Virtual Laboratory in the Engineering Education

In die areas of engineering education due to various shortcomings of the traditional laboratories, virtual laboratories have appeared as a potential alter-native to traditional laboratories. Every system - mechanical, electrical, biological- can be accurately described by a mathematical model. The models can be applied in practice because the computers allow us to solve it in a numerically way. In this paper, we focus on the theory of the modeling, applied on the areas of electrical machines. Three key problems are discussed in this application: the purpose, the content and the impact of such a laboratory in studying and learning the scientific and engineering principles of electrical machines areas.