WEB-BASED LABORATORY TRAINING ON ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS

F. P. Baumgartner, R. Heule, M. Peter

Abstract

In the educational process of teaching engineers one important part is to bridge the gap between theory (functional principle, model….) and real world (hardware, devices…). By learning e.g. how to use an oscilloscope in a real application the functional principle is accompanied by an evaluation of the measurement results. In our web-based electrical laboratory www.internetlabor.ch the user trains himself how to push the right button on a real oscilloscope by a mouse click via his internet browser. The measured data downloaded subsequently are the product of a real hardware operation based on a real measurement action and not output of a simulation. Web-based instrumentation supports teaching only successfully, if the user understands the basic functional principles of the instruments already to some degree. In addition, the teaching process has to comprise a discussion of the measured data to achieve an understanding of how a reliable measurement result is obtained. Therefore, the electrical internet-laboratory is integrated in a web-based training environment on electrical measurement systems.

Keywords

web-based instrumentation, web-based training, educational laboratory

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IMEKO TC

TC1 - Education and Training in Measurement and Instrumentation

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