A New Online Laboratory-based Engineering Technology Course in Networks for the Industrial Environment

This paper describes the development of a new online graduate engineering technology course in advanced networks for industrial environments.The course is intended to provide an in-depth overview of high-performance wired and wireless networks for industrial control, communications, and computing.The emphasis is on understanding current and newly emerging network architectures, protocols, and technologies in terms of performance, network services, ease of implementation, maintenance, reliability, risk, and cost.