ENGINEERING BULLETIN

Online Experimentation: Emerging Technologies and IoT describes online experimentation, using fundamentally emergent technologies to build the resources and considering the context of IoT. In this context, each online experimentation (OE) resource can be viewed as a “thing" in IoT, uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system, and considered as an object to be sensed and controlled or remotely operated across the existing network infrastructure, allowing a more effective integration between the experiments and computer-based systems.The various examples of OE can involve experiments of different type (remote, virtual or hybrid) but all are IoT devices connected to the Internet, sending information about the experiments (e.g. information sensed by connected sensors or cameras) over a network, to other devices or servers, or allowing remote actuation upon physical instruments or their virtual representations.

  Bauman University (Imperial Moscow Technical School - Moscow State Technical University) is one of the oldest engineering universities in the world. It is considered to have been established in 1830. The Theory of Mechanisms and Machines Department (TMM) of Bauman University enjoys a mechanisms collection of more than 600 items. Models from collections of F. Redtenbacher, F. Reuleaux and A. Clair are part of the collection. These models are known in the scientific and engineering world, but a large part of the range are mechanisms designed by Russian and Soviet scientists and engineers. Unfortunately, some Russian models of the collection were lost, broken or transferred to other institutions. The "Russian models" collection consists of: - Original creations of TMM department scientists and postgraduates - Original creations of Russian and Soviet engineers and scientists - Models reconstructed by our foremen according to foreign scientists' projects - Copies of interesting models Some models were created for pure scientific' interest, other ones were converted into engineering projects and used in real devices. We don't know exactly when the collection was set up. Today its oldest item dates back to 1861. Naturally, while on the subject of the collection aged 150, it would make sense to introduce the history of Bauman University and the TMM Department (earlier Applied Mechanics Department), outline some reasons for the creation of the collection, TMM course contents and mention scientific and pedagogic schools and their founders.