EXPERIENCE IN ORGANIZING PRACTICAL TRAINING OF MECHATRONICS TECHNICIANS: FROM PRACTICAL CLASSES TO ON-THE-JOB TRAININ

Abstract

Ensuring the necessary conditions for training mechatronics technicians within  the system of secondary vocational education is a crucial element in shaping a quality educational process. The existing conditions today require updates, the application of modern approaches, and relevant solutions in the preparation of specialists, including mechatronics technicians. Modern and progressive methodological materials for the practical training of mechatronics technicians should include relevant forms, methods and means of teaching, this contributes to the development of the educational process itself, as well as promotes the development of certain abilities of students: creativity, critical thinking, thought processes, educational motivation, etc. Mechatronics engineer is a specialist who develops, operates and maintains mechatronic systems that combine precision mechanics with electronic, pneumatic, electrical and computer components. The professional activities of these specialists are related to the most advanced high-tech industries, intelligent equipment management, which requires a high level of professional competence. The discipline “Fundamentals of Automatic Control” is a general professional discipline necessary for training mechatronics technicians in the field of operation and maintenance of electrical and electromechanical equipment. The article discusses the types of practical tasks in this discipline, and provides examples of methodological materials. Practical training in  the sphere of modeling real production  conditions provides work in laboratories of electronic and computer engineering, electrical machines, pneumatics and hydraulics, laboratory of mechatronics (production automation), mobile  robotics, programmable logic controllers. The authors analyzed the results of the demonstration exam for the last years of training mechatronics technicians.