Professional skills, as opposed to interpersonal skills, are types of skills that students learn in university. These skills are easy to quantify. The proficiency in these skills is easy to verify. Soft skills
cannot be measured and tested as simply as professional skills. The authors highlight the most indemand soft skills among employers. The article presents the results of several surveys of employers about the important requirements for jobseekers required for employment. Similar surveys
were conducted among employers and employees of IT companies in the Republic of Belarus. It
is concluded that soft skills are very important both for getting a first job and building a successful career. However, in the universities of the Republic of Belarus, teaching soft skills is poorly represented. The article shows how
the process of teaching students of the second stage of higher education was modernized. Only the IT specialties of five Belarusian
universities have undergone modernization. This work was carried out with the support of the international project MaCICT. At the
same time, the experience of teaching similar disciplines in the universities of the European Union was used. To assess the effectiveness of students’ acquisition of soft skills at the university, a system for assessing the results of the modernization of the learning
process was developed. Questionnaires for teachers, students and employees of IT companies have been developed. A survey of all
stakeholders in the results of the international project MaCICT was carried out. The paper provides information on the dissemination of the main approaches for organizing the teaching of IT specialties for teachers of another specialties of the Sukhoi State
Technical University of Gomel, as well as for teaching IT disciplines of another universities in the Gomel region.

Рассмотрены различные методики, позволяющие трактовать полученные результаты поазному, что в свою очередь может привести к наличию дефекта в дорогостоящем
и важном оборудовании, которое может выйти из строя в достаточно быстрый период
времени.

Various techniques allow us to interpret the results obtained in completely different ways,
which in turn can lead to the presence of a defect in expensive and important equipment that can
fail in a fairly fast period of time.

Рассмотрены способы повышения надежности работы микропроцессорных устройств релейной защиты и автоматики, использующих оптоволоконные каналы связи.

Ways to improve the reliability of the operation of microprocessor relay protection and
automation devices using fiber optic communication channels are considered.

Представлен обзор современных датчиков, которые позиционируются как элементы
Интернета вещей, используемые на транспорте. Приведены особенности их работы и использования в процессе перевозки грузов на разных видах транспорта. Использование инновационных элементов Интернета вещей позволяет обеспечивать сохранность перевозимых
грузов, повышение уровня информационного обеспечения о ходе перевозки и интеграцию
транспорта в индустрию 4.0.

An overview of modern sensors that are positioned as elements of the Internet of Things used
in transport is presented. The features of their operation and use in the process of transporting goods on different types of transport are given. The use of innovative elements of the Internet
of Things makes it possible to ensure the safety of transported goods, increase the level
of information support about the progress of transportation and the integration of transport into
industry 4.0.