QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF ENGINEERING EDUCATORS IN RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The engineering educators of any level inRussian Universities traditionally had a privilege to bewaived from their teaching responsibilities once in five yearsfor one academic semester (four months) without any loss intheir salaries. Instead, they had to attend some specialcourses of Quality Improvement in another University attheir choice to have a chance to fill in their intellectual gapsin modern science. Because of the present crisis in economythis opportunity is now being drastically reduced. It makesimpossible the basic advantages of the whole enterprise suchas 1) having experience exchange between educators ofvarious Universities, 2) up-to-date information of latestscience achievements, 3) new approach to lecture publicdemonstrations and 4) analysis of errors of your colleagues.The best way to save money is in education of highprofessional engineers.

Index Terms - Engineering Education, Educator’s qualityimprovement, Engineering pedagogics