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Other learning uses
Figure 3: “Rack” Training tool for high voltages and currents
The training tools proposed in this paper present many possibilities as a real time
audiovisual monitoring control tool.
In the classroom via the class or personal computer the access to the hardware project can
be made through the remote control and observed by the audio-visual equipment. This
capability allows the professor to design the class lecture of the day and demonstrate to
the students in real time specific material and observe in any level of detail its application
in the modular real system. Figure 2 shows a computer screen in which the remote control
of the system can be observed and controlled via two cameras. With one camera, top right,
the modular converter or any of the introduced designs in the system can be observed and
with the other camera, bottom right, the operation of the electric machine can be seen and
heard.
The possibility of integrating in the same platform the hardware and software control and
visualization, the theoretical knowledge related with these modular blocks and the
relationship between the hardware design and the commercial components integrated in
it, Fig 2, the opportunity of measuring any variable involved in the project and finally the
capability of utilization from any place and any time make this learning experimental
methodology very realistic for engineering education.
And lastly, the low cost of discrete electronic components permits considering these
training tools as a possible experimental learning tool for distance education.
Proceedings of Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011
Madrid, 4 th - 7 th October 2011