ELITE EDUCATION: THEORY, METHODOLOGY, PRACTICE
The article is devoted to the issue of organizing elite training for students in an engineering university, which is determined by the need to improve the quality of training for future specialists focused on creating innovative technologies and working in multidisciplinary projects. Such training meets the requirements of employers for a particular workplace. In Kazan National Technological University, for the training of well-performing students, the Tehnolider School of Continuing Professional Education has been established. Students with a high exam score on a budget basis are trained in this school according to a specially developed curriculum containing specialized training modules, modules that ensure fundamental, innovative, professional orientation and creativity of the learning process. Active learning technologies, an individual approach, design methods are applied. Students take part in conferences, competitions, grants, travel to advanced enterprises, and study their problems. They also work closely with leading scientists, representatives of industry and business. Come together to solve the identified problems. The most interested students' study under the professional retraining program “Management of Innovative and Technological Projects ”. At the final stage of training, students should present a scientific development or project to potential customers who are ready to introduce them into production.