Role of psychological factors in new technology of design engineer education

Earlier, at a conference in the Czech Republic [1], the report on the new technology training engineers was presented. The base of this technology is a number of fundamental positions of psychology, without which it is impossible to radically change the traditional forms of training engineers. The basis of a new technology is taken thesis that knowledge is a mental process. The report on the main principles that are directly related to the fundamental laws of personality thought-activity, and without which it is impossible to increase the degree of inventiveness and develop the professional skills of engineers developers. Here also there are considering the mechanisms and methods of psychological support to students in the new technology of education. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.