Remote-access engineering educational laboratories: who, what, when, where, why, and how?

With the popularization of the Internet and the World Wide Web and with installation of “fast” Internet connections throughout many developed countries, engineering educators at many universities have developed Internetand Web-based laboratories. They have shown that such remote-access engineering educational laboratories are technologically feasible. However, much less is known at present on how remote-access laboratories are likely to change educational practices in the USA or abroad. The paper discusses the results of a preliminary survey of nine electrical engineering departments in the United States on administrative and market-related issues related to the use of remote-access engineering laboratories