Innovation for Education on Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) and related objects are becoming more prevalent around the world with exponential growth for the next fifteen years. This evolution implies innovation in many fields of technology, whose core is in microelectronics. Indeed, IoT deals with all societal applications such as health, the environment, transport, energy and communications. Thus, connected objects involve many technological components: sensors and actuators, signal processing circuits, data transmission circuits and systems, energy recovery systems, which directly depend on the performance of microelectronics. To create new connected objects, innovation is the main driver. Innovation results from the combination of a multidisciplinary approach, links between disciplines and the necessary know-how of engineers and technicians. This paper deals with the orientation of pedagogy towards these objectives through the development of dedicated and innovative platforms in microelectronics. These platforms are developed by the French National Microelectronics Education Network (CNFM). After presenting the context of IoT and the evolution of microelectronics technologies, this article highlights the main components of connected objects applied to many societal applications. Each component of the objects requires specific microelectronic devices or circuits. Innovation appears in the nature of platforms, the multidisciplinary approach of training, the permanent links between disciplines, and the adaptation to new educational tools, mainly online. The results of the training on innovative platforms are presented and discussed

Innovative practice in the French microelectronics education targeting the industrial needs

International audienceThe very fast evolution of the application field in microelectronics requires the adaption of higher education to engineer and master students in order to answer to the industrial, “Research and Development”, and economical needs. In parallel, the development of our digital society, which proposes more and more massive open on-line courses, maintains the students in a theoretical knowledge. Therefore higher education must increase practices and know-how. This has been done in the framework of the French national network for education in microelectronics and nanotechnologies (GIP-CNFM), which adopted a strategy to promote innovative practices in the microelectronics. Through the microelectronics evolution, several examples are given to justify that practice and know-how are the pillar of technical higher education