Abstract
The purpose of the article: to determine the potential of scientific research in domestic and foreign professional education in the formation of the creativity of a future engineer. Research methods: theoretical analysis of foreign and domestic literature, conversations, analysis of questionnaires, personal experience, assessment and self-assessment of bachelors, generalization and systematization of the data obtained. Research results: the article presents a theoretical analysis and analysis of research results, which allows: to give a formulation and reveal the content of the concept of “scientific search”, to define it as a significant side of the future engineer; identify mechanisms, models, principles and rules and types of scientific research etc. Conclusions: the possibilities of scientific research as a means of shaping the creativity of a future engineer have been determined, the importance of his/her motivational and reflexive position in engineering education has been substantiated.