Examinando por Autor "Castro, Manuel"

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    A federation of remote laboratory OERs grid of VISIR systems through PILAR Project
    (Kassel University Press GmbH, 2020-04-08) García Loro, Félix; Blázquez Merino, Manuel; Baizán, Pablo; Plaza, Pedro; Macho Aroca, Alejandro; Fernández, Ricardo-Martín; San Cristóbal Ruiz, Elio; Castro, Manuel; Orduña Fernández, Pablo
    Today's educational needs require tools with neither geographical nor temporal restrictions. These tools also have to help students to reach the knowledge and provide them with the skills that the labor market demands. To achieve this goal, the technical areas rely on the contribution that laboratory practices provide. However, traditional laboratory practices, carried out in person at the institution, are limited due to the requirements of both their exploitation and their provision. For this reason, educational institutions have opted for remote laboratories (RLs) as the educational tool to provide the benefits of experimentation in real environments, either as an accompaniment to face-to-face activities or as the only mean of experimentation in real environments. Although RLs provide exclusive benefits <<24/7 availability, integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ITCs), etc. >>, they also present limitations derived from the technology involved <>; PILAR project << Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of VISIR>> was conceived under this premise. PILAR proposes a federation of 5 Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR) systems. VISIR is a RL for wiring and measuring electrical and electronics circuits in a simulated workbench. PILAR aims to create a grid of laboratories shared and accessed by all participants, expanding and empowering the existing systems to a new level of service and capacity.
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    A sustainable approach to laboratory experimentation
    (Association for Computing Machinery, 2019-10-16) Felgueiras, Carlos; Costa, Ricardo; Alves, Gustavo R.; Viegas, Clara; Fidalgo, André; Marques, María Arcelina; Lima, Natércia; Castro, Manuel; García-Zubía, Javier; Pester, Andreas; Kulesza, Wlodek; Silva, Juarez Bento da; Pavani, Ana; Pozzo, María Isabel; Marchisio, Susana; Fernández, Rubén; Oliveira, Vanderli; Schlichting, Luis C. M.
    Sustainability is currently a general concern in society and in particular in the use of laboratories for educational purposes. Although laboratories are unavoidable facilities for education, they often produce waste resulting from students' experiments. To contribute for sustainable solutions in education, the use of remote laboratories instead of the traditional hands-on laboratories should be considered in every engineering course. It is precisely this aspect that is discussed in the current paper. Some comments about the importance of sustainability in education are made. Later, it is described the use of a remote laboratory named VISIR in a course held at the Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering, for the conduction of an electronic experiment named Schmitt Trigger. At the end, some comments about the contribution of this remote lab for sustainability in education, are provided.
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    VISIR: experiences and challenges
    (2012-02-16) Tawfik, Mohamed; San Cristóbal Ruiz, Elio; Martín, Sergio; Gil, Charo; Pesquera Martín, Alberto; Losada De Dios, Pablo; Díaz Orueta, Gabriel; Peire Arroba, Juan; Castro, Manuel; García-Zubía, Javier; Hernández Jayo, Unai; Orduña Fernández, Pablo; Angulo Martínez, Ignacio; Costa-Lobo, Cristina; Marques, María Arcelina; Viegas, Clara; Alves, Gustavo R.
    It is of crucial importance the integration of practical sessions in engineering curricula owing to their significant role in understanding engineering concepts and scientific phenomena. However, the lack of practical sessions due to the high costs of the equipment and the unavailability of instructors has caused a significant declination in experimentation in engineering education. Remote laboratories have tackled this issues providing online reusable and shared workbenches unconstrained by neither geographical nor time considerations. Thereby, they have extremely proliferated among universities and integrated into engineering curricula over the last decade. This contribution compiles diverse experiences based on the deployment of the remote laboratory, Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR), on the practices of undergraduate engineering grades at various universities within the VISIR community. It aims to show the impact of its usage on engineering education concerning the assessments of students and teachers as well. In addition, the paper address the next challenges and future works carried out at several universities within the VISIR community.