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Weblabs at MIT A Retrospective Perspective

Weblabs at MIT A Retrospective Perspective. Clark K. Colton Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA USA. How did it get started? How was it funded? How did it work out? What are the challenges for the future?. A Brief History of MIT Weblabs.

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Weblabs at MIT A Retrospective Perspective

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  1. Weblabs at MIT A Retrospective Perspective Clark K. Colton Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA USA How did it get started? How was it funded? How did it work out? What are the challenges for the future?

  2. A Brief History of MIT Weblabs MIT Jesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton Rest of World 1993-95 Jame Trevelyan University of Western Australia Jim Henry University of Tennessee Telerobots on the internet Process control on the internet with Labview 1995-2000 Others . . . Microelectronics Weblab Animation Weblab Transistor electronic characteristics 15 sec Flow meter calibration by bucket and stopwatch 2000-02 Microsoft iCampus Grant to MIT (35 projects/5 yr) iLabs Project: Jesus del Alamo PI Objective: Demonstrate feasibility of diverse weblabs http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/projects/icampus/projects/ilab.html

  3. A Brief History of MIT Weblabs MIT Jesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton Rest of World 1993-95 Jame Trevelyan University of Western Australia Jim Henry University of Tennessee Telerobots on the internet Process control on the internet with Labview 1995-2000 Others . . . Microelectronics Weblab Animation Weblab Transistor electronic characteristics 15 sec Flow meter calibration by bucket and stopwatch 2000-02 Microsoft iCampus Grant to MIT (35 projects/5 yr) iLabs Project: Jesus del Alamo PI Objective: Demonstrate feasibility of diverse weblabs http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/projects/icampus/projects/ilab.html Microelectronics iLab iLab Heat Transfer Project Three labs in three subjects Three heat exchangers Conduction, convection, radiation http://heatex.mit.edu Exchanger performance Process control Five experiments http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/heatexchange-0522.html

  4. A Brief History of MIT Weblabs MIT Jesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton Rest of World 2002 >200 reports iLabs Project: Steve Lerman Co-PI Center for Educational Computing Initiatives http://icampus.mit.edu/iLabs/architecture/

  5. A Brief History of MIT Weblabs MIT Jesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton Rest of World 2002 >200 reports iLabs Project: Steve Lerman Co-PI Center for Educational Computing Initiatives http://icampus.mit.edu/iLabs/architecture/ iLabs - Africa Steve Lerman and Jesus del Alamo, Co-PI Grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York 2005

  6. A Brief History of MIT Weblabs MIT Jesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton Rest of World 2002 >200 reports iLabs Project: Steve Lerman Co-PI Center for Educational Computing Initiatives http://icampus.mit.edu/iLabs/architecture/ iLabs - Africa Steve Lerman and Jesus del Alamo, Co-PI Grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York 2005 2008 Funding winding down: One Programmer iLab Archecture Software Batch: In use in Africa Interactive: To be tested at MIT (heat exchanger) and Univ. W. Australia (fluid mechanics)

  7. Jesus del Alamo (EECS) PI Steve Lerman (CECI) Co-PI Microsoft iCampus Grant iLabs Project iLabs Software Architecture Development iLabs Hardware and Implementation in Classes Carnegie Corporation iLabs in Sub-Sahara Africa

  8. iLabs Project (Microsoft iCampus) Salary MIT Chemical Engineering Dept. Hardware Internet Animation Carnegie Corporation Cambridge-MIT Institute

  9. MIT Weblabs at Other Schools Microelectronics Heat Exchanger Heat exchanger performance Process Control Brown University University of Texas Cambridge-MIT Institute (Nigeria) Obafemi Awolowo University Cambridge-MIT Institute* University of Toledo (Ohio) Ongoing * Sub-Sahara Africa

  10. Issues and Challenges Development of Interactive Community Hardware and Software Internet Distribution Utility of specific experiments Narrow or broad applicability Infrastructure costs Economy of scale Quality of components Robustness Initial cost Maintenance – Hardware Maintenance – Software Batch vs. interactive Simple free standing Complex shared Student-grade vs. industrial-grade architecture Summary of Student Assessments (Heat Transfer for Weblabs) The weblab was educational. The weblab was fun. I prefer the weblab/hands on experiment. High agreement Moderate agreement 50/50 split

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