Main trends in the application of information technologies in professional training of specialists

The recent development of information technology has made mt enormous impact on society as a whole, and in particular on the process of the formation of professional engineers. Universities am presently grappling with the problem how to adjust their curricula to cope with the influx of information technology and what curricular content should be converted to be available through the electronic means. The paper endeavours to address and discuss the most important bends in the development at higher and secondary professional education is the process of modernisation and adaptation of professional training on the basis of applying new information technologies in the education process.