Students’ adaptation to future professional engineering activity

The central idea of the research is the concept of «adaptation of students’ adaptation to professional engineering activity during various historical periods and the possible development of this concept in the educational space. The aim of the study is to clarify the concept of students’ adaptation to future professional engineering activity in post-industrial society. The authors trace the historical aspect of the development and analyze the concept in question over different historical periods, including the present time. Using a comprehensive analysis, the authors examine various aspects of the contemporary understanding of professional adaptation, namely cognitive, activity-based, socio-psychological, moral, and psychophysiological ones, and develop a concept structure of students’ adaptation professional activity. Attention is drawn to the importance of adaptability development and the necessity of designing a relevant model for this development is justified.