The humanitarian environment of technical university as a factor of the sustainable civilization development
The process of dehumanization and technocratic trend in world engineering education began to change gradually towards its humanization in the last decades. This process also takes place in Russia, but is carried out extremely slowly. In this article's format, the changes in the structure of Western technical education, first of all, at the American technical universities, are analyzed in the perspective of teaching social sciences and humanities. The author offers his own platform of the humanitarian environment of university development that should help to destroy the stable milieu of future engineers technocratic thinking and create humanistic reference points for the sustainable civilization development.