An Online Lab to support a Master Program in Remote Engineering

Author

Pop, Diana ; Zutin, Danilo G. ; Auer, Michael E. ; Henke, Karsten ; Wuttke, Heinz-Dietrich

fYear

2011

fDate

12-12 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Remote Engineering is one of the future directions for advanced teleworking/e-working environments not only in engineering and science (economics, informatics), but also in all other fields affecting society. In the last decade, considerable advances have been made regarding the design and development of remote and virtual laboratories, but it requires a lot of new specialists. As an attempt to improve the situation, several European universities started a joint Master Study Program in Remote Engineering (MARE) including in its curriculum a course of “Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems” designed by the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany. This course required an extensive use of laboratory equipment to carry out several exercises and therefore the implementation of an Online Lab turned out to be a good solution to ensure better learning outcomes.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; educational courses; electronic engineering education; teleworking; virtual instrumentation; European universities; Ilmenau University of Technology; MARE; Master Study Program in Remote Engineering; Online Lab; Web-based education; advanced e-working environment; advanced teleworking environment; rapid prototyping of digital systems course; remote engineering; remote laboratory design; virtual laboratory design; Digital systems; Educational institutions; Hardware; Remote laboratories; Servers; Software; Innovative Software and Hardware Systems for Education and Training; Remote Control via Internet; Web-based Education; Web-based design tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Online Laboratory Consortium Remote Laboratories Workshop (GOLC), 2011 First

Conference_Location

Rapid City, SD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1944-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GOLC.2011.6086784

Filename

6086784