A Model for Development of Professional Competence in Students of Technical Institutes of Higher Learning

Contemporary engineering education is based on the integrating role of individual expert which is why the present day fundamental goal of higher professional education is to achieve a rounded personality development and ensure continual enhancement of their professional competence (PC). The paper presents a theoretically formulated model for development and growth of PC in students of technical universities that is consistent with the goals and tasks of the process under research. It also presents a description of the model's components which are organized in five separate blocks: purpose, functional, contents, organizational, and diagnostic-assessment. The paper recommends examples for interdisciplinary integration for different subjects (between subjects from humanitarian sciences and technical sciences, interdisciplinary laboratory exercises by using ICT, seminary exercises in the subjects "Physics", "Mathematics" and special learning disciplines etc).