Korsun Y. The pedagogical conditions of future engineers’ professional self-consciousness

While studying at a higher educational institution some changes in future engineers’ self-consciousness occur, which are defined by the specific of a person’s professionalization. They are the following: the understanding of the future profession and oneself as its object is increasing and deepening, professional self-consciousness is being formed, norms, values and requirements characteristic for an engineering profession are being accepted, professionally important qualities are developing. The becoming of future engineers’ professional self-consciousness is characterized by certain pecuarities connected with the specific of future activity and preparation for it: technical subjects prevail, educational process is oriented at the development of technical thinking, professional skills are formed in educative-productive conditions. That is why there is a necessity for studying the contents and structure of future engineers’ professional self-consciousness and defining the pedagogical conditions of its purposeful development in educational environment of a higher educational institution.