The qualifying scientific work presents previously unexplored issues on the formation of information competence of future engineers of higher military educational institutions, in particular, for the first time theoretically substantiated and experimentally tested a set of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of information competence of future engineers: construction of educational material based on the integration of audio, text, graphics and video information; application of algorithmic constructs that activate independent educational and cognitive activity; strengthening information and professional training of future engineers through the inclusion in the educational process of professionally oriented tasks of the special course «Technology of formation of information competence of engineers».
Based on competency, contextual, personal-activity and information approaches, a structural-functional model of step-by-step formation of information competence of future engineers is designed and implemented in the educational process of higher military educational institutions, its structure and mutually agreed components (target, technological and evaluation units) are described; the structure of formation of information competence of future engineers as a set of interconnected components is substantiated: motivational-value, operational-activity, cognitive-practical and evaluative-reflexive, which complements the theory of engineering and technical education; criteria, indicators and levels (high, average, low) of formation of information competence of future engineers are defined. The structure and content of the concept of «information competence of the future engineer» as a professionally significant quality of personality, which is defined as the result of mastering theoretical knowledge about methods and means of information processing, is specified and theoretically substantiated; acquisition of skills and practical abilities to use hardware and software; formation of motivation and psychological readiness to use existing and master new means of information and communication technologies.
The practical significance of the obtained results of the presented research consists in the development and introduction into the educational process of a special course «Technology of formation of information competence of an engineer» (144 hours) for students majoring in «Electromechanical automation systems and electric drive»; containing: curriculum, lecture course, laboratory workshop, test tasks focused on independent, active and cognitive activities of future engineers of higher military educational institutions; methods of diagnosing the level of formation of information competence of future engineers; a set of research, creative, game, information and practice-oriented projects, differentiated and individualized in complexity through the use of design technologies using application packages due to interdisciplinary links.
The performed research gives grounds to assert the disclosure on the basis of the obtained scientific material of the main aspects of the problem of formation of information competence of future engineers of higher military educational institutions, as well as outlining a number of new problems in the process of research and experimental work. It is noted that further development of teaching methods based on the use of 3D-4D-technologies aimed at increasing the level of formation of information competence in the future; and the materials of the dissertation research can be used in the process of training engineers of higher military educational institutions in order to improve the level of formation of information competence in the study of both disciplines of the information cycle and professionally oriented. The presented scientific work does not cover all aspects of the problem of formation of information competence. Promising areas for further research may be ways to increase the effectiveness of information competence by creating an acmeological environment using cloud-based technologies in the study of information cycle disciplines in higher military educational institutions.
