LEARNING BY DOING
S.F.C - Smart Factory Connected
A unique educational platform in Morocco, the S.F.C “Smart Factory Connected” is a full-scale manufacturing unit where students carry out practical work and projects directly connected to industrial reality. The SFC gives future engineers complete immersion in the industrial world through the production of plastic bottles, from raw material to finished product, covering all key stages of production, optimization and organization while respecting the environment through a recycling system. Thanks to latest-generation equipment (software & hardware), including robotic arms, cobots, MES, RFID systems and software, the S.F.C has become an experimentation platform for Industry 4.0
Fabricator - FABLAB
The key principles of a FABLAB are creativity, a collaborative spirit, problem-solving ability, agility and the enjoyment of learning. In this spirit, and to strengthen our educational model based on the concept of "Learning by Doing", HESTIM has invested in setting up a FABLAB on the new campus, creating an innovative learning space that promotes active learning.
This FABLAB gives HESTIM students the opportunity to explore, experiment with and discover new technologies. Whether during practical sessions, academic projects or entrepreneurial projects incubated by CIEL, future engineers are free to express their creativity and develop their expertise by embracing the latest technological advances in the industrial world and
professional world
Laboratories
Facilities equipped with test benches and machines for practical sessions and projects are available across our two campuses:
- Civil Engineering Laboratory
- Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
- Electronics Laboratory
- Mechatronics and Automation Laboratory
- Mechanical Workshop
HESTIM Project-Based Learning (3pH)
HESTIM Project-Based Learning (3pH) is based on the concept known as Project-Based Learning, which helps strengthen the technical, cognitive and managerial skills of future engineers.
PISTE – Supervised Scientific and Technological Initiation Project
Its objective is practical exploration. It encourages our students’ intellectual curiosity, stimulates critical thinking and fosters a passion for research.
PACTE – Professional Expertise Activities Project
Its objective is career discovery. It gives students practical immersion in their field of specialization (Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Logistics, and Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence).
PIC – Consulting-Based Integration Project
Its objective is professional expertise. It is the most realistic form a 3pH project can take. It provides a direct bridge between the academic and professional worlds by exposing students to real-life situations and authentic challenges in their future profession.
Software
Our academic team continuously monitors teaching methods, with particular attention to software tools.
This ongoing monitoring is reflected in the annual acquisition of a range of internationally renowned software solutions.
Educational Games
“A student retains six times more of what they do
than what they read or hear.”
To make certain modules more engaging and
facilitate skills acquisition, HESTIM has
equipped itself with more than fifteen educational games (Serious Games). For example, the LEGO educational game helps students understand the fundamentals of mechatronics. The main purpose of an educational game is to enable learning through practice
