A blueprint for the short course "Selected engineering issues"

It is proposed to supplement the existing university courses "Introduction to Engineering" with a brief overview of the author's project-based learning course "Selected engineering issues". As an example, a five-day course plan is given. The course is intended for a general understanding of the specifics, structure and problems of engineering activities, and, according to the plan, should improve the mastering of the material of the Introduction to Engineering courses. The course has the format of a collective educational and project process, which is implemented in the cognitive infrastructure of the situation center on the resources available to the organizers. Such a center can be set up outside the classroom using participants' smartphones. The cognitive environment is ensured by the presence of a support team consisting of a coordinator, a methodologist, a tablet keeper and a game technician. The functions of the support team can be performed by one specially trained teacher capable of reflexive perception of the learning situation. A constructor of course options is proposed, which includes various types of implementation processes. A variant of a metaphorical cognitive engineering map as a set of pictures and comments to them is proposed. The need for separate consideration of the setting tasks stages, working on bugs and opportunities for students to quickly access network resources and teamwork technologies is noted. The author's "4C" approach (collective, cognitive, configurative, convergent) is used in combination with a cross-technology system that provides multidisciplinarity. The concept of mutual adjustment of students' cognitive profiles and teaching formats of academic subjects (visual, audio, kinesthetic, tactile) is also used. The use of the listed author's tools ensures the originality of the proposed solutions.