Current Trends Affecting the Formation of the Pedagogical System of Training of an Engineer-Manager for High-Tech Industry in Terms of Polyvalent Reformation of Education

Background/Objectives: To determine needs of knowledge-intensive industries of Naberezhnye Chelny and Republic of Tatarstan in qualified personnel and development of specialist model, which provides breadth of expertise in related professional fields Methods/Statistical Analysis: Survey, expert survey, analysis of secondary information. We conducted expert interviews with specialists of recruitment agencies of the Republic of Tatarstan and heads of large enterprises of the region, questioning graduates in the period from 2010 to 2014. The sample of the study amounted to 639 graduates and 45 experts. During the processing of empirical data statistical methods, system analysis, methods of ranking, classification, and grouping were used. Findings: The results of the survey indicate a lack of professional training of specialists for science-intensive industries. In addition, the experts marked the following issue: qualified engineers are trained professionals in the field of design and technological developments, but do not have the skills of a Manager, and, on the contrary, professional managers there is no engineering training, no knowledge of technological processes. Features and development trends of high-tech industry define new requirements to training of specialists for this sphere. The Manager prepared for the high-tech industry, is designed to combine engineering training with knowledge in the field of Economics, organization and production management in a market environment. The proposed model of a specialist is the combination of personal characteristics, professional qualities of an engineer-Manager, types of his professional activities and facilities development in the process of professional training. In the system of higher professional education must be the training of interdisciplinary profile that has the skills of a researcher, which owns adjacent fields of knowledge and highly innovative technical, managerial culture. Application/Improvements: The results can be taken into account in the development of programs for prediction of professional activity Manager and also used for professional selection, counseling, training of leaders.