Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

equipment lies idle during most of itsusable lifetime 8,9,10.Only a remote laboratory facility can provide cost effective and unlimited access toexperiments and maximize the utilization of available resources. Moreover, this will allowinter-laboratory collaboration among universities and research centers by providing researchand student groups access to a wide collection of expensive experimental resources atgeographically distant locations.One of the major limitations of the existing Internet accessible distance-learning courses istheir failure to deliver the laboratory-related courses 7. While simulation and multimediaprovide a good learning experience, for effective and complete learning, especially in STEMprograms, a mixture of theoretical and