“Fundamentals of technical creativity” is mandatory discipline for all bachelors of technical higher education institutions

The history and results of many years of experience in the implementation of the disciplines "Fundamentals of Technical Creativity" (FTC) at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) are presented. The content of lectures and practical work on FTC, which for ten years were taught and performed with a creative form of knowledge transfer to future machine builders and their acquisition of competencies. The positive influence of the FTC discipline on the inventive activity of students to justify the teaching of the discipline, as mandatory, to all bachelors of technical institutions of higher education in Ukraine is illustrated by the example of the Department of Metal-Cutting Machines.