Modern educational landscape and stem approach to education: transformation of traditional environments for training engineers

Relevance.Avalanche-like technologies that require high-quality engineering education for their development and implementation, for the sustainability of the economy, are in dire need of a comprehensive way to solve super-complex tasks and problems.The emerging problems sometimes cannot be solved by the old methods within the existing distinctions.The relevance of the study is caused by the need to search for new approaches and educational technologies in the system of engineering education.Purpose.The purpose of the work is to consider new, interconnected and mutually dependent resources that feed the idea of continuity of professional engineering and technological education.Research methods.The author's research uses such methods as: analysis of theoretical ideas about engineering economics, technological education, transdisciplinarity and continuity of education for an engineer of the future; analysis of pedagogical and research experience in the field of technological education; a local expert survey conducted in December 2021 in an online format -to identify the problems and opportunities of today's popular STEM education; content analysis of answers to open-ended questions offered to respondents working in STEM technology.Scientific novelty/theoretical and/or practical significance.Conclusions are drawn about the need to reflect on the special equipment and responsibility in relation to the technological educational space. Results.Based on the research, the article presents a view on the duality of training engineers of a new formation, on combining their theoretical training with the cultivation of the ability to practically solve production problems.It is shown that transdisciplinarity sets the most important vector for the development of technological education.Conclusions.