of young highly qualified personnel from the country and limited access to foreign technologies;
♦ at the same time, Russia has a fairly strong staff of the "old school", there are its own laboratories and research centers at universities, as well as an exchange of students at the international level.
Valentina V. Mantulenko, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Management; Daria V. Aleshkova, specialist in UMR of the Department for the Support of Pubic Activity. - Samara State University of Economics