Software Engineering Project—Virtual Instructional Lab Experiments

The key challenges in these projects are:

Realistic simulation of the actual lab: The current designs available on here present only a “success scenario” for developing the virtual lab. The virtual lab rigidly drives the student through a sequence of steps to a successful completion of the lab. However, in real labs the student can make mistakes or follow “blind alleys”. To support student learning, the virtual lab should mimic the real world, allow the student to make the same mistakes and then recover from the mistakes and successfully complete the lab.
Grading based on tracking the student’s performance: All student actions should be tracked and summarized in a single number that reflects student’s understanding of the lab material. This number will be presented to the course instructor for grading.
Assigning partial credit for incomplete work: The simplest solution for lab performance grading is to check the result against the correct solution and assign eithe full credit or none. A more challenging but also more fair approach would be to assign the credit incrementally as the student progresses step-by-step through the lab and assign partial credit in case the correct solution is not reached.

The developers should look for ingenious ways to tackle these challenges.

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Spring 2019 Semester

Team #5: Virtual Digital Logic Design Laboratory

Developed in the Spring 2019 semester by James Ramos, Andy Lee, Deeptanshu Murdeshwar, Christopher Basilio, Daniel Chan, Drew Koskinen, George Melman-Kenny, and Willear Glimniene

Project files, in case you want to install the full software locally on your computer.
[ZIP file; size: approx 34 MBytes]

Spring 2018 Semester

Team #10: Virtual Digital Logic Design Laboratory

Developed in the Spring 2018 semester by Sagar Phanda, Khalid Akash, Dhruvik Patel, Vikas Khan, Joe Cella, and Yiwen Tao

Project files, in case you want to install the full software locally on your computer.
[ZIP file; size: approx 34 MBytes]

The biology lab descriptions are courtesy of Rutgers Department of Biology — General Biology 01:119:101

Fall 2012 Semester

Team #5: Spectrophotometer Laboratory

Developed in the Fall 2012 semester by Bingbing Xu, Chao Han, Junwei Zhao, and Xueyuan Song

Project files, in case you want to install the full software locally on your computer.
[ZIP file; size: approx 20 MBytes]

Spring 2012 Semester

Team #5: Cell Division Laboratory

Developed in the Spring 2012 semester by Cady Motyka, Michael DiLalo, Nicholas Guida, Ryan Cullinane, Steven Lu, and Kevin Miller

Spring 2007 Semester

Developed in the Spring 2007 semester by Manish Chandrasekhar, Emad Kazerani, Raul Lasluisa, Anirudh Sirohi, Michael Snihur, Nakul Suvarnakar, and Chi-Ho Yu

Project files, in case you want to install the full software locally on your computer.
Developed using Adobe Flex and Adobe ActionScript
[ZIP file; size: approx 95 KBytes] — Contains the following files: