New vision in microelectronics education: Smart e-Learning and know-how, a complementary approach

Abstract

The evolution towards a digital society is indisputable and the development of online tools adapted to education is becoming a priority. At the same time, the technologies that allow the development of these tools as well as the connected objects become more and more complex with a need for know-how as well for the design of these objects as for their manufacture and production. Let us mention that the connected objects cover a large spectrum of applications opened to other disciplines. A new approach to education is needed. Following a presentation of the context, this article discusses the strategy that has been adopted to successfully combine engineering learning, and more especially the microelectronics training with the e-learning and the acquisition of know-how through practice. Because practical training is becoming more and more complex and costly, the trend is to share platforms dedicated to education within the framework of a network. This was set up in France for more than thirty years. The evolution of this network in this new context of digital society with an increasing priority of development of Internet of Things is presented and discussed.