Abstract:

The development of curricular and organizational features of mater’s programs and specially the choice of educational technologies, learning methods are among the university’s responsibilities. The paper considers an interdisciplinary project as a necessary element of the engineering education and a condition of obtaining professional competencies. The paper reports on the investigation of obstacles that an interdisciplinary project meets in practice and suggests the principles and evaluation criteria that might help to overcame the obstacles. The Master’s program “Information technologies in advertising and public relations” that is provided by National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia) was chosen as a base for a design experiment. Further research should validate these criteria for evaluation an interdisciplinary project and create the detailed procedure of assessment with measurable indicators.