SOME ASPECTS OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Abstract. The present article summarises some findings of educators from St. Petersburg and Jelgava in the research in competences and skills necessary for engineers and the ways how to improve the process of studies to develop them applying different new methods. Exchanging of experience among teachers and sharing ideas help a lot to make this process faster and easier; co-operation among teachers promotes also co-operation among students and it, in turn, disseminates information not only at national but also international level. Teachers and students can learn a lot from one another and it allows for omitting of some unnecessary stages in the research processes