TEMPUS Project eSience

This special focus of the International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) is dedicated to five selected papers from REV2014, the 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation hold in Porto, Portugal, from 26-28 February 2014. These selected papers are describing the current progress of work of the euro-maghrebian TEMPUS project eSience

Online Laboratory in Digital Electronics Using NI ELVIS II+

This work is part of the ‘‘eSience’’ project, which is realized in the framework of Tempus project, coordinated by Bordeau university and financed by the European Union. The ‘‘eSience’’ project aims to create a network of online labs in the maghrebian countries. The present paper will present our recent work in order to extend our online laboratory ‘‘Khouribga OnlineLab’’ at Hassan the 1 st university in Morocco. It will focus on the development of a digital online laboratory supporting experiments in the fields of combinational logic circuits, sequential electronics, and digital multiplexer. The developed system is combining NI ELVIS II+ and the NI digital Electronics FPGA board. By using the interactive version of iLab Shared Architecture, students will have a complete access to manage and control the system in real time

Developing a Remote Laboratory for Heat Transfer Studies

Remote labs that enable students to conduct real-world experiments at a distance using a computer and Web-based tools can be the only realistic method of performing practical experiments in the context of distance learning. eSience Tempus project "Maghreb Network of remote labs" offers an innovative pedagogical approach which integrates eLearning and is complementary to classroom learning. The main objective of this project is to create an efficient remote labs network in the Maghreb region for the modernization of higher education in technological sciences. The current paper summarizes the work carried out on a heat exchanger bench to be fully accessed and controlled remotely. Through this new device a student of Mechanical Engineering is introduced to many fundamental aspects of heat transfer