The paper addresses the advanced topics of engineering education, including digitalization, which were discussed at the 21st International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL) and 47th IGIP International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) held on the Kos Island, Greece in September, 2018. The conference set out a wide range of problems relating to a new interactive educational technology, to developing online-, digital, and e-learning, to the visualization and gamification of education, to developing in engineers academic and applied competences, to implementing new education environments, etc. The Russian researchers’ contribution to the development of engineering pedagogy was emphasized, including improving training of engineering university professors and holding the SYNERGY Engineering Education Research and Practice Network Conference in the leading technical universities of Russia.

This article discusses the topical issues of engineering education, which have become the discussion point at the international network scientific and practical conference titled “Synergy” that has been held since 2016. The organizational basis of the conference is provided by the leading technical universities in Russia under the support of the international societies for engineering education and the largest Russian energy company Gazprom. The article outlines the broad issues of the conference, related to interdisciplinarity, new standards and technologies for engineering education, digital educational environment and online technologies, interaction between engineering education and high-tech business and industry, the models of digital competencies and mechanisms to independently certify them, training of highly qualified personnel, professional education within the school-university-enterprise system, and many other relevant aspects of contemporary engineering education.

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