Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Breaking the Wall to Science Experiments from Home

Arturo Dominguez

Future Learning

We have developed an open platform for remote control of scientific equipment with live video for desktop and mobile devices. Supporting material guides the students through the lab at various levels, up to graduate students. The platform currently focuses on plasma physics but can be easily adapted for other fields. Relevant to the current remote learning environment, this democratizes access to laboratory equipment to institutions typically underserved.

Tags: Education Equity, Learn smart, Education for all, Ed Tech

Arturo Dominguez

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Arturo Dominguez received his B.S. in physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. He did his doctoral work on the development and analysis of a reflectometry system for the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. At the PPPL Science Education Department, as a postdoc and now a Senior Program Leader, he has conducted research on dusty plasmas and the development of plasma demos, particularly, the merging of online learning tools and actual lab experiments.

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