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Design and Implementation of a Remote Laboratory for Heat Transfer Experiments

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The current chapter describes the design and the implementation of a remote laboratory for heat transfer learning purposes. It summarizes the main steps of the work carried out to adapt and redesign the heat exchanger bench to be remotely accessed and controlled. This new device introduced many fundamental aspects of heat transfer, both theoretically and practically. An evaluation procedure was also carried out on this remote lab. This evaluation was focused on some technical and pedagogical aspects. The evaluation results demonstrated that the expected learning outcomes of remote labs seem to be very interesting compared to a conventional lab.

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  1. Higher Institute of Industrial Systems of Gabes (ISSIG), University of Gabes, Gabes, Tunisia

    Ridha Ennetta & Soufiene Bouallègue

  2. College of Engineering, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

    Ibrahim Nasri

  3. Aristote University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos

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  2. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

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  3. University of Colima, Colima, Mexico

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Ennetta, R., Nasri, I., Bouallègue, S., Tsiatsos, T. (2018). Design and Implementation of a Remote Laboratory for Heat Transfer Experiments. In: Auer, M., Azad, A., Edwards, A., de Jong, T. (eds) Cyber-Physical Laboratories in Engineering and Science Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76935-6_14

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