Students Use NI LabVIEW to Design Low-Cost Medical Devices

August 2009
Your Resource for Research, Teaching, and Learning with NI LabVIEW		ni.com/academic

In This Issue

Top Five New Features in LabVIEW 2009

1. VI Snippets Tool »

2. Create Recursive VIs »

4. Parallel For Loops »

5. 3D Math Plots »

Explore What's New in LabVIEW 2009 for Teaching and Research		The Mashavu Project - Solving the Worldwide Healthcare Crisis

LabVIEW 2009 helps users explore algorithm engineering, an approach for engaging exploration, as well as productive development. Use simplified prototyping to improve academic teaching and research involving signal processing, analysis, control, communications, robotics, measurements, instrumentation, and more. Explore LabVIEW 2009 »		The goal of the Mashavu Project is to connect patients in East Africa to physicians worldwide, improving their access to primary healthcare. Explore how students at Penn State University used NI LabVIEW and data acquisition products to design and prototype a solution for the worldwide healthcare crisis. Watch and learn more »

Teaching Tools

Introducing the LabVIEW VI Snippet

VI Snippets are a new way to store, share, and reuse small portions of LabVIEW code. VI Snippets combine the portability of a screenshot with the functionality of a VI file by embedding LabVIEW code in a standard PNG image.

Create a VI Snippet now »

A Hands-On Approach to Controls and Mechatronics Using NI LabVIEW, NI ELVIS, and Quanser

View the comprehensive webcast that discusses current trends in controls and mechatronics and how NI and Quanser work together to meet the demands and set the trends within engineering education.

Watch the webcast »

Start Planning for NIWeek 2010 and Academic Forum

It is never to early to register for the worldwide graphical system design conference that attracts more than 3,000 of the brightest engineers, educators, and scientists. Start planning today for NIWeek 2010 and the Academic Forum.

Explore the events »

Research Lab

Submissions and Winners of the 2009 Graphical System Design Achievement Awards

A judging committee of more than 30 NI technical experts and industry publication editors judged 112 submissions from 187 authors in more than 25 countries and selected the contest finalists and winners.

Read the submissions »

Create Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with NI LabVIEW

Learn how you can add NI wireless hardware to any Windows or embedded LabVIEW Real-Time system to build a complete wireless solution.

Learn how to build your system »

Deploy Text-Based Math to Real-Time Hardware with the LabVIEW MathScript RT Module

The LabVIEW MathScript RT module adds math-oriented, textual programming to LabVIEW through a native compiler for .m files. This functionality has been re-engineered for optimal performance in a real-time OS.

View a tutorial on the module »

Student Corner

FRC Partners with NI to Provide Next-Generation Robot Control System

FIRST is the largest robotics program in the world, impacting and inspiring approximately 200,000 students each year by giving them hands-on, real-world experience with science and engineering concepts by building robots. For its major competition, FIRST chose the NI CompactRIO system as the controller.

View the video to learn more »

The 2009 Student Design Showcase

At NIWeek 2009, more than 60 students from 18 countries submitted their design projects. View all of these projects and start planning your own submission for NIWeek 2010.

View student submissions »

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