Developing web accessible laboratories for introductory systems and control using student projects

This paper will make two distinct contributions. First it will give some reflections on the practice of using student projects, both undergraduate and MSc, for developing teaching resources. Of particular interest is the both the utility of the resources and also the learning experience for the project student. The second contribution focuses specifically on a recent student project developing web accessible laboratories, both virtual and remote. There is some discussion of the pedagogy behind the laboratories and also detailed software specifications and reflections on how the laboratories in Sheffield are constructed. Finally, there is some discussion of how to log student participation which we believe is little discussed in the literature.