The paper deals with the digital transformation of engineering education. Such transformation is justified in terms of an engineering education paradigm change. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the didactic system of engineering education, the authors specify the requirements for such important engineering education components as goal setting, content, educational technologies, assessment tools and methods in current educational environment. They provides examples of a practical digital transformation of a number of engineering curricula and syllabi by integrating blended learning based on a Small Private Online Course (SPOC). The authors share their best practices in designing e-learning taking into account the features of the learning-forgetting process, they demonstrate how to make use of the saved time for students’ practical work, how to implement gamification techniques based on such new forms as the Hackathon, Internet of things (IoT) for engineering education. They also provide examples of creating a digital educational environment with specialized software modules to visualize complex mathematical concepts as well as examples of applying principles of artificial intelligence and machine learning to shape a student’s adapted educational trajectory. They discuss how to identify student’s problems with learning material assimilation and suggest a specially developed course including propaedeutic unit for additional study.

A comparative analysis of new product development principles in microelectronics, mechanical engineering, and MEMS production is carried out. A MEMS integrated digital modeling approach is proposed based on the formation of a knowledge base, including a description of basic structural elements and basic tested process sequences for their manufacture.

The article deals with the curricula structuring through the concept of a module as an indivisible unit of educational content. The concepts of input and output terms are introduced, which form a semantic network of subject area knowledge, as well as the connectivity structure of the education modules of the educational program. The module is presented as some kind of operator for converting input terms into output ones, which allows us to present the curriculum itself as a digraph of the terms connectedness. An approach to the quantitative assessment of the teaching materials coherence in the curriculum is given. Ultimately, the curriculum itself is formally presented as a network planning model, where the learner’s potential abilities are the resources.

A methodology for curriculum optimizing based on the construction of learning-forgetting terms of educational content is proposed. In the formation of the curriculum, it is important not only to minimize the intervals between educational modules that use the same terms, but also to take into account the forgetting of the studied educational material. The article offers a generalized representation of the optimization methodology of the digital model of the educational program based on modeling the learning-forgetting function of the terms throughout the educational program, which poses the task of optimizing the curriculum in a multicriteria setting.