NIWeek Special Focus – Academic Forum and Big Physics Symposium

[jaking]

Over the next two months, we'll feature NIWeek highlights to get you excited about what NIWeek 2011 has to offer.

NIWeek will start on Monday, August 1 for those attending the Academic Forum or the Big Physics Symposium.

On Monday, August 1, National Instruments will host the Academic Forum, a platform for academic professionals to share best practices, discuss the future of engineering and network. The event will include a keynote from Dave Wilson, director of Academic and Corporate Marketing at NI. Wilson will explore the future of engineering education and the innovative technologies that are required to effectively prepare students for the challenges of tomorrow.

Other Academic Forum highlights include:

• LabVIEW, the NI USRP, and Implications for Software-Defined Radio – Sachin Katti, a professor at Stanford University, will explore the use of virtual instrumentation to rapidly create real-time communication systems demonstrations for the classroom and laboratory settings
• Biomedical Engineering: Measurements to Design – Sherman Fan and Aileen Huang-Saad, professors at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, will showcase a sequence of measurements-to-design courses that help students create solutions for their medical school
• Control with CompactRIO – Galen King, a professor at Purdue University, will explain how the mechanical engineering department uses CompactRIO to teach students about control theory and how this method may be picked up by other departments such as aerospace

Also on Monday, NI will host the 5th annual Big Physics Symposium. The symposium brings together scientists, researchers and specialized vendors to network and discuss best practices and instrumentation strategies that can be applied in control, measurement and diagnostics. Ryotaro Tanaka, director of Controls and Computing Divison at JASRI/Spring-8, will give a keynote, “Adapting the Accelerator Control System – How Do We Meet the Demands,” that explains advanced accelerator operations. 

Big Physics Symposium sessions include:

• High Reliability and Availability Systems for Control Needs – Alessandro Masi, senior control engineer at CERN, will examine the methodology and results of a comparative study of the PXI and VME platforms
• COTS Instrumentation for Advanced Steady-State Data Acquisition and Storing System – Hideya Nakanishi, associate professor at the National Institute for Fusion Science, will discuss the LHD, a superconducting fusion experimental device that demonstrates steady-state plasma operation
• Putting NI Platforms to the Test: Quality Systems and Services – NI Vice President of Quality and Continuous Improvement Andy Krupp will present relative initiatives, outcomes and progress of the design and testing in the NI reliability lab

>> Register for NIWeek.