Teaching Tools

Webcast: Hands-on Learning with NI ELVIS
Discover the latest education innovations for the NI hands-on virtual instrumentation platform for measurements, electronics, control design, and microcontroller courses.
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Introduction to LabVIEW Interactive Training CD
Do you want to use LabVIEW in one of your courses but need training to do it? This CD features step-by-step instructions for hands-on learning and an interactive user interface that merges audio, animated illustrations, and text to suit your level of expertise and learning style.
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Research Lab

LabVIEW FPGA Used in MEMS Control Research
Using the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module and the NI PXI 7831R module, Professor Thomas Kurfess and Professor Levent Degertekin, from the Georgia Institute of Technology George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, implemented parallel, extremely high-speed control of an array of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices.
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NI CompactRIO Measures Magnetization Characteristics
Using NI LabVIEW 7.1 and several CompactRIO modules, Virginia Tech developed a double salient machine with highly nonlinear characteristics to measure and eliminate the eddy current losses and resistance changes due to heating and measurement of the magnetization characteristics of the switched reluctance (SR) motor.
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Student Corner

NEW! LabVIEW Zone Student Corner
Find easy-to-use, powerful tools and resources to help you succeed in class today so you can excel tomorrow.
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Featured Student Team: Perius
Captain Basile, the six-legged pneumatic running robot from Team Perius at Sherbrooke University runs its way to victory at the SAE Walking Machine Challenge.
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Around Campus

NI Technical Symposium
Keep pace with accelerating technology and trends in virtual instrumentation at the NI Technical Symposium.
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ASME 2004, Nov. 17-20, in Anaheim, CA
See live hands-on demonstrations and visit with NI technical experts to see virtual instrumentation in action at booth 515.
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