New Horizons in Engineering Education: From Additive Manufacturing to Immersive Learning

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has now become a fully-functional production process, which is becoming more and more widespread in various industrial sectors. Besides, AM has the potential to enhance learning by providing engineering students with hands-on, experiential and interactive learning experience. In the same line, higher education’s focus on immersive learning has gained significant traction, thanks to the rise of digital technologies. In this context, this work reports the project conducted in the learning factory developed at the Industry 4.0 laboratory of the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT). Current projects are presented and challenges are pointed out.