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.

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Two geometric-graphic Olympiads are held in St. Petersburg: the urban Olympiad in descriptive geometry, initiated by BSTU “VOENMECH” since 1979, and the Olympiad called “Engineering Computer Graphics”, conducted by LETI and ITMO. The peculiarity of the Olympiad in descriptive geometry is its democracy. Its content and organization features are supervised by the professional community, which is united by the section “Geometry, Graphics, Design” of the House of Scientists named after M. Gorky. Competition tasks are developed not only by the organizers. Accepted and suggestions of participants. The content of the Olympiad eventually changes, contributing to its development. Thus, at the suggestion of a number of participants, a comprehensive task was introduced to know the main sections of the course, the task of composition of the task. Despite the withdrawal of the course of descriptive geometry from a number of standards, the fundamentals of this discipline are kept up to date with engineering graphics, which ensures participation in the Olympiad of 7–10 leading technical universities of the city. Olympiad in engineering computer graphics can be attributed to the problem: the level of tasks, focused exclusively on the bachelor degree; on the principles of organization (problem bank of tasks, features of the appeals process); authoritarian chairman of the jury. As a result, it was boycotted by universities, which, unlike the winners, show decent results at All-Russian Olympiads. Among the All-Russian Olympiads, the Olympiad held by MIT stands out. The organizers managed to create a complex competition, which included the ability to solve interesting applied problems on an orthogonal drawing, possession of tools for creating three-dimensional models and drawings of technical products. Given the experience of MIT, the need to create in St. Petersburg an alternative computer graphics competition that is not purely instrumental in nature, the GUT organized an Olympiad called “Total Drawing”. This competition, held under the direction of the chairman of the jury of Professor D.Voloshinov, is gaining popularity. The article discusses and analyzes the principles of organization and the content of these competitions, offers for their modernization and development.

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