摘要：AbstractVirtual instruments are used nowadays for measurement and control, but also as educational tools for students, being well accepted and stimulating innovation in the process of exploring the real world. It leads to discover interrelations, the phenomena are easier undersold and theory is better assimilated. The tool can be used in real laboratories as well as in virtual laboratories, constituting a support for self-learning or distance learning. This article presents how virtual instruments can be used in engineering education, with examples from our Vibration Laboratory, together with a qualitative research regarding the perception of students to this issue.
