Empower the Innovators of Tomorrow

To meet the needs of professors and educators, NI has committed to developing a platform of teaching solutions that will help teachers create the ideal learning environment for engineering education. In 2010, NI created product solutions for courses based on measurements and instrumentation, circuits and electronics, and controls and mechatronics. These solutions give educators the ability to prepare students for today’s engineering challenges through hands-on dynamic learning and real-world examples.

To help educators better prepare tomorrow’s engineers through modern engineering concepts, NI collaborated with Ettus Research, a leader in producing software-defined radios, to develop an RF hardware and software teaching solution. The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) hardware platform from Ettus Research is a family of low-cost, computer-hosted hardware that, when combined with NI LabVIEW software, allows students to experiment with RF and communication applications by processing radio signals for transmission and reception. NI is committed to developing additional solutions for educators to create the ideal learning environment for engineering education in 2011.