Internet-based interactive remote laboratory for educational experiments

The present changing world leads to a new century in which chemical engineers should face unforeseen challenges. New capacities and proficiency do not grow spontaneously in the students but require training. In particular, the advances in information technologies have induced a fundamental change in both, contents and methods of the teaching+learning process. Education researchers involved at every level and in every discipline have developed new methods, tools and environments for instruction. The educational use of computers has advanced beyond word processing and numerical calculations to include integrated data acquisition and analysis, intelligent tutorials, interactive video and virtual instrumentation. Novel methods in Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) education make extensive use of all the aforementioned techniques to achieve efficient education [1,2].