EPE Association: EPE-PEMC 2004 - Topic 16-4: Distance education

EPE-PEMC 2004 - Topic 16-4: Distance education
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Distance Teaching Of Electrical Power Engineering Via Matlab Web Server
By A. M. Abdel-Hamid, A. S. Zein El-Din, B. Tibken [View]
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Abstract: Distance teaching has been widespread in the last two decades. Nowadays, it is more comfortable to establish a distance teaching organization than it was before few years ago. The revolutionary outgrowth in the field of Internet and software facilities has encouraged to set up such organizations with minimum costs. However, it seems to be a trend even for traditional universities to systematize its own distance teaching programs. This is not only important to enable a large number of people who are not able, for different reasons, to join regular educational institutes, but also to modernize its regular system. Now the question is: Can Distance teaching be efficient in practical fields of education, like electrical power engineering, as it is proved to be for theoretical fields?. As an answer, this paper deals with the possibilities, advantages, and benefits of implementing distance teaching in the field of electrical power engineering. At first the paper underline the technical requirements for installing a MATLAB Web Server environment which is able to be implemented in the teaching process. Then, a thoroughly tested case studies ranging from easy circuit topologies to sophisticated research problems. The presented case studies will show how efficient is MATLAB with its rich Toolboxes to establish a stand alone Distance teaching system. Such a system which depends only on the Internet and the Web Server can be implemented even to establish visual experiments. This will, of course, overcome the drawback of the absence of real Labs in the education process.

EPE-PEMC 2004 - Topic 16-4: Distance education
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	Distance Teaching Of Electrical Power Engineering Via Matlab Web Server By A. M. Abdel-Hamid, A. S. Zein El-Din, B. Tibken	[View] [Download]
Abstract: Distance teaching has been widespread in the last two decades. Nowadays, it is more comfortable to establish a distance teaching organization than it was before few years ago. The revolutionary outgrowth in the field of Internet and software facilities has encouraged to set up such organizations with minimum costs. However, it seems to be a trend even for traditional universities to systematize its own distance teaching programs. This is not only important to enable a large number of people who are not able, for different reasons, to join regular educational institutes, but also to modernize its regular system. Now the question is: Can Distance teaching be efficient in practical fields of education, like electrical power engineering, as it is proved to be for theoretical fields?. As an answer, this paper deals with the possibilities, advantages, and benefits of implementing distance teaching in the field of electrical power engineering. At first the paper underline the technical requirements for installing a MATLAB Web Server environment which is able to be implemented in the teaching process. Then, a thoroughly tested case studies ranging from easy circuit topologies to sophisticated research problems. The presented case studies will show how efficient is MATLAB with its rich Toolboxes to establish a stand alone Distance teaching system. Such a system which depends only on the Internet and the Web Server can be implemented even to establish visual experiments. This will, of course, overcome the drawback of the absence of real Labs in the education process.