Engaging Engineering Students Through a Remotely Accessible Laboratory

This project is a multi-campus project in which a remotely accessible mobile laboratory system developed at San Francisco State University will be used by engineering students at Cal Poly Pomona. The goal of the remote system is to offer students the opportunity to validate theoretical results in a challenging engineering course with a real-world mechanical system. The mobile laboratory imposes no costs for students. A significant goal of this project is to perform a controlled assessment of the student impact of this remote laboratory to validate subsequent steps such as scaling the remote lab to other CSU campuses. Student assessment will be performed by teaching two concurrent sections of the course (one using the mobile lab, and one not using it) and acquiring survey data.