Formation of Specific Competences in the Engineering Career by Educational Software - methodological landmarks applied to the “Initiation in research” discipline

Since a curricular concept oriented towards the formation of competences is very topical, the informational and educational technologies are characterized as a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, which provides tools for the elaboration of educational applications, which can eventually be implemented in technical disciplines. Since both teachers and students often see only a part of the TIC (Information and Communication Technologies) possibilities, we believe it is necessary to research and bring to the attention of the pedagogical opinion the formative valences of modern technologies, which are no longer just an element of impact, but tend to already become everyday tools with perspective in the formation of transversal competences in most technical disciplines. In the context of formative-productive education, in this paper, we are concerned with the study of engineering disciplines through traditional strategies and methods, the formation of positive attitudes of students towards the immanent values of engineering and their correlation with the techniques and strategies for the development of informational and communication skills. Thus, there is a need to use the computer as a tool for learning, taking into account the fact that it is precisely this type of study that is of great value from a functional point of view. Specifically, the aim of this research is to define the methodological configuration of the development of educational software (SE) in the modern educational system through the prism of the transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary character of informatics and TIC, on the example of the discipline Initiation in research in the University of Pitesti, through the act of implementing software products, profiling the contribution on the formation of transversal competences to the aforementioned discipline.