Deng, Y., & Yeter, I. H. (2024, June), Exploring Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perspectives on 
Laboratory Learning: Comparing Hands-On, Remote, and Virtual 
Environments  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--47446

\bibitem{asee_peer_47446}
  Deng, Y., \& Yeter, I. H. (2024, June), \emph{Exploring Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perspectives on 
Laboratory Learning: Comparing Hands-On, Remote, and Virtual 
Environments}
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
  10.18260/1-2--47446

Yanyao Deng and Ibrahim H. Yeter.  "Exploring Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perspectives on 
Laboratory Learning: Comparing Hands-On, Remote, and Virtual 
Environments".  2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/47446 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_47446}
  Yanyao Deng and Ibrahim H. Yeter.
  "Exploring Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perspectives on 
Laboratory Learning: Comparing Hands-On, Remote, and Virtual 
Environments".
  \emph{2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/47446 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Engineering is a discipline dedicated to designing, developing, and optimizing 
production systems and relies heavily on laboratory experience. Laboratories play a 
pivotal role in facilitating coherent learning outcomes from theoretical knowledge and 
are particularly crucial in enabling engineering students to acquire empirical data for 
designing and developing products while evaluating their performance on hands-on, 
remote, and virtual laboratories are three distinct types used in engineering majors, 
each with advantages and disadvantages. Notably, remote and virtual laboratories 
have gained prominence in universities worldwide, especially in light of the COVID-
19 pandemic. Remote laboratories have emerged as a primary mode of laboratory 
learning for engineering students, and remote laboratories are poised to remain a 
central trend in the future, even as the pandemic abates. The findings highlighted the 
reasons underlying students' attitudes. Transcripts of the interviews were analyzed 
using thematic and content analysis methods. The thematic analysis identified eight 
five main themes: (1) expectations and academic growth; (2) communication skills; 
(3) challenges in hands-on learning; (4) virtual learning experience; (5) personal 
growth and workplace readiness. Students' attitudes towards the three types of 
laboratories were varied. Hands-on laboratories were favored for essential practical 
experiences, while remote and virtual laboratories were perceived as efficient and 
convenient options. In conclusion, personal experiences, gender differences in lab 
preferences and experience, technological comfort, and individual learning styles all 
influence these attitudes, and the findings of this study have implications for 
improving engineering education and future laboratory development.
AU  - Yanyao Deng
AU  - Ibrahim H. Yeter
CY  - Portland, Oregon
DA  - 2024/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Exploring Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perspectives on 
Laboratory Learning: Comparing Hands-On, Remote, and Virtual 
Environments
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--47446
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