Weblabs at MIT A Retrospective Perspective
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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?
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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Weblabs at MITA Retrospective Perspective
Clark K. ColtonDepartment of Chemical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, 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
Rest of World Jesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton1993-95
MIT
Jame TrevelyanUniversity of Western Australia
Jim HenryUniversity of Tennessee
1995-2000 Others...
Microelectronics Weblab Animation Weblab
2000-02 Microsoft iCampus Grant to MIT (35 projects/5 yr)iLabs Project: Jesus del Alamo PIObjective: Demonstrate feasibility of diverse weblabshttp://swiss.csail.mit.edu/projects/icampus/projects/ilab.html
Transistor electronic characteristics 15 sec
Flow meter calibration by bucket and stopwatch
Process control on the internet with Labview
Telerobots on the internet
A Brief History of MIT Weblabs
Rest of World Jesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton1993-95
MIT
Jame TrevelyanUniversity of Western Australia
Jim HenryUniversity of Tennessee
1995-2000 Others...
Microelectronics Weblab Animation Weblab
2000-02 Microsoft iCampus Grant to MIT (35 projects/5 yr)iLabs Project: Jesus del Alamo PIObjective: Demonstrate feasibility of diverse weblabshttp://swiss.csail.mit.edu/projects/icampus/projects/ilab.html
Microelectronics iLab iLab Heat Transfer Project
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/heatexchange-0522.html
Transistor electronic characteristics 15 sec
Flow meter calibration by bucket and stopwatch
Process control on the internet with Labview
Telerobots on the internet
Three labs in three subjects Three heat exchangers
Conduction, convection, radiation
http://heatex.mit.edu
Exchanger performanceProcess control
Five experiments
A Brief History of MIT WeblabsJesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton
2002
MIT
>200 reports
Rest of World
iLabs Project: Steve Lerman Co-PICenter for Educational Computing Initiativeshttp://icampus.mit.edu/iLabs/architecture/
A Brief History of MIT WeblabsJesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton
2002
MIT
>200 reports iLabs Project: Steve Lerman Co-PICenter for Educational Computing Initiativeshttp://icampus.mit.edu/iLabs/architecture/
2005 iLabs - AfricaSteve Lerman and Jesus del Alamo, Co-PIGrant from Carnegie Corporation of New York
Rest of World
A Brief History of MIT WeblabsJesus del Alamo Clark K. Colton
2002
MIT
>200 reports
2005 iLabs - AfricaSteve Lerman and Jesus del Alamo, Co-PIGrant from Carnegie Corporation of New York
2008 Funding winding down: One ProgrammeriLab Archecture Software
Rest of World
Batch: In use in AfricaInteractive: To be tested at MIT (heat exchanger)
and Univ. W. Australia (fluid mechanics)
iLabs Project: Steve Lerman Co-PICenter for Educational Computing Initiativeshttp://icampus.mit.edu/iLabs/architecture/
Jesus del Alamo (EECS)PI Steve Lerman (CECI)
Co-PI Microsoft iCampus GrantiLabs Project
iLabs Software Architecture Development
iLabs Hardware and Implementation in Classes
Carnegie CorporationiLabs in Sub-SaharaAfrica
InternetAnimation
iLabs Project (Microsoft iCampus)
Salary
MIT ChemicalEngineering Dept.
Hardware
Cambridge-MITInstitute
CarnegieCorporation
MIT Weblabs at Other Schools
Microelectronics Heat Exchanger
Heat exchanger performance
Process Control
*
Sub-Sahara Africa
Brown UniversityUniversity of TexasCambridge-MIT Institute (Nigeria)Obafemi Awolowo University
Cambridge-MIT Institute*University of Toledo (Ohio)
Ongoing
Issues and Challenges
Hardware and Software
Quality of components
RobustnessInitial costMaintenance – HardwareMaintenance – Software
Internet DistributionDevelopment of Interactive
Community
Batch vs. interactiveSimple free standingComplex shared
Utility of specific experimentsNarrow or broad applicabilityInfrastructure costsEconomy of scale
Summary of Student Assessments (Heat Transfer for Weblabs)
The weblab was educational. The weblab was fun. I prefer the weblab/hands on experiment.
High agreementModerate agreement50/50 split
Student-grade vs. industrial-grade
architecture
