TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT IN THE CURRICULA OF RUSSIAN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITIES
Deciding the problem of improving the quality of education under the conditions of modern Russian technical high schools, special attention should be paid to the existing engineering professional criteria implemented for engineering study programmes and professionals worldwide, as well as to the State Educational Standard Requirements in the Russian Federation, so that to enable technical university graduates to adapt to the international requirements and to meet challenges of the international academic and professional workplaces. Graduates of technical universities should be able to become staff members of organizations working together as a system, where specialization matters, but where the ability to communicate across professional and national “discourses” is ever more important to professionals of all types. The importance of good communication skills has been emphasized in survey by survey; they show that technical skills can be unnoticed or not used if engineers cannot convince their peers, co-workers, superiors, or clients. Now it is time for Russian universities to reconsider the correlation of disciplines in favour of programmes and courses ensuring the development of future engineers’ intercultural competence and technical communication skills.
Keywords: professional and technical communication, engineering education, communication competence
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