Advanced tendencies and practically oriented approach to training specialists in applied physics

The existing system of training specialists in the field of applied physics in domestic universities doesn’t allow to fully meet the needs of employers. One of the main drawbacks of the educational process in higher education institution in training future engineers is insufficient use of practice-oriented educational technologies, well-organized internships and independent work of students, real design. It does not give students an opportunity to demonstrate the competences they have acquired while studying individual disciplines of the educational program. According to experts, one of the ways to improve the quality of specialists’ training, capable of eliminating this contradiction to a certain extent, is the introduction and wider spread of practice-oriented educational technologies in engineering universities. The objective of the applied physics course is to develop skills in applying the provisions of fundamental physics to competent scientific analysis of situations which an engineer has to deal with when creating new equipment and new technologies, as well as to develop students’ natural-science worldview and familiarize them with the history of physics development and its main discoveries. As a result of mastering the course of applied physics the student should learn the basic physical phenomena and basic laws of physics; limits of their applicability, application of laws in the most important practical applications; become familiar with the basic physical quantities, know their definition, meaning, methods and units of their measurement; imagine fundamental physical experiments and their role in the development of science; know the purpose and operating principles of the most important physical instruments.