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This document contains the URLs to a number of papers that are related to the RWSL-like delivery of remote lab exercises.  There has been no attempt to make this an exhaustive list as the Environmental scan was not intended as a literature review, but as an attempt to identify projects within the US and Canada that use an RWSL-like method of delivering actual remote labs to students.

 

List of paper and publication URLs we happened across:

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http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~yuhong/2009/OnlineLab_JWSR-finalversion.pdf

 

http://fie-conference.org/fie2011/papers/1733.pdf (relates to Lab Share in Austrailia)

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131505001739

 

http://i3dea.asu.edu/data/docs_pubs/remote_operation_of_scanning_probe_microscopes_over_the_internet.pdf

 

http://www.altc.edu.au/system/files/resources/grants_project_report_engineering_uts_oct08.pdf

 

http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2009/ningbo/CD-CISST/CISST10.pdf

 

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1612126

See Rutgers Remote Educational and Laboratory Consortium below for an abstract.

 

Abdul K. M. Azad: http://www.niu.edu/~azad/

http://www.igi-global.com/book/internet-accessible-remote-laboratories/52730

 

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/45648/399647098.pdf?sequence=1 

 

http://vr-lab.engineeringtech.tsu.edu/publications/docs/RSMSL.pdf

 

http://vr-lab.engineeringtech.tsu.edu/publications/docs/AC2011_1070.pdf

 

http://vr-lab.engineeringtech.tsu.edu/publications/docs/proceeding_39027.pdf

 

http://vr-lab.engineeringtech.tsu.edu/publications/docs/AC2011_1070.pdf

 

http://vr-lab.engineeringtech.tsu.edu/publications/docs/368.PDF

 

 

 

The Rutgers Remote Educational and Laboratory Consortium was not accessible, so this record is not included in other sets Environmental Scan Records.  It is preserved here as it describes a paper that might be of interest.

 

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Name: Rutgers Remote Educational and Laboratory Consortium

 

Location: New Jersey

 

URL(s): http://mechanical.rutgers.edu/irle/ (This link does not work)

 

Funding Source(s): IEEE?

 

Purpose:

The development and evaluation of a remote laboratory for student manipulation and learning is reported in this work in progress paper. The laboratory allows students to observe and control a physical setup of a multi-pipe fluid flow experiment through the Internet and to predict and analyze the results. The laboratory learning environment interface was developed using Lab VIEWtrade and structured to enhance students understanding of basic engineering concepts, problem solving, experimental error, data analysis and curve fitting. It further provides students with the opportunity to use engineering software to develop their own algorithm to predict the results. A key aspect of the remote experimentation design is that it allows students to manipulate flow paths on a test bed section of the pipe flow network to obtain parameters they require for the prediction of the results. This allows the use of creativity in experimentation, a feature available in physical experimentation but often restricted in Web-based remote laboratories. The remote environment provides increased individual access to equipment during and outside of regular hours from any Web-enabled location. The overall architecture of the remote laboratory presented here can be easily applied to other technical fields

 

Abstract

The development and evaluation of a remote laboratory for student manipulation and learning is reported in this work in progress paper. The laboratory allows students to observe and control a physical setup of a multi-pipe fluid flow experiment through the Internet and to predict and analyze the results. The laboratory learning environment interface was developed using Lab VIEW trade and structured to enhance students understanding of basic engineering concepts, problem solving, experimental error, data analysis and curve fitting. It further provides students with the opportunity to use engineering software to develop their own algorithm to predict the results. A key aspect of the remote experimentation design is that it allows students to manipulate flow paths on a test bed section of the pipe flow network to obtain parameters they require for the prediction of the results. This allows the use of creativity in experimentation, a feature available in physical experimentation but often restricted in Web-based remote laboratories. The remote environment provides increased individual access to equipment during and outside of regular hours from any Web-enabled location. The overall architecture of the remote laboratory presented here can be easily applied to other technical fields

 

Software: LabVIEW

 

Comments: Link did not work as of 7/29/2011, so this project could not be evaluated along with the other projects in North America.