Аннотация:The writers of the article try to prove the necessity to teach Science and Technics History Course for a modern innovation engineer formation. They use general scientific research methods such as analyses and synthesis, comparative and also historical methods, such as narrative, historic-genetic, typological, structural and systematic approach. The authors claim that the given course is necessary for modern specialists as in technical as well as in humanitarian sphere to form their wide scientific knowledge, high-level scientific culture. The authors of the article share their experience in creating Science and Technics History department in Ural State Technical University (later Ural State Federal University, which is one of the biggest Universities in Russia, They also write about their experience in teaching the given course, writing textbooks and organizing the work of the students, masters and post-graduates of this university. They consider issues of cooperation with the specialists of other humanitarian, natural-science and technical directions in academic and scientific fields. Accomplishments of the department's specialists in organizing regional and all-Russian conferences are shown. The examples of public and science responses to the department's work are given.