International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

New educational standards include significant changes in the structure, content, aims and objectives of education of Agroengineering specialists. According to this the research of the role of project preparation in the professional competence formation of future specialists in agroengeneering was conducted. The results of the investigation the preparatory stages that are based on the systematic approach, which inclines four main components for making an agroengeneer as a specialist be ready for project activity, are represented. Beginning at the first preparatory course the improvement of educational pedagogical technologies should be directed to the target integration of subjects with providing growth of the results at each stage – physics and mathematics, general and special. The role of physical and mathematical education and formation of general professional competence of the future agroengineers, activity and the level of teachers’ influence on the project training of students was investigated.

New educational standards involve significant changes in the structure, content, aim and tasks of education. The article deals with the results of investigation of peculiarities of the method of projects usage in the theory of teaching a future agricultural engineer in higher education institutions. The method of projects in educational technologies provides solving an agricultural problem and it is directed into achieving a specific result that can be publicly presented and transferred to a customer. The main achievement is a creative research project that demands integrated knowledge, investigation for getting significant results of theoretical and cognitive character and practical character. Such project should be vital according to the chosen topic, problems and tasks, methods of investigation, sources of information, hypothesis and ways of solving the given problem.

The basis of study of soils and water resources by future specialists in agroengineering in higher educational institutions is presented. Innovative pedagogical technology is developed according to the method of gradually increasing educational load, which follows from previously learned and mastered material. The acquisition of professional competencies for agroengineering will ensure the development of project activities on the basis of preservation and even multiplication of natural resources. In the training process of agroengineering development, it is important to develop the mathematical apparatus for the necessary calculations, which will ensure optimization of the parameters of technological processes and structures.

Problematic issues of tillage on slopes are distinguished and methodological aspects of theoretical analysis and experimental researches and production testing of tillage and sowing machinery under the given conditions, in recognition of preservation of soil fertility, are represented. It is considered that sloping lands can be terraced to reduce water erosion of soil, but it is not always expedient to apply this anti-erosion measure, especially on slopes with low steepness, where the usage of special tools for soil-protective nonmoldboard tillage is preferable. The theoretical background to make calculation of sowing machines that are engineered for the system of precise/specific/accurate farming in fields with a complex terrain is presented.

Considered are the problematic issues of tillage on slopes and presented the methodological aspects of theoretical analysis and experimental research. The production testing of the work of tillage equipment in the circumstances is being taken into account for the conservation of soil fertility. It is considered that the ploughs are often used on sloping lands for primary tillage, although the use of special tools for subsurface of the soil conservation tillage is preferable. Given here are the scientific-theoretical and practical recommendations on the use of the complex contour tillage machines and drainage system in the agriculture fields with complex terrain.