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Web‐based laboratory for engineering education
Author(s) -
Stefanovic Miladin,
Matijevic Milan,
Cvijetkovic Vladimir,
Simic Visnja
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.20222
Subject(s) - computer science , web application , the internet , virtual laboratory , realization (probability) , software engineering , remote laboratory , multimedia , software , test (biology) , architecture , control (management) , world wide web , engineering management , operating system , engineering , artificial intelligence , art , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , visual arts , biology
Laboratory experiments and practical work by their nature are unavoidable, important, and costly in the engineering education environment. The web laboratory is an educational tool for teaching students the basic principles and methodology in performing a series of experiments on different equipment at any time and from any location through the Internet. In this paper, pre‐requests, architecture, and software realization of the Web Laboratory at University of Kragujevac are presented. Organization, development, goals, and possible demands of the laboratory exercise: The inverted pendulum/gantry crane controls (with the capability to test different control algorithms) are also discussed. The applications of the web lab have been tested with the students enrolled at University of Kragujevac and the initial educational results of the implementation of this laboratory exercise are presented. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 18: 526–536, 2010; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com ; DOI 10.1002/cae.20222