Title
A Web Service and Interface for Remote Electronic Device Characterization
Abstract
A lightweight Web Service and a Web site interface have been developed, which enable remote measurements of electronic devices as a “virtual laboratory” for undergraduate engineering classes. Using standard browsers without additional plugins (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or even Safari on an iPhone), remote users can control a Keithley source-measurement unit and monitor results in real time from anywhere on the Internet. As an in-class example, students in a solid-state electronics course used the Web site interface to make real-time transistor measurements. Recommendations are made on how to best integrate the interface into electronics classes based on the student assignment responses. The present interface is flexible and could be expanded to many other devices and instruments. The source code has been openly posted online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/TE.2011.2105488
Education, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Web services,Web sites,computer aided instruction,control engineering computing,educational courses,electronic engineering computing,electronic engineering education,telecontrol,virtual instrumentation,Internet,Keithley source-measurement unit,Web service,Web site interface,remote electronic device characterization,remote measurement,solid-state electronics course,standard browser,student assignment response,undergraduate engineering class,virtual laboratory,Educational technology,engineering education,metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs),online services,virtual laboratory
Journal
54
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0018-9359
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.89
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sumit Dutta180.89
Shreya Prakash280.89
david estrada381.91
Eric Pop45012.07