Focusing on Russian and international requirements for engineers’ additional professional education

Based on the contradictions revealed the problems of the paper are formulated: to determine the range of requirements for modern engineers, capable of innovative breakthroughs in the development of technology and production; to teach the academic staff able to design and implement programs of additional professional education for engineers; to determine the basis for designing relevant additional programs for engineers, with the subsequent development of such programs. The article analyzes the global results in achieving the quality of engineers education (achieved by ABET, JABEE, RAEE, FEANI organizations etc.) in order to determine the requirements, which should be oriented to develop and evaluate additional education programs. The requirements can not be formulated in an invariant form, they may depend on engineer actual problems, engineers’ professional area and other factors. According to the authors’ point of view the additional programs for engineers are based on a holistic model of the design and deve-lopment of a technical object. Research data on the teachers of additional education gathered for many years contributed to arranging two groups of requirements for the competencies of teachers: technical and pedagogical. The contents of each group is developed. The results are currently used for programming the internal and external professional programs for engineers of experimental group.