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The iLabs Project
iLabs harness the Internet and enable students to use real instruments via remote online laboratories. Conducting experiments motivates students; it also causes them to learn more effectively. Experiments allow a student to compare reality with simulations, collaborate with each other, and follow their curiosity. Yet, significant expense, space and safety considerations prevent many engineering classes from including lab components. By providing online access to remote laboratories, MIT is delivering the educational benefits of hands-on experimentation both to our own students and to students anywhere, at any time. iLabs began with the microelectronics WebLab, where students can test fragile, microelectronic devices. Now, this concept of online experimentation has extended to other disciplines, creating seven MIT online laboratories to date. These include a chemical reactor, mechanical structures, a chemical engineering heat exchanger, a civil engineering shake table, a polymer recrystallization experiment, and a photovoltaic weather station. | Getting Started
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