Content of professionally oriented training in course of physics for students of agricultural engineering specialties

The technology of professionally oriented education requires fundamental changes in the organization, content and methods of the educational process. This is, first of all, the transfer of emphasis of theoretical training to theoretical and applied, professionally oriented training. On the scientific and methodological level, the relevance of this investigation is determined by the need to design the process of forming professional competence and to identify didactic conditions that contribute to its efficient implementation. The purpose of this study is the problem of forming professional competence of the future engineers in the process of teaching a physics course. As a result of the investigation the efficiency of the proposed methodology for the formation of professional competence of the future agricultural engineers was scientifically substantiated and experimentally verified. A comparative analysis of the results of the study in the reference and the experimental group showed that the quantitative indicators and qualitative characteristics of the levels of formation of the components of the readiness of the future agricultural engineer to implement professionally oriented training in the experimental groups increased significantly compared to the reference group. In the experimental groups the number of students with a low level of knowledge decreased by 48% and increased with an average of ≈ 29% and sufficient by 18.5%. The positive dynamics of the level of knowledge revealed as a result of experimental verification gives reason to assert the efficiency of the proposed organizational and pedagogical conditions of this methodology for the implementation of professionally oriented education in the course of physics.