Conducting laboratory experiments over the Internet

Author

Shen, Hong ; Xu, Zheng ; Dalager, B. ; Kristiansen, V. ; Strøm, ø ; Shur, Michael S. ; Fjeldly, T.A. ; Lu, Jian-Qiang ; Ytterdal, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Comput. & Syst. Eng., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

Volume

42

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

8/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

185

Abstract

We report on an interactive on-line laboratory for remote education called Automated Internet Measurement Laboratory (AIM-Lab), which utilizes the Internet and the World Wide Web. AIM-Lab allows efficient use of laboratory equipment in both regular and laboratory courses, especially in a distance-learning environment. Our approach is based on newly developed software packages and commercial measurement equipment. As an example, we describe an application of remote experiments on semiconductor device characterization, which can be freely accessed on the Web

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; educational computing; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; semiconductor devices; student experiments; telecontrol; AIM-Lab; Automated Internet Measurement Laboratory; Internet; commercial measurement equipment; distance-learning environment; graphical user interface; interactive on-line laboratory; laboratory courses; laboratory equipment; laboratory experiments; remote education; remote experiment; software packages; telecontrol; Application software; Instruments; Internet; Laboratories; Semiconductor device measurement; Semiconductor devices; Software measurement; Software packages; Systems engineering and theory; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.779896

Filename

779896