| Types Of problems |
Typical problems connected with |
| Core problems |
Preparation of foreign students for work as an engineer in Russia |
| Organization of interconnection of the course study, self-study, study of a subject |
| Interdisciplinary character of the education content |
| Coherent speech development on the basis of studying and consideration of cognitive interests and professional needs of foreign students - prospective engineers |
| Nodular problems |
Implementation of social and educational functions of engineering at the university: acmeological, diagnostic, compensatory, innovative, prognostic, specialized, consulting, consultative |
| Multi-functionality, dynamism, forward-looking developmental character of foreign students in relation to objects and subjects of their future professional activity – plants, project and research centers, colleagues |
| Openness of the professional retraining system, its end-term orientation connected with the solution of burning professional issues, flexibility being identified by the possibility of consideration of objective needs of prospective engineers in their professional and personal development |
| Resulting problems |
Correlation of professional retraining with the three objects (subjects): a personality, educational process (educational programs), organizational structure of additional education |
| Acquisition of new knowledge, language skills, competencies necessary for executing tasks (educational tasks) which are different from those for completion of which a student was admitted to the university |
| Enabling students to acquire a new professional qualification (depending on the compliance of the basic education with the course of retraining) |
| Autonomous problems |
Availability of forward-looking preparation of foreign students according to the new prospective (innovative) trends of education which is to become the basis for practical activity by the new profile – an engineer |
| Function of the thesis: it is to become an integral part of educational process and from the means of control and assessment of learning activity and turn into a means of cognitive activity stimulation and development of research ability of foreign students, and a means of real involvement into the process of knowledge and skills acquisition and further practical implementation at their professional activities |
| Absence of professional retraining standard, curricula, transitional modules, educational programs, online courses necessary for professional retraining of foreign students for work as an engineer |
