Testing Bench for Remote Practical Training in Electric Machines

Remote labs are emerging as a necessary tool to support practical classes in engineering studies. It is due to the increasing number of students who combine their studies with work. In fact, there are numerous developments in areas such as electronics and automatic. However, there are only a few of them in the area of electrical machines. This paper presents a testing bench for remote practical training in electric machines. The security challenges presented by these experiments are overcome by software within the remote lab. In addition, a friendly interface has been designed including augmented reality to identify the different elements and to provide information on these items if the student requires it. The testing bench has been developed to be used in different kinds of electrical machines test

Workshop proceedings: Information Systems for Space Astrophysics in the 21st Century, volume 1

The Astrophysical Information Systems Workshop was one of the three Integrated Technology Planning workshops. Its objectives were to develop an understanding of future mission requirements for information systems, the potential role of technology in meeting these requirements, and the areas in which NASA investment might have the greatest impact. Workshop participants were briefed on the astrophysical mission set with an emphasis on those missions that drive information systems technology, the existing NASA space-science operations infrastructure, and the ongoing and planned NASA information systems technology programs. Program plans and recommendations were prepared in five technical areas: Mission Planning and Operations; Space-Borne Data Processing; Space-to-Earth Communications; Science Data Systems; and Data Analysis, Integration, and Visualization

Virtual laboratories for education in science, technology, and engineering: A review

Within education, concepts such as distance learning, and open universities, are now becoming more widely used for teaching and learning. However, due to the nature of the subject domain, the teaching of Science, Technology, and Engineering are still relatively behind when using new technological approaches (particularly for online distance learning). The reason for this discrepancy lies in the fact that these fields often require laboratory exercises to provide effective skill acquisition and hands-on experience. Often it is difficult to make these laboratories accessible for online access. Either the real lab needs to be enabled for remote access or it needs to be replicated as a fully software-based virtual lab. We argue for the latter concept since it offers some advantages over remotely controlled real labs, which will be elaborated further in this paper. We are now seeing new emerging technologies that can overcome some of the potential difficulties in this area. These include: computer graphics, augmented reality, computational dynamics, and virtual worlds. This paper summarizes the state of the art in virtual laboratories and virtual worlds in the fields of science, technology, and engineering. The main research activity in these fields is discussed but special emphasis is put on the field of robotics due to the maturity of this area within the virtual-education community. This is not a coincidence; starting from its widely multidisciplinary character, robotics is a perfect example where all the other fields of engineering and physics can contribute. Thus, the use of virtual labs for other scientific and non-robotic engineering uses can be seen to share many of the same learning processes. This can include supporting the introduction of new concepts as part of learning about science and technology, and introducing more general engineering knowledge, through to supporting more constructive (and collaborative) education and training activities in a more complex engineering topic such as robotics. The objective of this paper is to outline this problem space in more detail and to create a valuable source of information that can help to define the starting position for future research

Online Delivery of Teaching and Laboratory Practices:Continuity of University Programmes during COVID-19 Pandemic

A great number of universities worldwide are having their education interrupted, partially or fully, by the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Consequently, an increasing number of universities have taken the steps necessary to transform their teaching, including laboratory workshops into an online or blended mode of delivery. Irrespective of the measures taken, universities must continue to maintain their high academic standards and provide a high-quality student experience as required for delivery of learning outcomes associated with each degree programme. This has created a challenge across the higher education landscape, where academics had to switch to remote teaching and dierent approaches to achieving laboratory delivery. As a result, students have not been receiving face-to-face teaching, and access to laboratory facilities has been limited or nearly impossible. This paper reviews numerous approaches taken by universities to deliver teaching and laboratory practices remotely, in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst also considering the potential impacts on the student learning experience. This review is primarily focused on the fields of engineering, science and technology, based on published literature including books, reviewing web-based provision of selected universities, institutional and national policy documents

