Keyword: «professional growth environment»

The relevance of the research is determined by the need to reduce the gap between academic training and the industry requirements. Modern challenges in the nuclear medicine related to the development of nuclear energy and high-tech industries, as well as the request from both medical institutions and technology companies to obtain more accurate and informative results by using of mathematical and algorithmic methods for the analysis, interpretation and processing of medical signals, actualize the need to give the students of technical specialties not only theoretical knowledge, but also practical competences in these areas. One of the most effective ways to gain practical skills is to integrate industry competitions into the pedagogical system of engineering education. The aim of the paper is to substantiate the need for systematic participation of students and teachers in specialized competitions and identify the key factors to realize this approach successfully. There are developing radiation safety skills and implementing digital transformation of data processing by using modern information technologies used as examples in the paper. The paper is devoted to the study of pedagogical conditions that contribute to the effective training of specialists through the integration of industry competitions into the educational process. The main approach here is to analyze scientific theories and practices that should be used to integrate industry championships into higher education effectively, as well as to identify the advantages and disadvantages of existing variants for implementing such integration. The work results in substantiating the necessary conditions for integration and describing positive experiences by using the examples of radiation and information technology trajectories in a bioengineering educational program. The theoretical significance is determined by the basis of socio-psychological theories that confirm the effectiveness of the activity-based approach in education. The practical significance of the work lies in the examples of successful integration of practices based on competitive events into the educational process and improvement of the education quality.