The Role of Information Technology in the Formation of the Creative Thinking of the Future Engineer

The paper presents the research results on the role of information technologies in the formation of a creative type of thinking. Particular attention is paid to the formation of students’ creative thinking at technical universities. The analysis is based on the paradigmatic approach, which allows us to identify the dynamics of educational processes and carries a multitude of heuristic possibilities for analyzing the current state of affairs. The ways and methods of forming the creative thinking by the future engineer are indicated. The formation of creative thinking involves the study of a new type of determination, namely, the teleological one.