This article presents theoretical information from Western thinkers on the study of professional and communicative competencies of engineers studying in technical fields. It also references a number of decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan aimed at identifying priority directions for the systematic reform of higher education in the country, elevating the process of training highly qualified personnel with modern knowledge, high spiritual and moral qualities, and independent thinking to a qualitatively new level, modernizing higher education, and developing social and economic sectors on the basis of advanced educational technologies.

competence, communicativeness, professional and business approach, systematic approach, contextual approach, competency-based approach, general scientific level, general philosophical level.

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