Empowering minds and shaping futures

The way people think, design, produce and consume is rapidly changing. This shift impacts every industry and creates demand for a skilled, collaborative workforce to develop sustainable, innovative solutions. Because we deeply believe in the virtual world’s potential to improve the real world, we offer programs to empower individuals through technology and education. Our 3DEXPERIENCE Lab accelerates startups tackling global challenges. 3DEXPERIENCE Edu promotes experiential learning for evolving skills. La Fondation Dassault Systèmes provides grants to inspire young people in STEM and fosters innovation in education, research and cultural heritage. Through each initiative, we partner with trusted organizations to offer technology and mentoring to help address global challenges with a science-based approach. These efforts showcase our commitment to empowering visionary thinkers and planting seeds for a sustainable, impactful future.
 

Systems are becoming smarter, more connected and increasingly autonomous, resulting in products and ecosystems of unprecedented complexity – systems that call for enhanced development methodologies because they blend mechanics, electronics, software and sustainability requirements. 

Modern engineering requires a systems thinking approach due to the increasing complexity and the global collaboration it requires. Employees need to have skills to tackle complex challenges in modern engineering along with training on how to collaboratively work on shared projects in virtual environments.
 

The future of engineering

Systems Engineering (SE) is the approach taken by most leading businesses for tackling these technical, economic and environmental complexities. SE acts as a framework that integrates various disciplines, ensuring cohesive functionality across all components. As SE becomes the norm for tackling modern challenges, it requires digital transformation. This is where Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) comes in, using digital models instead of traditional documents to enhance collaboration, efficiency and clarity. 

However, for both SE and MBSE, there’s far more need today than there are qualified professionals – and it’s a gap that continues to widen.
 

A new paradigm in classrooms

Consistent, open dialogue between industry and academia helps identify key skills shortages. When organizations work together to identify needs and then build a learning path, there’s far-ranging benefits: businesses get the types of workers they need and employees are armed with specific marketable skills and mindsets. 

Unfortunately, as SE and MBSE develop, not all faculty know how to teach about these approaches. The field involves a steep learning curve, requiring deep industry knowledge and advanced tools. This is where our 3DEXPERIENCE Edu team comes in. Their “Education Experience” offer provides academics with innovative and practical teaching methods to fully integrate SE and MBSE lessons into their curriculum: ready-to-use content, templates and interactive courses for streamlined teaching and flexibility. Students are empowered by learning tools like CATIA and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that are used by a wide range of leading companies of all sizes, helping them on their path to become skilled systems engineers and valuable employees.

The 3DEXPERIENCE Lab’s mission is to nurture and accelerate collaborative, community-driven projects. We fast-track innovations that disrupt the status quo to positively impact people and society. We achieve this by leveraging collective intelligence and empowering talented individuals who aspire to change the world, using Dassault Systèmes solutions. 

Twice a year, the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab organizes pitch sessions where five to six startups present their projects. A panel of Dassault Systèmes executives then selects the startups that will join the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab accelerator program.

In today’s world, water is both precious and feared

While more than 2 billion people are living under water stress and 3.6 billion face inadequate access to water, 42% of household wastewater is not treated properly, damaging ecosystems and human health. Water supply is also heavily impacted by the consequences of climate change and disasters around the world, from floods to heatwaves to wildfires; its proper and sustainable management is, however, central to help society adapt to climate change, build resilience, protect health and save lives. It also mitigates climate change itself by protecting ecosystems and reducing carbon emissions from water and sanitation, transportation and treatment.
 

Water Research Lab 

La Fondation Dassault Systèmes supports projects that seek to better understand water-related challenges and find sustainable solutions. One of them is the BMS College of Engineering Water Research Lab in Bangalore. Established in 2022 with the support of La Fondation Dassault Systèmes in India, the Water Research Lab conducts a number of research and consultancy projects that provide scientific, technological and sustainable solutions to challenges related to water resources management. 

The Water Research Lab’s ambition is to become a center of quality for higher education in this field, creating a learning curriculum for students and practicing engineers, to train them in water management using virtual reality, 3D and simulation technologies. One of their current projects involves the creation of interactive learning content on flood forecasting, risk mapping and mitigation. The goal is to enable future civil engineers to design hydraulic structures more efficiently and implement appropriate mitigation strategies to assist city planners in delineating flood-prone areas, by simulating dam breaches, for example.