Virtual labs can be found at Virtual Laboratory.

1. Computer tools: Word and Excel
   
• computer lab - interpretation of temperature and humidity data
• computer lab - reanalysis and presentation of college rankings
2. Statistics, sampling, and estimation
   
• lecture
  
• virtual lab - estimation of how many trees there are in a given area
  
• virtual lab - determination of the topology of a hidden surface
3. Spaghetti Bridge project
   
• lecture - properties of materials
  
• lab - determination of tensile, buckling, and bending strength of spaghetti
  
• lecture - principles of statics, forces in equilibrium
  
• lab - design and construction of spaghetti trusses to meet load criteria
  
• virtual lab - design of a spaghetti truss bridge to hold maximum load
  
• project - construction of a spaghetti bridge (multi-day project)
  
• spaghetti bridge load contest conducted in public at the Maryland Science Center
4. Chemical processes, density instabilities
   
• lecture - principles of diffusion and instability
  
• virtual lab - diffusion processes
  
• virtual lab - examination of instability of multilayer fluids
  
• lab - paper chromatography, salt fingering, distillation
5. Written communication: A Better Mousetrap?
   
• lab - design a cardboard mousetrap, create construction plans for building it
  
• lab - build a cardboard mousetrap based on construction plans
6. Modeling and scaling
   
• lecture - principles of scaling and dimensional analysis
7. Robotics
   
• lecture - introduction to robotics
  
• virtual lab - control of a two segment robotic arm
8. Logic and circuits
   
• lecture - introduction to boolean logic
  
• virtual lab - creation of complex circuits from primitive logic elements
  
• lecture - introduction to circuits using TTL chips
  
• lab - construction of a TTL circuit to guide a robot
9. Remote measurement and error analysis
   
• lecture - calculus of errors and the total differential
  
• lab - estimation of the distance between two unreachable points

Michael Karweit
mjk@jhu.edu
Dept. Chemical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Last modified by mjk@jhu.edu, 9/1/99