In
15-20 May 2017, two members from College of Science (Dr. Mohammed A. Ibrahem
from Physics Dept. and Dr. Razwan Najimaldeen from Computer Science Dept.,
University of Duhok, have been participated in the workshop for completing the Building
a Remote Experimentation Network for serving higher education teachers and
students in Iraq (REXNet) project, which is supported by the United States
International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) and sponsored by the US–Iraq
Higher Education Partnerships Program (HEPP). This project is a collaboration
between the Oklahoma State University (OSU) and three universities in the
Kurdistan Region of Iraq, namely University of Duhok (UoD), University of Zakho
(UoZ), and Duhok Polytechnic University (DPU). In general, it aims to use
Virtual Labs for serving students and teachers of Physics and computer sciences
departments from those three universities. In addition, it aims to develop an
online virtual laboratory targeting computer science and engineering students.
It is composed of several learning modules of robotics (i.e. Revolute Arm,
Gantry, Automated Gantry, Auto W/point Picking, and Factory).
Overall,
the workshop has hold at the Center for Cyber Physical System (CCPS), in the Department
of Computer Science, College of Arts and Science, Oklahoma State University
(OSU), Oklahoma City, USA. This workshop highlighted to show several interesting
software and a new instrument that are related to online labs (i.e. Unity Lab
Module Tutorials, Virtual Reality power wall Demonstration, HoloLens Demonstration,
and Haptic Demonstration). Furthermore, it included a new Robotic laboratory demo,
given by Dr. Crick from OSU. Finally, for increasing collaborative work and
research activities between Duhok universities and OSU, OSU has perched a new
version of HTC VIVE Headset (Virtual Reality) for University of Duhok, under
the REXNet project grant.
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