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

A new approach for analyzing the content and structural units of modern lectures in a higher educational institution is presented. The requirements that should be presented to the lecture in order for it to meet its modern purpose in the continuous education of students have been analyzed. It is quite natural that individual lectures from certain disciplines may not meet all the listed requirements at the same time. However, any lecture should satisfy the educational, developmental and educational functions as much as possible.

The introduction of a testing system for agricultural machinery and implements, from the very beginning of the emergence of this research and production industry, is possible only with the establishment of a machine testing station, which reproduces the full cycle of crop cultivation. To do this, it is necessary to have appropriate land plots where crops are grown and subsequently tested, appropriate management personnel (agronomist and ordinary workers) and traction vehicles, i.e. horses. It is mandatory to have measuring instruments and various measuring equipment that can be used by scientists, testers and engineers during the tests. They should carry out preparatory work on the adaptation, adjustment, calibration and use of these devices. The next necessary condition is also the methodology for conducting the tests and processing the results of these measurements. The first testing station for agricultural machinery and implements in Ukraine that met these requirements was founded, established and began to operate successfully in Kharkiv, namely at the Kharkiv Practical Technological Institute in 1889.