I.A. Pfanenshtil
M.P. Yatsenko
I.G. Borisenko
Siberian Federal University
Krasnoyarsk
Keywords: information society, information culture, problems of engineering education
The paper analyzes the major challenges faced by teachers and students in technical colleges. In particular, a significant set of problems is conditioned by discarding the best traditions of Soviet education. In addition, the authors offer concrete solutions to the problems of engineering education, based on the latest information technologies. Of fundamental importance is the authors’ research, which gives an idea about the origins of the main difficulties in the era of global information technologies. The authors not only summarize the diverse teaching experience, but also offer concrete ways out of the crisis, which would help the domestic engineering education to become competitive.