Dispositivos móviles para el análisis de circuitos integrados de aplicación específica (CIAE)

The aim of this work is to develop a simultaneous multi user access system—READ (Remote ASCI Design and Test)— that allows users to performtest and measurements remotely via clients running on mobile devices as well as on PCs. The system also facilitates the remote design of circuits with the PAC-Designer®. The system is controlled by LabVIEW® and was implemented using a Data Acquisition Card from National Instruments. Such systems are specially suited for manufacturing process monitoring and control. The performance of the simultaneous access was tested underload with a variable number of users. The server implements a queue that processes user’s commands upon request.El objetivo de este trabajo es desarrollar un sistema multiusuario de acceso simultáneo, CRED (CIAE Remotos, diseño y pruebas) que permite a los usuarios realizar pruebas y mediciones a distancia, a través de clientes que utilizan dispositivos móviles, así como en PC. El sistema también facilita el diseño de los circuitos de control remoto con el Diseñador-PAC®. El sistema está controlado por LabVIEW® y se llevó a cabo utilizando una tarjeta de adquisición de datos de National Instruments. Estos sistemas son especialmente adecuados para el seguimiento de procesos de producción y control. El rendimiento del acceso simultáneo se puso a prueba con carga, con un número variable de usuarios. El servidor implementa una cola de procesos de comandos a petición del usuario

ITs in engineering education: joining efforts between SPEE and IGIP

The International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) and The Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (SPEE), the first being the oldest European Society for Engineering Education in Europe and the second the very young Society for Engineering Education in Portugal, have been intensifying the collaboration between the two societies as well as the exchange and dissemination of information about their relevant activities, whilst promoting understanding and cooperation between their respective members. One possible way is to create joint working groups, open to the members of both societies, on common topics of interest. In fact, both societies already kicked off this activity. The first initiative happened during the 1st World Engineering Education Flash Week (WEE), Lisbon, 2011. The SPEE-IGIP Flash Moment was a one day event integrated in the main Conference, which was dedicated to “Information & Communication Technologies in Engineering Education”. ITs allow the development of different teaching strategies which contribute to enhance the learning outcomes of students. ITs are also particularly suited to develop Life Long Learning tools, in a broad range of Engineering subjects, either open to the general market or oriented to a very specific public. Examples of teaching strategies involving ITs have been addressed during the Flash Moment SPEE-IGIP which took place during WEE, and some are described in detail in the present work

The VISIR+ Project – Preliminary results of the training actions

Experimental competences allow engineering students to consolidate knowledge and skills. Remote labs are a powerful tool to aid students in those developments. The VISIR remote lab was considered the best remote lab in the world in 2015. The VISIR+ project main goal is to spread VISIR usage in Brazil and Argentina, providing technical and didactical sup- port. This paper presents an analysis of the already prosecuted actions regarding this project and an assessment of their impact in terms of conditioning factors. The overall outcomes are highly positive since, in each Latin American Higher Education Institution, all training actions were successful, the first didactical implementations were designed and ongoing in the current semester. In some cases, instead of one foreseen implementation, there are several. The most statistically conditioning factors which affected the outcomes were the pre-experience with re- mote labs, the pre-experience with VISIR and the training actions duration. The teachers’ per- ceptions that most conditioned their enrollment in implementing VISIR in their courses were related to their consciousness of the VISIR effectiveness to teach and learn. The lack of time to practice and discuss their doubts and the fulfillment of their expectations in the training actions, also affected how comfortable in modifying their course curricula teachers were.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Una Federación de Laboratorios Remotos VISIR a través del Proyecto PILAR

Este documento describe cómo un nuevo proyecto Erasmus+, PILAR (Plataform Integration of Laboratories base don the Architecture of visiR), está siendo desarrollado y cómo la puesta en marcha del partenariado y del proyecto está reforzando la red VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) y el Grupo de Interés Especial de VISIR bajo el Consorcio de Laboratorios online (GOLC - Global Online Laboratory Consortium) de la Asociación Internacional de Ingeniería Online (IAOE - International Association of Online Engineering. La Universidad Española para la Educación a Distancia (UNED) coordina este proyecto que tiene como objetivo federar los sistemas existentes (o nuevos) con el fin de utilizar los recursos de manera más efectiva y eficiente, haciendo transparente para el usuario final la elección de los recursos compartidos.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Chapter 1

Experimenting is fundamental to the training process of all scientists and engineers. While experiments have been traditionally done inside laboratories, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies added two alter-natives accessible anytime, anywhere. These two alternatives are known as virtual and remote labs, and are sometimes indistinguishably referred as online labs. Sim-ilarly to other instructional technologies, virtual and remote labs require some ef-fort from teachers in integrating them into curricula, taking into consideration sev-eral factors that affect their adoption (i.e. cost) and their educational effectiveness (i.e. benefit). This chapter analyses these two dimensions and sustains the case where only through international cooperation it is possible to serve the large num-ber of teachers and students involved in engineering education. It presents an ex-ample in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, based on a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, and it then describes how a number of European and Latin-American institutions have been cooperating under the scope of an Erasmus+ project2, for spreading its use in Brazil and Argentina.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

