THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REMOTE LABORATORY FOR INTERNET-BASED ENGINEERING EDUCATION
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https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v10i4.1742Keywords:
Institutional Transformation, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Community, ScalabilityAbstract
The development of feasible and cost-effective remote engineering and science laboratories is one of the most important problems facing the progress of online technical education. In this paper, we describe the development of a complete remote laboratory for the instruction of control engineering. Equipped with common industrial sensors and actuators, the system represents temperature and flow processes regulated with an industrial Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Using local monitoring, we enable students to perform interactive real plant experimentation in control and automation without the overhead incurred in maintaining a full presence laboratory.
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