CURRENT STATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF GEOMETRY-GRAPHICS CULTURE AND COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PROFESSIONALS

The article considers the current state of development of geometry-graphics culture and competence of future professionals taking into account the rapid development of information technologies which led to the transformation of content of engineering effort and the change of requirement for the future engineers training and assessment of their professional qualities, i.e. change of the competence of future professionals. The authors define the integral notion “graphics culture” which includes modern knowledge and skills in the field of engineering and computer graphics and the ability for creative activity as the implementation of graphics culture principle is impossible without knowing of visual graphical language of professional communication which is the international language of professional technical communication of engineers, understandable without verbal support. The authors analyze the classical geometry-graphics training in technical colleges which are supported by two disciplines – perspective geometry and engineering graphics and modern graphics training including 3D modeling which improves the performance and quality of modeling, its variability and visualization. The article includes the conclusion that the graphics education is the necessary component of content of general higher education and only being represented in the following conjunction: scientific discipline – perspective geometry and its modeling ideology and practical discipline – engineering graphics as graphical documenting supported by computer technologies, can provide the students for acquiring of competences not only in the sphere of engineering graphics but also in general-engineering and special disciplines up to the practical use at the production site, and, consequently, will improve their graphics culture which is determined by the high degree of personal development.