View Item 

LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing

Access Status
Open access
Authors
Lowe, D.
Murray, S.
Weber, L.
de la Villefromoy, M.
Johnston, A.
Lindsay, Euan
Nageswaran, W.
Nafalski, A.
Date
2009
Type
Conference Paper

Metadata
Show full item record
Citation
Lowe, David and Murray, Steve and Weber, Lothar and de la Villefromoy, Michel and Johnston, Archie and Lindsay, Euan and Nageswaran, Warren and Nafalski, Andrew. 2009. LabShare: Towards a National Approach to Laboratory Sharing, in Kestell, C. and Grainger, S. and Cheung, J. (ed), Proceedings of The 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Dec 6-9 2009, pp. 458-463. Barton, A.C.T.: Engineers Australia.
Source Title
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
Source Conference
The 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
ISBN
School
Department of Mechanical Engineering
URI
Collection
Abstract

Conventional undergraduate engineering laboratories are valuable in terms of their contributions to students learning but are costly to develop and maintain and have extremely low utilisation rates. These issues can be addressed through cross-institutional sharing of laboratories; however this is limited by the overarching requirement that students are located in a centrally located laboratory. In this paper we describe the nature of the challenges and the potential benefits that can be achieved if a solution can be found. A possible solution is the use of remote laboratories that can be accessed across the internet with a suitable model for laboratory sharing that promotes both institutional and individual engagement. We describe the characteristics that such a model should have.