METHOD OF TEACHING STUDENTS TO INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES IN THE OLYMPIAD ENVIRONMENT

Innovative engineering activity (IEA), as a creative productive activity, is the basis for ensuring the technological progress of the society, and innovative training is one of the priority tasks of universities. The author proposes solving this problem by forming creative, activity, motivational, psychological, and other components of competence in innovative engineering (CIEA) when studying in the olympiad environment. The study aims at the improvement of the efficiency of training students for innovative engineering activity. The author updated the idea of the educational environment prevailing in pedagogical practice and formulated the concept of the innovation-oriented olympiad educational environment (OEE) as the system of interacting subjects and objects of educational activity in the conditions of the olympiad movement. The author developed the OEE model, which includes motivational-targeted, structural, organizational, and content-related, process-technological, and reflective-evaluative components. A single olympiad cycle, the object of which is an olympiad task, acts as a substrate of this model. To implement a cycle in the OOS, the author developed a sub-model of the IEA training methodology within one such cycle. It includes all of the listed components of the OEE model, relies on their content, uses its scientific and methodological approaches to learning, methods, and didactic principles; is implemented through 10 intra-stage and 5 inter-stage steps. The paper presents the main learning outcomes in the described environment confirming its high efficiency.