CONDUCTING REMOTE INSTRUCTOR- CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION

Laboratory courses are a vital part of engineering and scientific education and training, but so far, lab courses have been considered impractical for remote education. Lab courses are traditionally conducted at a central location, with student, instructor, and experiment in close proximity to each other. As versatility of communications over the Internet increases, it is desirable to have a method to remotely conduct a lab experiment that allows a student to easily access the experiment from a remote location.