A Virtual Laboratory for electrical engineering courses

Abstract

The Curriculum and the employed methods in Technical Universities Education have to be permanently adapted to correspond to the necessities and to benefit from the existent technological opportunities. The increasing power and availability of software and hardware on personal computer (PC) has already begun to change significantly the way engineering subjects are taught and learned. We describe a software-based Laboratory, known as Virtual Laboratory (VL), which we designed to assist and advance Learning efficiency in electrical engineering programs. The paper has the goal to present the undertaken efforts and the obtained results in the modernization of the Signal, Circuits and Signals (SCS) course taught at the University of Pitesti designing the VL, which is we use continuously since 1998.