CORE 2000 and Electronic Laboratory Notebook Tools for Integration and Collaboration in the Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
EMSL Project ID
2072
Abstract
Objectives:1. Provide an information technology environment for collaborative work by students in this junior-senior laboratory sequence that will enable them to learn together across the many disciplines that comprise this multi-disciplinary curriculum.2. Establish a learning environment in the lab that supports comprehensive record keeiping, control of instruments, data archiving, critical analyses and real-time thinking to provide tiemly feedback to modify experimental procedures, etc.3. Generalize the above process in a form that other departments can use to implement such practices in their laboratory curricula.Approaches:1. Use, adapt, and extend the EMSL laboratory notebook and other CORE2000 tools to create the environment described above.2. Implement the in-lab system on lap-top computers having wireless, ethernet linkage to the network, and through the network to the server and thence to the laboratory instruments. These computers will replace the conventional laboratory notebook and will standardize interfaces to the laboratory instruments and integrate their data acquisition systems into our server archive via the ELN.
Project Details
Project type
Exploratory Research
Start Date
2000-10-05
End Date
2002-10-05
Status
Closed
Released Data Link
Team
Principal Investigator
Related Publications
Chonacky N, and M Litt. 2001. "Computers for Integrative Instruction in Bioengineering Labs." Computing in Science & Engineering 3(5):73-83.
Information Technologies in Reform of Engineering Laboratories: An Experimental Development Study