The Issues of Development of a Creative Professional

Abstract

The article covers the issues of engineering education. The authors take as a premise that the most important quality of an engineer is his/her creativity, therefore the goal of engineering education is to form and develop students’ creativity. This article evaluates the opportunity of developing the creative constituent of engineers’ skills. The authors draw the conclusion about the lack of disciplines that would favor the development of creativity. They focus on the over-disciplinary function of the Philosophical and Methodological Problems of Science and Engineering discipline; the function allows to regard the history and methodology of science as a foundation for development of creative skills that ensure the innovative activity of future engineers.