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NI News Academic Edition  August 2011  
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Top 5 LabVIEW Student Design Competition Finalists

1. Grand Prize Winner: Using LabVIEW to Develop a 3D Display System From Tsinghua University

2. Runner Up: Haptics for Tumour Detection in Surgery From the University of Leeds

3. Best Use of FPGA Winner: Rotary UAV Autopilot From Konkuk University

4. Finalist: The Pitcher Perfect Tuner From the University of California, San Diego

5. Finalist: Pitch Pressure Analysis and Logging System From Rice University

>> Enter the 2012 competition

 
It's Here, LabVIEW Video Instruction for Students   Beyond Theory and Simulation, Experimentation Succeeds at Stanford 
 It's Here, LabVIEW Video Instruction for Students   Beyond Theory and Simulation, Experimentation Succeeds at Stanford
Use this centralized e-learning experience to help your students learn LabVIEW in a modularized and digestible format.  Whether you assign this experience as homework before Lab I, or you show the videos in class, these self-paced learning materials will help your students find success navigating and programming in LabVIEW, giving you more time to focus on teaching engineering concepts.


You teach engineering, we'll help you teach LabVIEW »
 

A Stanford University pilot course offers students one of the first hands-on experimentation opportunities in an undergraduate communications systems lab. Using NI USRP hardware and LabVIEW graphical system design software, the course received one of the highest overall student ratings at the university's School of Engineering. Learn how you can replicate the same level of engagement in your own course.


Explore integrating this communication system into your lab »

Teaching Tools

Add 20 Instruments to Your Lab… for Free
Get these ready-to-run applications to extend the capabilities of your National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) or NI myDAQ device.

See the instruments and applications »


Get New Labs to Teach Mobile Robotics

Download this set of six experiments to teach mobile robotics concepts including kinematics and localization.

Download the robotics lab exercises »

Teach Vehicle System Dynamics and Control
Follow these tutorials to see how to use LabVIEW for analyzing vehicle kinematics, dynamics, steering, braking, and more.

Read the vehicle system dynamics tutorials »


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Research Lab

Implementing FPGA-Based Feedback Control of a Single Atom With LabVIEW and NI FlexRIO
Read how researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics  built a powerful and versatile custom instrument to implement feedback control for systems as small as a single atom interacting with single photons.

Learn more about the customer application of the year »

Using LabVIEW and PXI to Measure the Temperature and Density of Fusion Plasmas on a Tokamak COMPASS
Learn how the Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR, v.v.i. developed a tokamak measurement system to meet the strict requirements for magnetic confinement of controlled nuclear fusion.

Read about this advanced research finalist »

Using LabVIEW and NI CompactRIO to Develop an Assistive Joystick Rehabilitation Computer Game System for Children With Cerebral Palsy
See how researchers at the University of Leeds developed a dual-user assistive joystick system that enables children to play fun, therapeutic computer games at their schools.

Enjoy the full case study »

Student Corner

Create Your Own Dance Dance Re'VI'lution
Do you like to dance? Learn how to build your own Dance Dance Revolution game using LabVIEW, NI myDAQ, and about $25 worth of parts from your local grocery store. 

Click here for build instructions »

From LEGO® to LabVIEW, How One Engineering Student Paved His Engineering Path
The road leading to a career can be paved with many things. Some student's roads are paved with a thousand library books, some are paved with toy stethoscopes, but some, like Andy Milluzzi's, are paved with LEGO bricks and LabVIEW.

Get inspired, do engineering »

Top 5 Reasons LabVIEW Makes You More Productive When Using Arduino
Ever get a new sensor from SparkFun and want to test it out quickly? Maybe you want to do more processing on that data than the Arduino can provide. Imagine getting that data to your computer and having a graphical user interface for your sensor within minutes of opening that little red box. We have an answer for you.

Learn more about the benefits of LabVIEW and Arduino »
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