International pedagogic approach for Chinese Honors Bachelor students: awareness to innovation in the field of electrical and information engineering

The Higher education pedagogy is the object of a strong evolution mainly due to the coming of digital society. This evolution supposes the capability to the future graduate students to apply microelectronics knowledge and know-how to the future connected objects. The presence of electronic and integrated circuits in many objects induces a high reliability due to the huge complexity, the priority of security of functioning, and the diversification of the mission profiles. The curricula of the students must prepare them to this evolution with an objective of innovation. In the frame of an international cooperation between French and Chinese institutes, an original experience was performed with Chinese "Honors" bachelor students enrolled in four specialties of engineering. Two modules of microelectronics and reliability were set-up. Due to diversity of student specialties, the principle of flipped classes was adopted. It has consisted of seminars that give the background, and of a personal student work for preparing a short report and an oral presentation in English, on the basis of documents on-line. Two parallel sessions of thirty students were organized. Each group has chosen a specific subject proposed by the foreign teachers. The final results were impressive by the quality of the reports and of the presentations. A survey under the form of questionnaire filled by the students has proved the interest and the effectiveness of this approach that answers to the need of transverse and multidisciplinary aspects involving microelectronics at the heart of the innovation.