The College will have a Mobile Laboratory for on-line practice

This year, the College of Exact Sciences and Technology at UNSE will begin to feature a mobile laboratory for the following academic majors in: Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering and  Electromechanical Engineering.   This feature will be operational 24 hours, seven days a week, and will be used both by our students, by all international students who are pursuing these academic careers from different European Universities.

In order to accomplish this project, a delegation from the FCEyT made up by our Dean Eng. Hector Paz, Eng. Ruben Fernandez and Eng. Mario Gomez, from the Department of Electronics, who visited the University of Karlskrona, at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.  This institution is implementing the Project VISIR Erasmus +, in which our institution is heavily participating. 

This project, funded by the Erasmus program of the European Union,        Involves the installation of mobile laboratories, electrical and electronic circuits. These laboratories have the distinction of making actual measurements, allowing students to undertake their practices so on-line, Internet remote control equipment. In this way, students get identical results that have been obtained in a practical laboratory.

In Visir laboratories, students are able not only to perform experiments on a remote - mobile fashion, but also to learn from the actual preparation of remote systems that are established and guided within the limits set by the teachers and acquire hands-on experience.  Currently, the Vizier community is participating in the universities of Spain, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, India and Georgia, and soon will be available in Brazil and Argentina. It is noteworthy that in our country, only two universities will be part of this community.

This project began in 1999, to complement laboratory practice on a higher accessibility. The proposal consists of a laboratory online, inexpensive, for electrical and electronic experiments, and can be used by many students or student teams at the same time. Today there are laboratories of electronics and signal processing, security, radio, operating online; they are used for regular courses for students who may be on campus or outside of it. Its use also allows teachers to enrich the curriculum in theory and practice; encourage student autonomy, increase knowledge acquisition and retention; increase the success rate of students in the procedures for continuous evaluation; besides allowing these associated institutions to encourage the study of technical careers. The impact of such a practice in these laboratories is also about providing the labor market with highly qualified professionals; and reduce the drop-out rate of students in these academic programs.

Immediately after the funds have been received from Erasmus, our faculty will start the purchase of equipment in order to install the remote-mobile laboratory equipped with online access. It is estimated that this program will be available by mid-year. And it is worth noting that its use is not only limited to students of our Faculty, it is also accessible to other institutions of higher learning, high schools and technical schools.