Remote laboratories for electrical &amp;amp; electronic subjects in new engineering grades

Tawfik, Mohamed; Sancristobal, Elio; Martín, Sergio; Gil, Charo; Losada, Pablo; Díaz, Gabriel; Castro, Manuel

doi:10.1109/fintdi.2011.5936416

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“…Hopefully, this procedure will allow the students to gain more efficient experimentation skills during their first electronics practices. On the other hand, the department is working on the expansion of VISIR deployment on the practices of engineering grades subjects to include more number of student and more complex circuits [7]- [8].…”

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VISIR: Experiences and Challenges

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Abstract-It is of crucial importance the integration of practical sessions in engineering curricula owing to their significant role in understanding engineering concepts and scientific phenomena. However, the lack of practical sessions due to the high costs of the equipment and the unavailability of instructors has caused a significant declination in experimentation in engineering education. Remote laboratories have tackled this issues providing online reusable and shared workbenches unconstrained by neither geographical nor time considerations. Thereby, they have extremely proliferated among universities and integrated into engineering curricula over the last decade. This contribution compiles diverse experiences based on the deployment of the remote laboratory, Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR), on the practices of undergraduate engineering grades at various universities within the VISIR community. It aims to show the impact of its usage on engineering education concerning the assessments of students and teachers as well. In addition, the paper address the next challenges and future works carried out at several universities within the VISIR community.

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“…In VISIR, the traditional equipment (DC-power source, function generator, multimeter and oscilloscope) are replaced with an equipment platform, which is suited for remote control such as PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation), LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) and GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) [14].…”

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A practice-based MOOC for learning electronics

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et al. 2014

2014 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

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This paper describes the design, development and first results and impressions of a novel Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on industrial electronics practices. This was possible by implementing a state-of-the-art remote laboratory within the MOOC to allow online delivery of such practiceswhich makes this MOOC a first of its kind. Thus, the core of the MOOC is the remote laboratory Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR) and the experimentation carried out on it.A preliminary discussion on the design and structure of the MOOC is presented, based on the learning analytics of the MOOC platform and the operations record stored by the remote laboratory. The students' profile interested in this kind of MOOCs and their needs for getting advantage out of the remote laboratory are also considered in the discussion. The conclusions will result in modifications in this MOOC for a re-edition and the evaluation of the convenience of an advanced new MOOC.

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“…The idea is for the students to be able to perform real experiments [4][5], in real time, on real equipment, but over the Internet. This idea is in fact a widely discussed issue.…”

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“…Giving students a taste of real situations, the behavior of measure instruments and how does the control action work, is a vital aspect nowadays. All these things can be done with laboratory experiments although it can be tricky with a large amount of students or in distance learning environment, as it is proposed by UNED (National Distance University of Spain) in its official degrees.The idea is for the students to be able to perform real experiments [4][5], in real time, on real equipment, but over the Internet. This idea is in fact a widely discussed issue.…”

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Practical experiences on building structured remote and virtual laboratories from the student's point of view

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Sánchez

Aliane

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2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings

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Nowadays, the use of remote laboratories is a common feature in order to get students involved in practical experiences. This is particularly important in distance learning environment. The regular practice is to develop a particular laboratory, required by the student competence's curricula. Usually, this involves a lack of methodology or a standard procedure so, new developments must be done to include new laboratories, additionally so many "manual" procedures are required. RELATED (REmote LABoratory Extended) it's used to solve these issues. In this paper, a practical experience of the structured development process of a virtual laboratory, using RELATED framework, will be presented from the point of view of students. This virtual laboratory is a simple signal generator. This signal generator will be used to generate a reference position for the height of the ball of an electromagnetic levitation system in a control experiment. Finally, responses of surveys made by students will be presented, in order to get satisfaction results of using/development of virtual/remote laboratories using RELATED.Index Terms -remote experimenting, virtual and remote laboratories, software development, services and facilities, practical experience II. INTRODUCTIONAcquiring qualitative knowledge is one of the most important things in control engineering education [1-3]. Giving students a taste of real situations, the behavior of measure instruments and how does the control action work, is a vital aspect nowadays. All these things can be done with laboratory experiments although it can be tricky with a large amount of students or in distance learning environment, as it is proposed by UNED (National Distance University of Spain) in its official degrees.The idea is for the students to be able to perform real experiments [4][5], in real time, on real equipment, but over the Internet. This idea is in fact a widely discussed issue. In this general context there are many works, but all these remote and virtual laboratories are punctual efforts of different research groups. The use of the software and hardware of different universities is not contemplated in any case, not taking advantage of the work previously carried out by others. This is to say, a lack of methodology or a standard for the construction of networks of virtual/remote laboratories based on previous developments. Also, services and facilities for all of these laboratories are not present.RELATED framework [6] proposes a structured methodology of remote/virtual labs development and, also, provides common facilities as user management, booking, basic visualization (trend graphs and direct interaction using interactive variables), data logging and experimental session's control. A RLAB (Remote LABoratory) system is defined using a formal specification (which is LEDML, based on XML). The main component is an experiment, which is defined on the laboratory XML specification. To integrate a laboratory as a RLAB system is only necessary to develop local access to laboratory equipme...

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Remote laboratories for electrical & electronic subjects in new engineering grades

Cited by 17 publications

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VISIR: Experiences and Challenges

VISIR: Experiences and Challenges

A practice-based MOOC for learning electronics

Practical experiences on building structured remote and virtual laboratories from the student's point of view

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