Collaborative Research: Develop Next Generation Unified Framework for Remote Laboratory Experiments

协作研究：开发用于远程实验室实验的下一代统一框架

• 批准号: 0935008
• 负责人: Xuemin Chen
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Texas Southern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935008&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Develop; Next; Generation

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) This engineering education research award to the University of Houston in collaboration with Texas Southern University will employ researchers to develop a general framework for remote laboratory experiments with the goal of making access and use independent of the computer platform, operating system, and browser. Barriers to access to remote experiments would be reduced through the use of a web page interface. Existing experiments will be used to test and evaluate the remote laboratory framework, and this framework will be integrated into a number of courses. The unified framework will reduce the need for special computer expertise by faculty wishing to use remote laboratory experiments, so a larger pool of faculty can take advantage of these resources in laboratories and classrooms. This project will allow much wider use of physical laboratory work in educational environments which have limited space and physical resources. The project can also potentially increase the utilization of physical resources through scheduling of off-site users, thus making laboratory equipment more cost effective. Hands-on laboratory experience is an essential part of undergraduate engineering education, and this research will advance understanding of how to broadening access to remote laboratory experiments and improve engineering education to prepare students for engineering jobs.

该奖项由 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）资助。休斯顿大学与德克萨斯南方大学合作的这项工程教育研究奖将聘请研究人员开发远程实验室实验的通用框架，其目标是使访问和使用独立于计算机平台、操作系统和浏览器。通过使用网页界面可以减少访问远程实验的障碍。现有的实验将用于测试和评估远程实验室框架，并且该框架将被整合到许多课程中。统一的框架将减少希望使用远程实验室实验的教师对特殊计算机专业知识的需求，因此更多的教师可以在实验室和教室中利用这些资源。该项目将允许在空间和物理资源有限的教育环境中更广泛地使用物理实验室工作。该项目还可以通过调度场外用户来提高物理资源的利用率，从而使实验室设备更具成本效益。实验室实践经验是本科工程教育的重要组成部分，这项研究将加深人们对如何扩大远程实验室实验的了解，并改善工程教育，为学生做好工程工作的准备。