Analysis of avalanche's shared memory architecture

technical reportIn this paper, we describe the design of the Avalanche multiprocessor's shared memory subsystem, evaluate its performance, and discuss problems associated with using commodity workstations and network interconnects as the building blocks of a scalable shared memory multiprocessor. Compared to other scalable shared memory architectures, Avalanchehas a number of novel features including its support for the Simple COMA memory architecture and its support for multiple coherency protocols (migratory, delayed write update, and (soon) write invalidate). We describe the performance implications of Avalanche's architecture, the impact of various novel low-level design options, and describe a number of interesting phenomena we encountered while developing a scalable multiprocessor built on the HP PA-RISC platform

Platform, tools and methodology for experimental learning improvement in electronics engineering and their applications fields

221 p.La adaptación al nuevo Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) está suponiendo un reto en muchas universidades, entre ellas la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), para poner en marcha una transformación de las metodologías enseñanza-aprendizaje, de las actitudes tanto de los profesores como de los estudiantes y, por supuesto, de los sistemas evaluación, entre otras muchas cuestiones. Como ejemplo de esta transformación, la UPV/EHU lleva años promoviendo el aprendizaje activo y cooperativo mediante el modelo pedagógico IKD (Ikasketa Kooperatibo eta Dinamikoa, Aprendizaje Dinámico y Cooperativo). Basándose en este modelo pedagógico, en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao se han venido desarrollando diferentes estrategias educativas que buscan mejorar muchos de los aspectos relacionados con la educación en ingeniería.La introducción de una novedosa metodología de aprendizaje basada en proyectos, combinada con la implantación de unas actividades prácticas de desensamblado, análisis y ensamblado funcional y todo ello desarrollado sobre escenarios industriales específicos, crea un nuevo entorno educativo que se convierte posiblemente en una de las contribuciones más innovadoras de esta tesis. La visión mejorada del estudiante sobre el conocimiento teórico como solución para el diseño tecnológico, la efectividad del trabajo en equipo y, finalmente, el desarrollo de competencias profesionales relevantes son algunos de los resultados más destacables de este trabajo.Los resultados obtenidos a lo largo de estos años se contrastan mediante el reconocimiento externo, con la publicación en revistas internacionales, tales como IEEE Transaction on Education, International Journal Engineering Education, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (indexadas en el JCR), así como en diferentes congresos internacionales de reconocido prestigio

Platform, tools and methodology for experimental learning improvement in electronics engineering and their applications fields

221 p.La adaptación al nuevo Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) está suponiendo un reto en muchas universidades, entre ellas la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), para poner en marcha una transformación de las metodologías enseñanza-aprendizaje, de las actitudes tanto de los profesores como de los estudiantes y, por supuesto, de los sistemas evaluación, entre otras muchas cuestiones. Como ejemplo de esta transformación, la UPV/EHU lleva años promoviendo el aprendizaje activo y cooperativo mediante el modelo pedagógico IKD (Ikasketa Kooperatibo eta Dinamikoa, Aprendizaje Dinámico y Cooperativo). Basándose en este modelo pedagógico, en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao se han venido desarrollando diferentes estrategias educativas que buscan mejorar muchos de los aspectos relacionados con la educación en ingeniería.La introducción de una novedosa metodología de aprendizaje basada en proyectos, combinada con la implantación de unas actividades prácticas de desensamblado, análisis y ensamblado funcional y todo ello desarrollado sobre escenarios industriales específicos, crea un nuevo entorno educativo que se convierte posiblemente en una de las contribuciones más innovadoras de esta tesis. La visión mejorada del estudiante sobre el conocimiento teórico como solución para el diseño tecnológico, la efectividad del trabajo en equipo y, finalmente, el desarrollo de competencias profesionales relevantes son algunos de los resultados más destacables de este trabajo.Los resultados obtenidos a lo largo de estos años se contrastan mediante el reconocimiento externo, con la publicación en revistas internacionales, tales como IEEE Transaction on Education, International Journal Engineering Education, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (indexadas en el JCR), así como en diferentes congresos internacionales de reconocido prestigio