Emulation-based virtual laboratories: A low-cost alternative to physical experiments in control engineering education

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-55

  Goodwin, Graham C ^a   Medioli, Adrian M ^a   Sher, Willy ^a   Vlacic, Ljubo B ^b   Welsh, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Composite teaching techniques; emulation based aboratories; engineering education; low cost laboratories; teaching resources; virtual laboratories

Indexed keywords

EMULATION-BASED ABORATORIES; LOW-COST LABORATORIES; TEACHING RESOURCES; TEACHING TECHNIQUES; VIRTUAL LABORATORIES;

CONTROL THEORY; COSTS; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 79551653991     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2010.2043434     Document Type: Article

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