DEVELOPMENT OF VIRCEL: A VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING LABORATORY
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Access to quality hands-on experience is an essential part of engineering instruction. The
laboratory experience is a very vital part of engineering education. Availability of this required
access is however not always given. Through laboratory hands-on experiments, students are able
to develop practical skills such as real-world problem solving, design, communication, teamwork,
independent thinking and creativity, while working in the laboratories. These laboratories with
physical presence of students at the experimental rigs are referred to as the hands-on or
traditional laboratories in most of the literature. But with the advances in ICT during the last three
decades, the simulated and virtual environments have opened up some very innovative
techniques in teaching. Such environments have been explored to meet the objectives of
laboratory work. This has given rise to the development of laboratories referred to as virtual
laboratories. These class of laboratories are essential and come with various advantages, the least
of which is not the ability of learners to study at their own convenience in time and space. This
paper presents a step-wise methodology for the development of one of such virtual laboratories
for communication engineering on the LabVIEW™ platform.
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T Technology (General), TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering