Upgrading Engineering Education for the Chemical Industry of Russia

The future of the domestic chemical industry depends on quality staffing. This article analyzes and attempts to understand the problem of modernizing the chemical industry in the Republic of Tatarstan as the basis of a new paradigm of the engineering education system. The modernization of the chemical industry is the cumulative result of the global interdependence between knowledge, technology, science and education. The essence of the problems of learning and re-training of technical personnel associated with the transition of the chemical industry to an innovative development model is discussed and the ways to overcome them are shown. The article suggests ways to improve the educational programs in Russian technological universities thru active learning approaches, thru dual learning with time in industry as well as the university, thru project-oriented learning, and immersive learning and finally thru stimulating the formation of an environmental competitiveness cluster.