COMPETENCIES-BASED LEARNING MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR A CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION

We might wonder about the professional motivations that drive students to pursue electromechanical (EM) engineer graduate studies. In this sense, we approach the notion of professionalization not only in the field of work, but also in the field of education, so that teachers and learners confront work situations and articulate work and training more closely within the framework of multiple specialisations in a dynamic environment. In this framework, a Competencies-Based Learning (CBL) approach was developed to list, prioritise, and complement competencies of the reference job repository of an EM engineer with the learning outcomes to cover the training areas through the specified curricula (Standards 1, 2). These competencies were transformed during the developing process of a learning factory established by a Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) to meet the training needs of an EM engineer in a pedagogical environment faced with a professional situation (Standards 5, 6, 7). For an EM engineer, we study the different situations encountered and experienced by the learner and draw up a list of specific professional skills encountering different layers of the pyramid of automation and industry 4.0 by referring to our technological installations within spaces set up for this purpose. A synergistic process between the different technological layers has been set up to support the learning process to match the targeted learning outcomes through the technological aspect defined via the CPS platform in an iterative process (Standards 3, 4, 8). Thus, a modular CPS platform is adapted to an engineer work environment and fed by real industrial projects ensuring knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to CDIO framework implementation.