Organization of technical students’ project activity in department scientific circles

The scientific circle of the technical university department is the simplest, human conformable and highly efficient form of additional professional education. Great relevance and demand of social pragmatization of technical students’ project activity in department scientific circles is due to the fact that cumulatively it creates favorable conditions that enable students to acquire knowledge and skills when performing R&D, activates and stimulates creative thinking, and enhances the student’s creative abilities. Organizing students’ project activity, we must put special emphasis on the choice of the subject to be investigated and the content of the creative project. The general methodological approach requires that the subject of the project be in line with the department scientific school. Individual approach means that the form of the project is chosen by the student independently and approved by his/her scientific supervisor. Freedom to choose both the subject and the content of the project enables the individual to acquire some additional super subject competence that he/she considers vital for future professional career. The prime task of organizing students’ project activity in the framework of scientific coterie is to let them independently, under supervision of academic staff, study and acquire heuristic and algorithmic methods and techniques required to search for ideas of progressive and science-intense design and technological solutions of the technical objects under development. The students are to study independently existing evaluation criteria and diagnostic tools to monitor and measure test validity of the research for further use of the obtained results in their professional project activity.