BCIT Power Engineering

 

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Name: BCIT Power Engineering

 

Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada (Near Vancouver)

 

URL(s): 

http://commons.bcit.ca/update/2009/02/power-engineering-leaders-in-educational-technology/

http://www.bcit.ca/co-op/powerprocesseng/ 

http://www.bcit.ca/files/energy/powereng/pdf/powerenginfo_2011_final.pdf 

 

Contacts:

Sanja Boskovic

Chief Instructor
604.451.6730
Sanja_Boskovic@bcit.ca

 

Participating institutions: BCIT

 

Funding Source(s): Unknown at present

 

Purpose:

This program is primarily aimed at people employed in the Power Engineering field who want to improve their credentials.  To this end it provides laboratory experience to Distance Education students, by allowing students to operate and monitor lab boilers and auxiliary equipment through internet controls.

 

Policies:

This is primarily for students who are enrolled as distance students in the Power Engineering program at BCIT.

 

Procedures:

Students in specific courses have access to the remote labs

 

Hardware:

Hydraulic Bench, Heat Exchanger (coming soon)

 

Software: LabView

 

Scheduling Solutions: Unknown at present

 

Academic level: Trades certificates and diplomas

 

Academic area: Power Engineering

 

Lab names: See Hardware.

 

Capacity: Unknown at present

 

Comments:

• [Ron] This is very RWSL-like, but is applied to Power Engineering programs and the hydraulic bench in particular.
• IPECC2011-Halifax.ppt‎ (4 MB‎)‎[Open as Web Page‎]

 

 

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