Formation of Professional Imagination in the Process of Implementation of Technical Disciplines with the Aid of Modern Information Technologies

The article describes the peculiarities of the use of information technology in teaching the discipline "Descriptive geometry, engineering and computer graphics". SolidWorks in combination with traditional teaching methods was used to develop professional imagination as a necessary intellectual quality of bachelors of the specialty "Road Transport", at the stage of improving the professional and moral and psychological support of the activity of the personnel of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGSU). The work combines drawing work on a drawing sheet with the use of information technologies and retains active cadet intervention in the process of creating volumetric images directly in a graphic editor. The paper demonstrates the peculiarities of the cadets' acquisition of practical skills in creating volumetric models with SolidWorks tools and the development of detail drawings. The main criteria for the selection of individual tasks are substantiated: complex nature and clearly expressed geometric orientation. The objects selected for imaginary transformations were simple geometric shapes and volumetric bodies. On the basis of the developed psychological tests the influence of the means of performing technical tasks with the use of a graphic editor on the formation and development of the professional imagination of cadets is determined. The use of SolidWorks Graphic Editor has fostered professional imagination, spatial and logical thinking, and has developed a desire for technical and professional activity which provided the opportunity to perform various technical tasks quickly and professionally and to increase the country's defense capability.