Curriculum Resources

Lab Share

Professors Sharing Best Practices for Virtual Instrumentation Labs

Lab Share is a forum for collaboration between educators to enhance engineering and science education by sharing their successes with others. LabVIEW-based labs and their lab manuals, available for download exactly as they are used at the school, can be shared to expand the educational experience with virtual instrumentation. Lab Share is getting started with lab contributions from our friends at UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley and will grow into a dynamic community of virtual instrumentation labs for education. Check back often for new postings.

University of California, Santa Barbara

Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
Professor David Paden
ME 104 - Sensors and Actuators

Lab 1: Introduction to LabVIEW
Lab 2: Hall Effect Sensors
Lab 3: Strain Gage Sensors
Lab 4: Open Loop Analog Control
Lab 5: Frequency Response
Lab 6: Closed Loop Analog Control of DC Motor Velocity
Lab 7: Open Loop Digital Control of a DC Motor
Lab 8: Stepper Motors

University of California, Santa Barbara

Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
Professor David Paden
ME 105 - Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

Lab 1: Temperature Measurements
Lab 2: Introduction to Transient Conduction and Convection
Lab 3: Tensile Test
Lab 4:
Lab 5: Vibration
Lab 6: Bicycle Experiment
Lab 7: Pipe Flow

University of California, Berkeley

Mechanical Engineering
ME 107 - Experimentation and Measurement

Lab 1: Introduction to LabVIEW
Lab 2: Acoustics
Lab 3: LDV/Fluid Flow Stand Characterization
Lab 4: Heat Transfer
Lab 5: Vibrating Beam Analysis