Individual peculiarities of engineering students attending minor degree programs - Research on psychology and education

摘要

Professional activity of a contemporary global engineer requires constant improvement of engineering training. One of the ways to make the educational system more flexible and correspondent to the real labor market environment in Russia is the so-called "Additional professional education" (minor courses). At the Kazan National Research Technological University there is an option for the top students to acquire an additional degree in Education, Management, Law, Psychology, Foreign Languages, etc. at the Faculty of Additional Education (FAE). Our reseach showed that students who attend the FAE courses have some psychological peculiarities. The study was aimed at creating a psychological profile of the minor degree students majoring in engineering. A survey was given to the students and to the faculty who studied the following minors: "Corporate management", "Education", "Professional translation", and "Legal fundamentals for business processes". The sample group consisted of 50 minor degree students (21 male and 29 female) aged 19-22. The survey results allowed concluding that minor degree gives more opportunities for individualization.