On 12.05.2022 a meeting of the professional methodological association for specialty 142 “Energy Engineering” was held, bringing together representatives of six educational institutions of Ukraine: the Separate Structural Subdivision “Odesa Technical College of Odesa National University of Technology”, the Separate Structural Subdivision “Novoushytsia Professional College of the Higher Education Institution “Podillia State University”; Dnipro Professional College of Construction and Installation Technologies and Architecture”, the Separate Structural Subdivision “Kamianets-Podilskyi Professional College of the Food Industry of the National University of Food Technologies”, the Separate Structural Subdivision “Kharkiv Professional College of the Food Industry of Petro Vasylenko Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture”, and the Separate Structural Subdivision "Poltava Professional College of the National University of Food Technologies”.
24 people took part in the meeting, including Volodymyr Ivanovych Shevchenko - Head of the Scientific and Methodological Office of Engineering, Technical and Technological Education of the State Institution “Scientific and Methodological Centre of Higher and Professional Pre-Higher Education” - and methodologist Yurii Oleksandrovych Borkhalenko, Candidate of Technical Sciences, specialist of the highest category of the Scientific and Methodological Office of Engineering, Technical and Technological Education of the State Institution Scientific and Methodological Centre of Higher and Professional Pre-Higher Education of MESU.
The main subject of discussion was the organisation of work on compiling electronic textbooks for specialty 142 “Energy Engineering”. For this purpose, eight working groups were set up, which include 23 lecturers from 7 educational institutions of Ukraine. The electronic textbooks must contain: a text part, titles of sections and topics, colour illustrations, links to videos, QR codes, self-assessment questions, sources used, and may also include other methodological materials. In other words, lecturers of institutions of professional pre-higher education are in effect taking steps together to create an electronic set of methodological support for the courses in specialty 142 “Energy Engineering”.