Educational web platform for performing the engineering experimental work

This paper proposes a new Web platform for educational activities for helping in the experimental work and the professional development of engineering students. The fundamental idea is to connect conventional theory study spaces, such as the classroom and home, through the Web platform proposed with experimental training tools in the hands-on laboratory. What is proposed is a new focus on classroom educational methodologies using the Web 2.0 technologies which allow for the integration of theoretical materials and concepts with experimental devices, tools and applications in a given industrial context expanding the experimental activities out of the campus constraint. This association increases the motivation of the students with the theory lecture material through a better understanding of abstract and deep theoretical concepts, such as physical consequences, which are difficult to explain in a theory study environment.