Professional Self-identification of Student's Majoring in Engineering

The concept of consciousness, as a scientific problem, has been the object of many scientists' research. Basically, humanities scientists dealt with this problem. Due to the fact that consciousness is an intangible phenomenon, it is quite difficult to study it without applying the inter- or transdisciplinary approach including data from History, Social sciences, Psychology and other cognitive studies. It is hard to imagine the modern research of the consciousness, without the use of technology. The paper studies the socio-psycholinguistic aspects of self-identification of students majoring in Engineering. The authors identify the special features of the perception of the engineering profession throughout the time, focusing on the contemporary peculiarities of the matter.