"Remotification" of lab exercises dealing with physical test rigs and simulations.

Lab exercises are one of the key elements for engineering students to comprehend through the application in actual situations of fundamental concepts and to analyze, synthesize, and make judgments based on evidence.

The role of new e-learning tools that use blended and distance learning methodologies is rapidly increasing in the university educational process, especially when facing extraordinary circumstances of global pandemic situations or other limitations for students' physical presence on campus.

Project results

Remote Labs

Remote labs developed at partner universities: KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), Paderborn University (Germany)

Remote Lab Test Rig at KTH

Turbolabs

Advanced linear cascade test rig for turbomachinery aeromechanics education and training

Remote Lab Test Rig at KTH

Solarlabs

Indoors Steady State Solar Simulator and advanced PV system simulator for remote educatino and training

Economics Game at PM

Risk Management

Business Continuity planning by analysing the impact of disruptions on different key business processes

Remote Lab Test Rig at UPB

Heat Exchanger Lab

Experimental investigation of three different types of heat exchangers for liquid heat transfer medium

Our idea of Lab Exercises "Remotification":

Providing remote access to lab exercises should be a streamline process, so the teachers, familiar with LabVIEW*, should be able to implement and support it.

Remote Labs in RemLab project were developed using NI LabVIEW and G-Web development software. The development templates and guidelines are available for download (free of charge).

* "remotification" of lab exercises implies that the lab rig is already (or could be) sufficiently automated using LabVIEW or (in case automation is implemented not in LabVIEW) could be interconnected with LabVIEW

Accessibility and user experience
Web-client runs in any web browser or on any device and can serve multiple students simultaneously
Simplified development process
Seamless integration with LabVIEW, no need for specific internet security details or web development expertise

Cooperative Remote Labs Virtual Campus for Higher Education in Industrial Engineering

Project Goal