Preliminary Program subject to change
18J05 New Technologies for Experimentation over the Internet
OverviewEngineering education and training programs are increasingly offering Internet access to systems of engineering interest to students or trainees located in geographically remote sites. The goal is to permit the remote user to manipulate a local host system, causing responses that can be transmitted to the user?s computer in the form of numerical data, video images, audio streams, or graphical data. The local systems of interest could involve physical hardware (such as heat-exchangers, tanks that can be filled with liquid, etc.), or simulation software (such as a program that simulates a distillation column, a chemical reactor, an inverted pendulum, etc.). The former is referred to as remote experimentation while the later is referred as virtual experimentation. In all cases the experiment must be carried over the Internet using specialized interfaces or web browsers. This session emphasizes papers that present recent advances in the technology of experimentation over the Internet in remote and virtual modes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the real-time control manipulation of equipment, and the execution of experiments of engineering relevance using simulation tools. Priority will be given to topics that present research or teaching-related developments that feature the creative use of new or emerging technologies.
Primary SponsorResearch and New Technology Committee (18j)

Chair

Oscar D. Crisalle
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
P.O.Box 116005
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Gainesville, FL 32611-6005
Phone Number: 1 (352) 392-5120
Fax Number: 1 (352) 392-9513
Email: crisalle@che.ufl.edu

CoChair

Edward P. Gatzke
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Swearingen Engineering Center
301 Main St.
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone Number: (803) 777-1159
Fax Number: (803) 777-8265
Email: gatzke@sc.edu
A Suite of Web-Accessible Experiments for Teaching Heat Transfer
Clark K. Colton1, Kenneth A. Smith1, William H. Dalzell1, Anna Pisania1, David Saylor2, V.Faye McNeil1 and Siddhartha Sen2, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, (2)Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Low Cost Experimental Kits for Undergraduate Process Control Education
Christopher E. Long1, Charles Holland1 and Edward P. Gatzke2, (1)Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Swearingen Engineering Center, 301 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208, (2)University of South Carolina, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Swearingen Engineering Center, 301 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208
Design Criteria for Constructing a Web-Accessible Virtual Control Laboratory
Oscar D. Crisalle, Chemical engineering, University of Florida, PO Box 116005Chemical Engineering Department, Chemical Engineering Department, Gainesville, FL 32611-6005, Christopher S. Peek, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, PO Box 116005Chemical Engineering Department, Chemical Engineering Department, Gainesville, FL 32611-6005 and Denis Gillet, Automatic Control Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Ch 1015, Switzerland
Membrane Gas Separation through the Internet
Jim Dolgoff1, Bei Xu1, G. Glenn Lipscomb2, Kevin Pugh1, Svetlana Beltyukova1 and Neville G. Pinto3, (1)University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, (2)Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Toledo, Mail Stop 305, Toledo, OH 43606, (3)Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210012, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012
Web-Based Remote Experiments with a Real Technical Plant in Chemical Engineering Education
Andreas Klein, Christopher Hausmanns and Guenter Wozny, Institute of Process and Plant Technology, Berlin, Germany

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