Diseño e implementación de laboratorios virtuales

Abstract

It’s significant the growth in the number of students at Civil Engineering program in distance mode, part of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada Military (607 active students at september 10, 2010). This situation requires the decentralization of activities that can be performed remotely too. Currently, practices at the laboratories of Civil Engineering at the University are only for students in traditional face system, that means students have to go to the University. Moving involves a cost for the student and the saturation in the labs at established hours, reduction of students tests (cause of the amount of material used), the inability to perform the tests complete due to the time (depending on material) and the lack of space for the massive attention of students. This situation force the student to see how develops the test results lab type and data processing. This problem is not evident only in the distance mode, also in attendance. The most important fact of a lab practice is that each student interacts with the process of elaboration, see different results and can analyze, discuss and process the results obtained by setting the appropriate standard with appropriate information, as the specification or theory used. The development of this product is a software, based on the numerical modeling of grain size parameters, temperature, Marshall asphalt design and type of material, inertia, load type and type of support for the beam bending test. The University will be the owner of software, which seeks to provide experimentation tool and provision for the training of engineers for Colombia and whole Word, also allows optimal idea of such trials.