NIWeek 2011 - Academic Sessions

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National Instruments is hosting NIWeek, the industry's premier event on graphical system design that attracts more than 3,000 of the world's brightest engineers, educators, students, and scientists.

NIWeek 2011 opens August 1 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, for four days of interactive technical sessions, targeted summits, hands-on workshops, and exhibitions on the latest developments for design, control, automation, manufacturing, and test. If you’re interested in attending NIWeek, or would like more information, you can visit the website here.

A few weeks ago I promised you an inside look at NIWeek, so I have compiled some of the Academic Technical Sessions that you may find particularly interesting:

Using NI ELVIS, Multisim, LabVIEW, and NI myDAQ in Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Learn how the University of Manchester incorporates hands-on learning throughout the curriculum. Using the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), NI myDAQ, Multisim, and LabVIEW, Dr. Danielle George discusses how students implemented a dynamic learning environment for students in the lecture course, in the laboratory, and off campus.

Waterloo Labs Showcase

Four NI summer interns have been building low-cost projects and sharing them with the world over YouTube to the delight of the student, hobbyist, and tinkerer communities. Meet the team and see what they have been up to, what challenges they faced, and how they pulled off these projects.

You may recognize Waterloo Labs as the Engineers who brought us cool projects like “Play NES with your eyes”:

Biomedical Engineering: Measurements to Design

The University of Michigan biomedical engineering program has created a measurements-to-design sequence of courses to train students on LabVIEW in the measurements course and help them create solutions for the medical school in their senior design and masters design courses.

Using CompactRIO to Teach Renewable Energy Concepts

Learn how United Arab Emirates (UAE) University is incorporating graphical system design to teach and reinforce key green engineering concepts such as building integrated photovoltaic systems. Explore how students build a real-world replica of a house and use technologies such as CompactRIO with LabVIEW to monitor photovoltaic arrays for performance and fault detection.

LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit (DaNI) Lab Exercises

DaNI is a preassembled robot that uses LabVIEW and existing libraries to quickly create a moving, sensing robotic vehicle. Students can focus more on learning various robotics concepts such as obstacle avoidance, localization, and path planning. Learn about the development of these lab exercises and the results of the first class that used them, and view a demo of the exercises.