Computer means of graphic disciplines’ training courses support

The article shows that Russian higher education in part of graphic disciplines has been using technologies presently capable to provide necessary competencies (knowledge) since the Несколько лет назад всех людей, которым не без- различно отечественное образование, потрясли две цитаты из речей руководителя Министерства обра- зования. В одной говорилось о том, что ошибкой отечественного образования являлось стремление воспитать человека-творца, а надо бы – квалифици- рованного потребителя. Во второй – о том, что выс- шая математика убивает креативность. К счастью, в документах, посвященных модерни- зации отечественного образования в настоящее время, как среднего, так и высшего, признается, в частности, необходимость решения важной задачи – обеспечить выработку устойчивой рефлексии обучаемых через создание условий для формирования опыта самосто- ятельного решения познавательных, коммуникатив- ных, организационных, нравственных и иных проблем. Многие специалисты считают, что именно ком- петентностная модель способна привести в соответ- ствие профессиональное образование с потребно- стями рынка, нуждающегося в компетентном и кре- ативном работнике. К одной из самых эффективных технологий об- учения относят проектное обучение, или метод про- ектов. Наш опыт преподавания инженерной графи- ки убеждает в том, что ничего принципиально но- вого здесь нет. Уже довольно много лет назад учебный процесс в отечественной высшей школе (мы говорим о преподавании инженерной графики) в ряде техни- ческих вузов отвечал большинству тех требований, которые предъявляются в настоящее время. В Военмехе, например, по согласованию с факультетами подби- ралась соответствующая элементная база (образцы техники и чертежная документация), а на занятиях делался акцент на проектно-конструкторские осо- бенности изделий, элементы творчества. end of the past century. This article describes tasks with elements of constructing built on the element bases of corresponding faculties that assisted in search and education of people with creative potential. The author notes difficulties of preservation and development of design and engineering approach to training due to the transition to two-level training and sharp reduction in class hours. Decline in students’ basic training is stated, its causes are analyzed. It is noted that in the current situation (weak basic training, per capita funding, and low level of motivation) university teachers face the responsibility to develop student´s discipline of mind, discipline of character, discipline of work, which used to be Soviet schoolteachers’ task. It is shown that the elements of project-based learning should be introduced at the earliest stage of engineering drawing training. Examples of tasks are provided. The article proposes a number of organizational and methodological measures, which, according to the authors, will help save the engineering design approach to learning. The role of computing and software as a vital tool is displayed in the courses of: Engineering Graphics; Basics of computer-aided design; Introduction to CAD. Historical development of this tool is followed to date. The conclusion about the need to build the educational process as a system of parallel projects going through the entire training period is made.

Design and Engineering Training in Engineering Graphics: Past, Present, Future

Абросимов¹,

Abrosimov²,

Тихонов-Бугров³

et al. 2015

Remote Love or Graphical Courses in Pandemic Conditions

Tikhonov-Bugrov

Abrosimov

2020

In this paper it is noted that a characteristic and most important feature of domestic education is close interaction of teacher and student, mentoring, the dominant formula: first love, and then teach. It is feared that the teacher-student personal interaction is lost with the introduction of a graduated training system, dominance of all kinds of testing, and development of distance education technologies. At the same time it is noted, that distance education technologies are good for distance learning and self-training, however, they do not contribute to the training of basic, elite specialists. The noted factors give no way to pay due attention to the training of talented students-intellectuals. They are nervous about the popular belief that vast arrays of high intelligence are merely useless for today's society and economy. The results of work in the distance learning conditions at the BSTU "VOENMEKH" chair for graphic training of future specialists in the defense industry’s area are analyzed in this paper. It contains also information on adjustments for the educational process, communication features, and evaluation criteria. The conclusion has been drawn that significant difficulties and contingent losses are associated with the loss of possibility for close teacher-student personal interaction that has not allowed the teacher to show proper love for the student. The assumption that the most of students are unbred to effective independent work was confirmed. The best adapted to this situation were those former scholars who were taught in an environment that allows them to receive electives of engineering profile or special courses. The percentage of students who has not started the distance education or has not coped with it is about 35%, which significantly exceeds the losses of previous years for the same period. At the same time it is noted that past losses were actually determined from the very beginning of training. The current losses have an onset coinciding with the pandemic onset. These data confirm doubts about students' commitment to distance learning.

Geometric Education’s Problems Displaying in the “Geometry and Graphics” Journal

Sal'kov¹

2020

The “Geometry and Graphics” journal is celebrating its eight-year birthday in 2020. It was set up in 2012. From the moment of its set up until 2016, it was the first period of the journal's life, when pedagogical papers were published three times more than the geometrical ones. In 2016 the journal was put in the list of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles in specialties 05.01.01 and 13.08.00. It was the second period in the journal's life. The number of scientific and pedagogical papers have become approximately equal, which indicates a more careful selection of papers for publication in the journal, as well as introduction the apparatus for independent peer review sorting out papers not falling outside the level of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles’ journal. In 2018 the specialty 13.08.00 was removed, only Engineering Geometry and Computer Graphics remained – the third period in the journal's life began, which was characterized by a sharp fall in the number of pedagogical papers, and little wonder. This trend has been demonstrated in the present paper. As a result, if in the first period pedagogical papers in the journal were equal to 3/4 of papers’ total number, in the third period pedagogical papers number had become only 1/4, that is, had decreased by 3 times. From 2019 (No. 4) Pedagogy has returned to the journal – the fourth period has started. Now in the journal there were two specialties again. When the pedagogical direction was again included in the list, the situation related to publication of pedagogical papers in the journal improved, and on the example of three recently published journal numbers, we can say that they began to publish in the journal technical and pedagogical papers in equal measure. This paper aims to show to the reader the scope of pedagogical issues in papers published in the journal and related to geometric education.