Requirements for remote RF laboratory applications: An educators' perspective

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-81

  Cagiltay, Nergiz Ercil ^a   Aydin, Elif ^a   Oktem, Rusen ^a   Kara, Ali ^a   Alexandru, Marian ^b   Reiner, Bodo ^c  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Educational technology; Electrical engineering education; Life long learning; Radio frequency (RF); Remote laboratory

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LABORATORIES; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; RADIO WAVES;

ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION; COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES; ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT; LABORATORY INSTRUMENTATION; LIFE LONG LEARNING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY DOMAINS; REMOTE LABORATORIES;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 60549088093     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2008.919806     Document Type: Article

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