Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab
Remote laboratories represent a significant value to engineering curricula in a variety of cases. Whether it is a complement to a hands-on experience or a substitute when a traditional lab is not feasible, remote laboratories can be a valuable educational resource. Since 1998, the MIT iLab Projec...
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| author | Jiwaji, Adnaan Hardison, James Ayodele, Kayode Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, Sandy Mwambela, Alfred Harward, V. Judson del Alamo, Jesus A. Harrison, Bryant Gikandi, Samuel |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Jiwaji, Adnaan Hardison, James Ayodele, Kayode Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, Sandy Mwambela, Alfred Harward, V. Judson del Alamo, Jesus A. Harrison, Bryant Gikandi, Samuel |
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| description | Remote laboratories represent a significant value to engineering curricula in a variety of cases.
Whether it is a complement to a hands-on experience or a substitute when a traditional lab is not
feasible, remote laboratories can be a valuable educational resource. Since 1998, the MIT iLab
Project has worked to increase the quality and availability of remote laboratories. Using the iLab
Shared Architecture, developers of new labs can leverage a set of generic support functions and
then share those labs easily and with minimal administrative cost. More recently, the iLab
Project, in partnership with Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, Makerere University in
Uganda and the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania and in coordination with the Maricopa
Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), has focused on building iLabs around the
National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (ELVIS) platform.
The ELVIS is a low-cost, small-footprint unit that contains most of the common test instruments
found in a typical electrical engineering lab. By coupling the ELVIS with iLabs, a variety of
remote electronics laboratories can be built and shared around the world. Using this common
hardware/software platform, participants in the iLab Project at different levels of the educational
spectrum have developed experiments that meet their individual curricular needs and are able to
host them for use by other peer institutions. Not only does this increase the variety of ELVISbased
iLabs, but it also spurs the creation of teams that can then build other, more diverse iLabs
and substantively participate in project-wide collaborative development efforts. Through such
coordinated efforts, iLabs can provide rich practical experiences for students |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/720052022-10-03T07:24:43Z Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab Jiwaji, Adnaan Hardison, James Ayodele, Kayode Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, Sandy Mwambela, Alfred Harward, V. Judson del Alamo, Jesus A. Harrison, Bryant Gikandi, Samuel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science del Alamo, Jesus A. Jiwaji, Adnaan Hardison, James Harward, V. Judson del Alamo, Jesus A. Harrison, Bryant Gikandi, Samuel Remote laboratories represent a significant value to engineering curricula in a variety of cases. Whether it is a complement to a hands-on experience or a substitute when a traditional lab is not feasible, remote laboratories can be a valuable educational resource. Since 1998, the MIT iLab Project has worked to increase the quality and availability of remote laboratories. Using the iLab Shared Architecture, developers of new labs can leverage a set of generic support functions and then share those labs easily and with minimal administrative cost. More recently, the iLab Project, in partnership with Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania and in coordination with the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), has focused on building iLabs around the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (ELVIS) platform. The ELVIS is a low-cost, small-footprint unit that contains most of the common test instruments found in a typical electrical engineering lab. By coupling the ELVIS with iLabs, a variety of remote electronics laboratories can be built and shared around the world. Using this common hardware/software platform, participants in the iLab Project at different levels of the educational spectrum have developed experiments that meet their individual curricular needs and are able to host them for use by other peer institutions. Not only does this increase the variety of ELVISbased iLabs, but it also spurs the creation of teams that can then build other, more diverse iLabs and substantively participate in project-wide collaborative development efforts. Through such coordinated efforts, iLabs can provide rich practical experiences for students Maricopa County Community College District. Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center Carnegie Corporation of New York Microsoft Corporation National Science Foundation (U.S.) (award 0702735) Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center 2012-08-07T13:55:59Z 2012-08-07T13:55:59Z 2009-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72005 Jiwaji, A., J. Hardison, K. P. Ayodele, S. Stevens, A, Mwanbela, V. J. Harward, J. A. del Alamo, B. Harrison, and S. Gikandi, "Collaborative Development of Remote Electronics Laboratories: The ELVIS iLab." 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition., Austin, TX, June 14-17, 2009. en_US http://www.asee.org/search/proceedings?search=session_title%3A%22Laboratory+Development+in+ECE+Education+%22+AND+conference%3A%222009+Annual+Conference+%26+Exposition%22 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Society for Engineering Education del Alamo via Amy Stout |
| spellingShingle | Jiwaji, Adnaan Hardison, James Ayodele, Kayode Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, Sandy Mwambela, Alfred Harward, V. Judson del Alamo, Jesus A. Harrison, Bryant Gikandi, Samuel Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab |
| title | Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab |
| title_full | Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab |
| title_fullStr | Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab |
| title_short | Collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the ELVIS ilab |
| title_sort | collaborative development of remote electronics laboratories in the elvis ilab |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72005 |
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