DISPOSITIVOS MÓVILES PARA EL ANÁLISIS DE CIRCUITOS INTEGRADOS DE APLICACIÓN ESPECÍFICA (CIAE)

The aim of this work is to develop a simultaneous multi user access system—READ (Remote ASCI Design and Test)— that allows users to performtest and measurements remotely via clients running on mobile devices as well as on PCs. The system also facilitates the remote design of circuits with the PAC-Designer®. The system is controlled by LabVIEW® and was implemented using a Data Acquisition Card from National Instruments. Such systems are specially suited for manufacturing process monitoring and control. The performance of the simultaneous access was tested underload with a variable number of users. The server implements a queue that processes user’s commands upon request.El objetivo de este trabajo es desarrollar un sistema multiusuario de acceso simultáneo, CRED (CIAE Remotos, diseño y pruebas) que permite a los usuarios realizar pruebas y mediciones a distancia, a través de clientes que utilizan dispositivos móviles, así como en PC. El sistema también facilita el diseño de los circuitos de control remoto con el Diseñador-PAC®. El sistema está controlado por LabVIEW® y se llevó a cabo utilizando una tarjeta de adquisición de datos de National Instruments. Estos sistemas son especialmente adecuados para el seguimiento de procesos de producción y control. El rendimiento del acceso simultáneo se puso a prueba con carga, con un número variable de usuarios. El servidor implementa una cola de procesos de comandos a petición del usuario

READ - Remote Analog ASIC Design System

The scope of this work is to present a solution to implement a remote electronic laboratory for testing and designing analog ASICs (ispPAC10). The application allows users to create circuit schematics, upload the design to the device and perform measurements. The software used for designing circuits is the PAC-Designer and it runs on a Citrix server. The signals are generated and the responses are acquired by a data acquisition board controlled by LabView. The virtual instruments interact with some ActiveX controls specially designed to look like real oscilloscope and function generator devices and represent the user interface of the lab. These ActiveX give users the control over the LabView VIs and the access to its facilities in order to perform electronic exercises

Mobile devices for testing of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC)

The aim of this work is to develop a simultaneous multi user access system—READ (Remote ASCI Design and Test)— that allows users to performtest and measurements remotely via clients running on mobile devices as well as on PCs. The system also facilitates the remote design of circuits with the PAC-Designer®. The system is controlled by LabVIEW® and was implemented using a Data Acquisition Card from National Instruments. Such systems are specially suited for manufacturing process monitoring and control. The performance of the simultaneous access was tested underload with a variable number of users. The server implements a queue that processes user’s commands upon request.El objetivo de este trabajo es desarrollar un sistema multiusuario de acceso simultáneo, CRED (CIAE Remotos, diseño y pruebas) que permite a los usuarios realizar pruebas y mediciones a distancia, a través de clientes que utilizan dispositivos móviles, así como en PC. El sistema también facilita el diseño de los circuitos de control remoto con el Diseñador-PAC®. El sistema está controlado por LabVIEW® y se llevó a cabo utilizando una tarjeta de adquisición de datos de National Instruments. Estos sistemas son especialmente adecuados para el seguimiento de procesos de producción y control. El rendimiento del acceso simultáneo se puso a prueba con carga, con un número variable de usuarios. El servidor implementa una cola de procesos de comandos a petición del usuario

A Framework for Analyzing and Evaluating Architectures and Control Strategies in Distributed Remote Laboratories

Remote Access Laboratories (RALs) have been used to develop experimental knowledge about practical engineering topics for a while. Distributed remote laboratories aim to share experiment among institutions and individuals through a distributed architecture. Experiments from diverse areas are combined as part of a larger system. Multiple control strategies are used to integrate experiments in Remote Laboratory Management Systems (RLMSs). This work defines two main categories to analyze the various implementations, white box and black box approaches. Experiments can be on a spectrum between these two extremes, sharing properties of both. When integrating an existing experiment into a new distributed RAL system, it is useful to evaluate the experiment with respect to its host or new RLMS for determining the best strategies to assimilate it. This paper provides a framework for such evaluation based on a number of properties of experiments. The proposed framework is called SHASS (Software, Hardware, Assessment, Support, and Share-ability) based on several factors such as the hardware used, the software to create the program, methods of sharing, user’s support, and assessment of user’s performance. It can be used to evaluate quality and identify options for improvements within an experiment's existing RLMS as well. Using this framework, a black box and white box approach are compared using two examples - federated and Peer-to-Peer RAL. The evaluation focuses on technical capabilities and development possibilities. A set of four experiments are also analysed to illustrate the utility of the framework in creating and improving experiments with respect to their RLMS