Global trends in higher education and thier impact on engineering training in Russia

The study provides the opportunity to see the peculiarities and contradictions in the current state of the system of higher engineering education as a sub-system and integrative part of Russian and global system of higher professional education. It reveals and classifies the challenges that may be considered and hopefully solved on various levels: international, federal, institutional, and on the micro-level (specific discipline, educational technology or even a separate lesson). On the university level understanding of the mentioned trends will help administration and faculty in their search for the new innovative educational models and in solving their everyday problems. The goal of the research is to reveal specific characters of higher engineering education development in terms of global and domestic trends in the higher professional education.