Online Laboratory (OnlineLab) at NTU/EEE

http://onlinelab.ntu.edu.sg/onlinelab.htm

Contact Info: Dr LING Keck Voon || Email: ekvling@ntu.edu.sg || Tel: +65 6790 5567

This page can be found at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ekvling/onlinelab/

Laboratories are essential components in all engineering and science programmes. Not only do laboratories demonstrate course concepts and ideas, they also bring the theory alive so students can see how unexpected events and natural phenomena affect real-world measurements and control algorithms. However, equipping and maintaining laboratories require significant resources. Thus, our goal is to set up a network of web-based laboratories for the purpose of developing, packaging and delivering high-quality laboratory education and training materials to students anytime and anywhere. An important emphasis in this project is to develop a scalable and reusable OnlineLab system with the necessary administrative and e-learning management support so that the OnlineLab could be deployed in an institutional environment. Click here for more information about our prototype OnlineLab
Join the team. We are constantly looking for suitable candidates (Final year projects, MSc/M.Eng projects) to work on the various components related to the project. If you enjoy software development, LabVIEW, C/C++, Java programming, Linux/Perl/MySQL, or even building simple electronic gadgets, you may find something interesting to do here. Write in to ekvling@ntu.edu.sg.
Download our Posters

Papers, Presentations and Reports

• H. Kong, V.Y. Lak & K.P. Lee, Developing Standard Learning Objects for Assessment, EEE Research 2005, NTU, Singapore.
• H Kong and C.H. Low, Guidelines For Building E-Learning Standards Compliant Learning Management System (LMS), EEE Research 2004, NTU, Singapore
• Bing DUAN, Keck Voon LING, Habib Mir M. HOSSEINI and Robert Kheng Leng GAY, An e-Learning Model for Lab-based Courses, International Journal of Engineering Education. (to appear) [paper]
• Bing Duan, Keck-Voon Ling and Habib Mir M. Hosseini, Developing and Implementing Online Laboratory for Control Engineering Education, ICARCV 2004, Kunming, China, December 2004 (accepted) [paper]
• Bing Duan, Keck-Voon Ling and Habib Mir M. Hosseini, "Developing a Framework for Online Laboratory Learning Objects", Proceedings of WSEAS ICECS and WSEAS E-Activities 2003, Vol, 5, pp. 467-157, Sentosa, Singapore, Dec.7-9, 2003.
• Habib Mir Hosseini, Keck-Voon Ling, Bing Duan, Robert Kheng Leng Gay, " Learning Object Model for Laboratory-Based Lessons", WSEAS Transactions on Computer, Issue 4, Volume 2, Pages 1144-1148, October 2003. Also in Proceedings of the 3rd WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications, Rhodes Island, Greece, November 15-17, 2003.
• LING KV and DUAN B, Presentation to staff from ITE on 22 Sep 2003
• DUAN Bing and LING Keck Voon, Developing a Scalable and Reliable Online Laboratory for Engineering Education, NI Week 2003, 13 to 15 August, 2003, Austin Convention Centre, Austin, TX USA. (Winner of the Academic Category)
• Bahar Riand PASSA and SHUM Ping, Online Optics Lab,  9th National Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (NUROP), 13 September 2003, Singapore.
• Tang Chee Meng and Tang Pei Gek, Internet-Based Laboratories For Engineering Education, AY2002/3 FYP
• OnlineLab Presentation at IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education 2000 (ACE2000), 17-19 December 2000,Gold Coast, Australia.
• Ling KV, Lai YK and Chew KB, An Online Internet Laboratory for Control Experiments, IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education 2000 (ACE2000), 17-19 December 2000, Gold Coast, Australia.
• Beng Wuan's Thesis and Report
• Chia JL and Ling KV, Courseware Development for a Rotary Inverted Pendulum, 5^th National Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme Congress, 11 September 1999.
• FYP99 [Tan Kok Chye & Teo Chun Seng]
• FYP99 [Kelvin Woo & Alfred Lee]
• Seet BC and Ling KV, An Internet-based Laboratory for Control Engineering Education, Proceedings of the 4^th National Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme Congress, 12 September 1998, p.780-783.
• STEP97 Poster, Singapore Science Centre, 1997
• White Paper on OnlineLab (1997)

Related Work

• R. Paster, J. Sanchez and S. Dormido, A XML-based Framework for the Development of Web-based Laboratories Focused on Control Systmes Education, Int. J. Engrg Ed., Vol.19, No.3, pp.445-454, 2003.
• L Hesselinkm, et al, Standford CyberLab: Intermet Assisted Laboratories, Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 1(1), 22-39, Jan-Mar 2003. Link (password needed)
• Dongil Shin, En Sup Yoon, Kyung Yong Lee and Euy Soo Lee, A web-based, interactive virtual laboratory system for unit operations and process systems engineering education: issues, design and implementation, Computer and Chemical Engineering, Vol.26, pp.319-330, 2002.
• International Journal of Distance Education Technologies  ( http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/JDET/ )
• International Journal of Web Services Research  ( http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/JWSR/ )

Ongoing Projects

Project Title	Principal Investigator	Funding
An E-learning Framework for Online Laboratories (May 2004 ?May 2005)	LING Keck Voon	NTU, RGM39/03 ($40K)
Protocol Discovery Interface for Smart Laboratory Platform	LING Keck Voon NG See Kiong (I2R) Anton JR Aendenroomer (SIMTech) LIANG Zhiqian (MEng student)	NTU-I2R-SIMTech project (Ref: U03-E-272B, Sep 2003 ?Apr 2005, S$41,327)
A Knowledge Environment for Interactive E-learning	Robert GAY TEO Chao Boon (PhD Student)

Projects Completed in 2004

Project Title	Principal Investigator	Funding
Client-server Application for Online Laboratory (May 2002-May 2004)	LING Keck Voon	NTU, RGM35/01 ($160k)
Smart Controller for Web-Enabled Monitoring and Control Applications	LING Keck Voon	FYPs
E-learning: Developing Standard-Compliant Contents (July 2003 ?May 2004)	Hinny KONG	FYPs
Virtual lecture theatre and Mobile learning system using PDAs ?/span>(July 2003 ?May 2004)	Yim-Teo Tien Hua	FYPs-

Projects Completed in 2003

Project Title	Principal Investigator	Funding
E-learning: Contents Migration & Management	Hinny KONG	FYPs
E-learning System	Yim-Teo Tien Hua	FYPs
Online Optics Lab	SHUM Ping	UROP
Online Lab for 3D Shape Measurements	Habib Mir Hosseini	FYPs