STUDENTS ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESS OF SOLVING LABORATORY TASKS
Today the main objective of education is the formation of the student as an active creative personality, which able to plan their activities, to set goals and achieve them, to get specific results. The main purpose of universities is to prepare students for professional work. The specialists should be able to plan their work, do the calculations to make operational decisions based on the analysis of the current situation, monitor the progress and results of their work, and so on. In paper, while performing the laboratory work on special subjects the case method is used, this allows you to develop the ability to analyze unrefined industrial problems, as well as the ability to formulate the problem on their own. Using a laboratory-scale plant allows you to teach students to analyze the technological process, to get acquainted with the work of the operator, to troubleshoot, to manage regulators using the SCADA system. The designed training manual "Automation of the rectification column based on the controller ADVANT AC 460" makes it possible to perform a number of works. The Implementation of these works comes to the training of students, thus there is reinforcement of knowledge and skills of behavior (making decisions) in a certain situation. The Indicator of efficiency of carrying out laboratory work depends essentially on how the aim was formulated and the task was given to perform a certain laboratory exercise for working off problematic situation. The graduates have learned to analyze and consciously make decisions that impact on the implementation of course and diploma projects on special disciplines.