Changes in Engineering Education in the Transition to a Digital Society

Abstract

© 2020 IEEE. The main trend at now is intellectualization and digitalization in all activity areas. First of all, in the transition to the Industry 4.0 concept, this relates to the creation of management systems, including in education. This is actual for engineering education, including the learning of specialists in the control and computer systems sphere. To create the information and communication infrastructure to digital economy, we need specialists who are able to create, develop and implement projects in the information and communication technologies. Requirements for a modern engineer imply his social responsibility, solicitous attitude to ecosystems and adherence to the sustainable development principles. The accelerating digitalization of modern society is increasing the demand for engineers with creative thinking, which leads to the new education philosophy development-Smart Education. The article discusses the requirements for the modern education system, the main of which is to motivate the student so that he learns to formulate the problem in a professional language and solve it using new intelligent technologies. A feature of the proposed method is the use in the educational system to solve real problems of such a digital environment, which is being introduced in the industry.