Interdisciplinary effects in modeling technical and technological programs of the university

Abstract

The article presents the views of employers and students about the demand for interdisciplinary knowledge in technical and technological programs of higher education. The regional survey was attended by 29 experts from among the chief and leading engineers of agricultural enterprises and 47 graduates of engineering programs in 2019 of the Stavropol Territory; 176 people from among students of 2nd–4th courses of faculties of economics, biotechnology. The survey database was processed in SPSS Statistics (version 21) Using the principal component extraction method with Varimax Rotation and Kaiser Normalization, models of engineering education were generated, and we determined the boundaries of the use of an interdisciplinary approach in the training of engineering personnel. An algorithm for mathematical modeling of engineering educational programs is proposed, taking into account the views of stakeholders and an interdisciplinary approach in the formation of graduates’ competencies.