NDLI: Incorporating Remote Capabilities in Undergraduate Lab Instruction

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Agarwala, Ranjeet Sherion, H. Jackson Andrew, E. Jackson Mehta, Merwan
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	The goal of the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina University (1, 2, 3) is to support the economic development requirements of Eastern North Carolina by creating professionals to meet the general engineering and technology needs of its private and public sectors. The various programs in the department emphasize the application of engineering and technology theories to solve real world problems. For this reason students are engaged in hands-on activities beginning with their first semester and do not wait for several semesters or years to experience real engineering activities. During the last three year there has been a tremendous effort to modify and update the curricula of all the department’s programs. Due to the rapid growth of the department in the last few years, the department has embarked on a mission to include distance education (DE) capabilities in its various courses. To accommodate this, various components of the course have been devised as stand alone modules woven together in a distributed environment. This will help sustain and strengthen the enrollment of the department by offering lab centric courses remotely. The model will also minimize the burden of purchase, support and maintenance of lab equipment and help reallocate excessive resources from face-to-face lab instruction. This paper will describe various strategies for integrating a DE lab model into the existing curriculum. The model will be realized through leveraging the exiting DE resources with the proposed model, creating a scalable DE enrollment model (96, 48 students, etc), integrating existing college and university computer hardware and software capabilities with the proposed model.
Starting Page	399
Ending Page	403
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0791843017
DOI	10.1115/IMECE2007-41819
e-ISBN	0791838129
Volume Number	Volume 7: Engineering Education and Professional Development
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Language	English
Publisher Date	2007-11-11
Publisher Place	Seattle, Washington, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Computers Maintenance Undergraduate students Students Computer software Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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