Considering importance of practical experience as a crucial step in effective transfer of knowledge to learner in electric measurements and other technical fields, paper caries out research results of effectiveness testing on remote laboratory developed at University of Sannio, Italy. Although remote laboratories are spreading among universities and educational institutions very fast because of their advantages in setup, price and accessibility actual effectiveness of this laboratories comparing to classical is still unknown. Two groups of students of the electric and electronic measurement courses have been chosen to test the effectiveness of remote laboratory comparing to classical one through specially designed experiment. They were executing both, hands-on and remote experiment. Obtained examination results and the learning process of those students have been analyzed and compared with those obtained by group of students of traditional teaching. Some surveys has also be carried out in order to obtain a feedback on effective usability, benefits and helpfulness of the remote measurement laboratory, but also it’s weakness and issues to be improved or investigated in the future.

This project was meant to be a study supporting material different from the current available ones to graduating students and technicians in the metrology field. Its setup was based on personal experiences from its elaborators. When deciding the contents and formatting of this project, it was agreed that it should contain the subjects: metrology history and terminology, number treatments, measurements, calibration and uncertainty estimates. It should also point out notions of nanotechnology. We were careful not to turn this project into a simple transcription of study notes from textbooks to a computer screen, so definitions and concepts a bit more difficult to understand were reviewed and illustrated with animations and / or interactive exercises. A growing order of difficulties was obeyed, beginning with its supporting chapter and concluding with some complex calculation of uncertainty measurements. Accessing it from remote locations will be possible in a near future. During its elaboration, this project was positively evaluated by several collaborators from different fields, from engineering students to technicians. The users were pleased with its contents and formatting what gave us the confidence that we were innovative and in the right track to become a reference supporting material for metrology studying and researching.

A training session dealing with triangulation under laser plane lighting is presented. Students are asked to implement an algorithm allowing the measurement of the width of rectangular plane objects. Experimental results obtained by the stu nts show an accuracy of 1%, for objects of different idths (10-40 cm), attitudes and distances from the ins ruments going up to 2.5 m.

TC3 round table discussion - contribution 3

TC3 round table discussion - contribution 1