Integrating Virtual Experiments and Hands-On Labs - A Synergistic Approach to Enhance Engineering Education (Project IVEHOL)

工程教育计划名为“整合虚拟实验与实作实验—强化工程教育的协同方法”（IVEHOL），将著重于研究、测试和评估实作实验与虚拟实验在本科工程课程中的有效性，以及为该计划特别开发的新型混合实验室。该项目旨在实现三个同等重要的目标，所有这些目标都与本科水平工程实践和基于模拟的学习活动的结合使用有关：(1)研究和评估使用实践、基于模拟和混合活动的各种教学方法对知识、技能和态度的影响的比较影响；(2)为选定的工程内容领域开发混合实验室，举例说明整合实践和基于模拟的活动的各种方法；(3)为如何在工程教育中结合实际活动和虚拟活动，提出一套通用的教学和课程开发指南。IVEHOL项目将研究动手实验、虚拟实验和混合活动在不同学习和教学风格和教学环境中的有效性和影响。该项目将创造创新的混合活动，逻辑上将现实模拟与传统的大学实验室实验（使用教育实验室软件）或商业和工业用于培训工程师和技术人员的工业测试和控制设备相结合。集成模拟通过提供过程的内部视图来扩展动手实验室，因此它可以将动手观察和测量与坚实的科学，技术和数学联系起来。

The engineering education project entitled, Integrating Virtual Experiments and Hands-On Labs - A Synergistic Approach to Enhance Engineering Education (IVEHOL) will focus on the research, testing and evaluation of the effectiveness of the use of hands-on and virtual experiments in undergraduate engineering curricula, as well as novel hybrid laboratories developed specifically for this project. The project seeks to achieve three equally important goals, all related to the combined use of hands-on and simulation-based learning activities for undergraduate-level engineering: (1) research and evaluate the comparative impact of various pedagogical methods using hands-on, simulation-based, and hybrid activities in terms of their effects on knowledge, skills, and attitudes; (2) develop hybrid labs for selected engineering content areas that exemplify various ways of integrating hands-on and simulation-based activities; and (3) produce a set of general pedagogical and curriculum development guidelines for how to combine actual and virtual activities in engineering education.Project IVEHOL will research the effectiveness and impact of hands-on labs, virtual experiments and hybrid activities on different learning and teaching styles and instructional settings. The project will create innovative hybrid activities that logically integrate realistic simulations with either traditional college laboratory experiments, which employ educational labware, or with industrial testing and control equipment used by businesses and industry for training engineers and technicians. Integrated simulations expand hands-on labs by providing an inside view of the process and thus it can bridge hands-on observations and measurements with solid science, technology, and mathematics.