There is represented the model of the modern engineering education built with consideration of the theses of philosophy and sociology of techniques. There is shown the importance of formation of a personality’s ecological culture as the principles of full cooperation with the environment and realization of the final senses of technical development.

There is considered the forming knowledge society. There is revealed the essence and the parameters of this process. There is proved that the education enriched with the component of the humanities becomes the point of social growth, the centre of innovative development

There is marked the role of liberal arts study in forming the professional culture of a modern engineer. There is substantiated the view that social and humanist component becomes an integral part of the professional culture of any specialist. There are regarded the methods of sociocultural competence development of future engineers in the course of social and humanist disciplines.