Today´s key global trends in engineering education: Preparing freshmen for nanotechnology

Transformations in educational systems and their subsequent components in various countries have mainly similar features and have become research subjects of many international forums all over the world. The global trends in the field of engineering education that are not usually broadly discussed are given. Important accents for disciplines that are taught to freshmen studying at the faculties tutoring specialists for needs of the nano-bio-info-industry and local societies are named. Important modern global trends for engineering education were taken into account and introduced into the Physics curriculum for freshmen for the specialties of “Informational systems and data basis” and “Nanomaterials”. The introduced innovations are universal and could potentially be used further for other subject courses of engineering education.