The article discusses the main ideas of STEAM education: teaching flexibility and plasticity of thinking through the arts, as well as the development of students’ creative abilities and the ability to solve real-world problems by combining science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. It was studied the experience of teaching in foreign universities on STEAM education, where the emphasis is on the students’ practical skills development with simultaneous integration of knowledge in interdisciplinary courses. The STEAM approach helps motivate students to further study, to engineering design and problem solving, attracts them to scientific research and open learning. Three key international learning models were analyzed and identified. including the methods used in the educational process. This study was carried out during the implementation of the project "Development innovative training potential of engineers through STEAM education", approved under the priority "Research in the field of education and Science" for 2021-2023. with the financial support of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant no. AR09260338).