iLab Project at MIT
The iLabs project website has moved to http://ilab.mit.edu/wiki
Please register for an iLab Account at http://openilab.mit.edu and run the iLab microelectronics experiments.
Faculty interested in using iLabs in their courses should contact the iLabs Project Team (ilab@mit.edu) and request a group account.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Any questions or comments should be directed to the iLabs Project Team at ilab@mit.edu .
About iLabs
iLabs is dedicated to the proposition that online
laboratories – real laboratories accessed through the Internet - can enrich
science and engineering education by greatly expanding the range of experiments
that students are exposed to in the course of their education. Unlike
conventional laboratories, iLabs can be shared across a university or across the
world. The iLabs vision is to share expensive equipment and educational
materials associated with lab experiments as broadly as possible within higher
education and beyond.
iLab teams have created remote laboratories at MIT in
microelectronics, chemical engineering, polymer crystallization, structural
engineering, and signal processing as case studies for understanding the complex
requirements of operating remote lab experiments and scaling their use to large
groups of students at MIT and around the world.
Based on the experiences of the different iLab development teams The iLabs Project is developing a suite of software tools
that makes it efficient to bring online and manage complex laboratory
experiments. The iLabs Shared Architecture has the following design goals:
- Minimize development and management effort for users and providers of remote labs
- Provide a common set of services and development tools.
- Scale to large numbers of users worldwide
- Allow multiple universities with diverse network infrastructures to share access
