Resource optimizing, access delimited (ROAD) electrical power and machinery laboratory-a prototype

The cost of equipping an average modern power laboratory for teaching and graduate research runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is therefore necessary for many electrical power engineering programs to trade off quality measurement and laboratory equipment for affordable but significantly less accurate scaled-down models such as fractional horse-power machinery sets. The author proposes an electrical power and machinery laboratory concept attempts to remedy some of the deficiencies and inadequacies of the current model. The Resource Optimizing, Access Delimited (ROAD) laboratory prototype under development is a top-rate electrical power and machinery laboratory facility that would be accessible to the world community through computer networks, Internet, Intranet, Extranets, Overnets and PC-based virtual instruments.