Web-based interactive virtual laboratory system for unit operations and process systems engineering education

The development of the real educational contents and customized virtual edu cation systems satisfying the needs of specific engineering education domai n is getting more and more research attention in this era of Web and virtua l technologies. By analyzing the characteristics of computer-based educatio nal methods and using the rapidly changing Internet and object technologies , we developed a Web-based, interactive virtual laboratory system for unit operations and process systems engineering education. The proposed system i s expected to overcome many obstacles in performing the unit operations lab oratory at the current setting. More teachwares and experiment suites are b eing added for the extensive, quantitative evaluation on educational effici ency of the proposed system, and the result will be reported at the confere nce. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.