Technoinnovation as an essential element of training for engineers

The paradox of the modern labor market, when there is a shortage of engineering and technical personnel in the presence of a sufficient number of graduates of technical universities, is associated with a deformation of demand: only those specialists are in demand, which are either economically unprofitable or impossible to replace with technical devices, since so far artificial intelligence is not capable of creative creating innovations. The problem is that there are disproportionately few well-prepared schoolchildren among applicants to technical universities, and among university graduates there are many who have chosen a career outside the STEM sphere. There is no shortage of engineers, there is a shortage of highly qualified creative specialists. To train such specialists, it is necessary to increase the inflow of the most talented and creative students to technical universities, and then keep them in the STEM sphere. To test the hypothesis that a good way of attracting young people to the choice of an engineering career is to endow students with successful experience of technological invention, courses "Techno-Startup"for schoolchildren and "Technoinnovation"for students of technical universities were developed. The objectives of these courses are: to give students the experience of creating techno-innovation, to increase the motivation for a career in STEM among the most prepared students, to form critical thinking. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing
Number of issue
2
Language
English
Status
Published
Number
022102
Volume
1889
Year
2021
Organizations
  • 1 Moscow Pedagogical State University, 1/1 M. Pirogovskaya Str., RF, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
  • 2 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Str., RF, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
  • 3 National Research University Higher School of Economics, 11 Pokrovsky Boulevard, RF, Moscow, 109028, Russian Federation
Keywords
Artificial intelligence; Embedded systems; Engineering education; Personnel training; Professional aspects; Students; Critical thinking; Engineering careers; Essential elements; Technical personnel; Technical universities; Technological inventions; University graduates; Young peoples; STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
Date of creation
20.07.2021
Date of change
20.07.2021
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/74274/
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