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

12-15 Oct. 2011

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; continuing professional development; courseware; educational courses; further education; laboratories; software prototyping; teleworking; virtual instrumentation; European universities; Germany; Ilmenau University of Technology; digital system; e-working; laboratory equipment; master study program; online lab; rapid prototyping; remote engineering; remote laboratories; teleworking; virtual laboratories; 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

Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2011

Conference_Location

Rapid City, SD

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-468-8

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2011.6143131

Filename

6143131