Legal Competency Of The Future Engineer

Abstract

Problems of engineering education all over the world raise questions of the future engineer competency. And modern society requires that the engineer has legal competency, which is the main part of the personal legal culture. However, among researchers there is still no common understanding of what competency and competence are, and how they relate to legal culture. The purpose of this study is to define the concept of the engineer’s legal competency and to determine its role in forming legal culture. For this purpose we analyzed the researches on the topic of competence-based approach and engineering education, studied Russian legislation in the field of education, took into account the pedagogical experience of the authors, observed the students and interviewed them. As a result, we systematized the competences of tech fields of education (bachelor degree), taking into account their legal nature, formulated the most comprehensive understanding of legal competency in our opinion, determined the ratio of legal competency and legal culture. This allowed us to point out the shortcomings of the engineering education system in the formation of a legal culture and suggest how these gaps can be filled and give recommendations for the formation of high level legal culture as well.