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Continuous digital design and technology training for future engineers in the oil and gas chemical complex // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2026. Issue 2 (244). P. 139-148

The target guidelines of the modern petrochemical complex are technological modernization caused by the need to introduce new technologies, improve existing technological processes, and digitalization of all stages of the production chain. The study of the prospects and dynamics of technological and digital transformation of enterprises of the petrochemical complex indicates an increase in innovative design and technological activity. In this regard, there is a demand for training qualified engineering personnel capable of design activities using digital technologies. Digital design and technological competence of process engineers is defined as the ability to optimally solve technical and technological problems using digital resources at all stages of innovative technological design: research, design and calculation, modeling and technological, managerial and technological. The analysis of the content of engineering activities on the design of improved or fundamentally new chemical-technological processes, performed using digital resources, made it possible to establish the composition of digital design and technological competence. It is determined by a set of competencies: the ability to digital geometric modeling of units and parts of devices; ability to digitally model and calculate equipment for chemical-engineering production; ability to digitally model and design real chemical-engineering processes; proficiency in digital control methods for real chemical-engineering processes. The increasingly complex content of competencies determines the need for their step-by-step formation in the process of continuous digital design and technological training of future engineers of the oil and gas chemical complex. The developed training model characterizes the structure, content, conditions for organizing the educational process for the formation of digital design and technological competence of future engineers. In accordance with the model, the formation of digital design and technological competence of future engineers is carried out in four stages. To assess the formation of digital design and technological competence, the results of the final qualification work (project) and passing the exam on computer simulators are used. A pedagogical experiment was conducted to introduce the model into the educational process of training future engineers of the oil and gas chemical complex at the Kazan National Research Technological University. Its results demonstrated the effectiveness of continuous digital design and technological training of future engineers of the oil and gas chemical complex for design activities in the digital environment.

Keywords: engineer, continuous training, digital design and technology competence, modeling, design, digital resources