The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the adaptation of traditional teaching models, as systems with individual licences in the classroom are no longer possible and teaching approaches with more global design techniques are being addressed. This new paradigm requires studying the feasibility of this operability for academic purposes. Platforms tend to shift their way of working to the cloud, with different highly specialised modules, allowing multidisciplinary and collaborative design work. Major advances in the field of computation, new trends in the industrial marketplace and the evolution of the information and communication technologies (Wang, 2018) forces to train the new design engineers in an ecosystem according to the system where they will perform their work (Morales-Avalos & Heredia-Escorza, 2019), and these industrial software platforms are suitable for this. The phases of the complete life cycle of a product are supported by various information technology systems. With the adequate use of these software platforms, product development is achieved with minimum costs and a rigorous fulfilment of the required functionalities along with the most optimal manufacturing process (Li et al., 2020). Now the products are designed and calculated virtually by means of Computer-aided Design and Engineering (CAD/CAE) techniques, simulating the conditions to which they will be destined. In recent years, Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) technologies have definitively been integrated as developing and evolving body within the manufacturing industry. The virtual system has demonstrated high efficiency and students have shown a satisfactory evolution in their professional training. The practice has given very good pedagogical results in the work of skills related to the field of industrial design and manufacturing.
The methodology has been implemented transversally in two Master’s degree subjects related to advanced design and manufacturing and has been carried out thanks to the operation of the product lifecycle management platform software by virtual machines. In this work, we study the feasibility of the teaching proposal of the management of this type of tools through a Project-Based Learning method in a distance learning environment. However, their implementation in the university environment presents certain barriers that make it difficult. Computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering technologies (CAD/CAM/CAE) are a mainstay in today’s industry and therefore they should be an important part in the current training plan of the graduate engineers.
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