Intellectual operations development through language acquisition at a technical university

Abstract

This paper deals with the idea of efficient intellectual operations development required for students to be successful at acquiring information via IT tools and learning a foreign language. The authors provide a list of functional soft skills referred as cogitative abilities. These operations ensure critical data selection during relevant engineering information search contained in digital engineering environment. Intellectual skills are rated in the course of instruction of graduates and undergraduates. Suggestions on skills formation and their further improvement on the basis of IT tools and functional approach are given.