Technology nowadays enables the remote access to laboratory equipment and instruments via Internet. This is especially useful in engineering education, where students can conduct laboratory experiment remotely. Such remote laboratory access can enable student to use expensive laboratory equipment, which is not usually available to students. In this paper, we present a method of creating a web-b...

The paper presents a novel approach to conduct laboratory experiments in relation with the Control class taught at EPFL. The existing laboratory interface built as a Java applet, which allows students to access experimentation devices locally or remotely, is split into a set of light-weight Web applications or widgets. While achieving the same basic functionalities, these widgets provide user c...

The carbon dioxide concentration in rooms with varying number of people is an important safety and comfort factor. Its control via ventilation is accompanied by two drawbacks the increased energy consumption and dependence on the quality of the fresh air used. Fuzzy logic can ensure energy efficient control of the carbon dioxide concentration. The aim of the present research is to develop a des...

Embedded systems are an integral part of industrial and domestic electronics necessitating educational institutions and other training providers to offer advanced embedded system courses. Eflective teaching in this area requires an interdependent approach combining theoretical material underpinned by practical laboratory experiments and individualized tutoring. Increasingly the courses on offer...

We use Mechanical Turk's diverse participant pool to conduct online bargaining games in India and the US. First, we assess internal validity of crowdsourced experimentation through variation of stakes ($0, $1, $4, and $10) in the Ultimatum and Dictator Game. For cross-country equivalence we adjust the stakes following differences in purchasing power. Our marginal totals correspond closely to la...

The development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is a complex process that usually needs different sub-process like simulation, implementation and experimentation. Frequently these processes are disconnected among them and require rewriting the code increasing the probability of error. This paper presents an hybrid control architecture, named OOCAA, for an underwater agent. The OOCAA, Object...

æ The evaluation of Web-based educational environments, as with other software, depends highly on the evaluation instruments used and on the position of the evaluation in the design cycle. In this article, we present a usecase of a summative evaluation of a training environment that allows small groups of students to conduct hands-on experimentation sessions with local and remote access to labo...

Exploratory experimentation and high-throughput molecular biology appear to have considerable affinity for each other. Included in the latter category is metagenomics, which is the DNA-based study of diverse microbial communities from a vast range of non-laboratory environments. Metagenomics has already made numerous discoveries and these have led to reinterpretations of fundamental concepts of...

Continuous experimentation and A/B testing is an established industry practice that has been researched for more than 10 years. Our aim to synthesize the conducted research. We wanted find core constituents of a framework continuous solutions are applied within field. Finally, we were interested in challenges benefits reported experimentation. forward snowballing on known set papers identified ...