How You're Engineering the Grand Challenges

	May 10, 2011
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How You're Engineering the Grand Challenges
3 Reasons to Rethink Your Mechanical Test

The Grand Challenges for Engineering push engineers to develop new, life-changing technologies that address some of the most important issues facing society today.

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Share: Device miniaturization, expanding civil structures, and increasing use of composite materials require mechanical engineers to rethink the way they perform structural tests.

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Tech Tips

IP to the Pin Delivers Concurrent Design and Test
The ability for engineers to deploy design building blocks to the device under test and the reconfigurable instrument is called “IP to the pin” because it drives user-defined software IP as close to the I/O pins of next-generation reconfigurable instruments as possible.
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Advantages of NI Data Acquisition
Designed for performance, NI data acquisition devices provide high-performance I/O, industry-leading technologies, and software-driven productivity gains for your application.
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Webcast: Top 5 Measurements for 3D Video
Engineers working on consumer devices that play and display 3D content must find better ways to test the quality of their 3D devices. Learn about the top five tests that will ensure your 3D content is generated as expected.
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Webcast: Making Clean Energy Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
Clean energy may become more abundant than fossil fuels sooner than you think. Hear from green engineering experts who are pushing the technological boundaries using graphical system design for better energy storage, smart grid applications, and clean energy generation.
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Community Highlights

Video: LabVIEW Sucks
Watch this xtranormal video to see a dramatic reenactment of one discussion all LabVIEW developers have at some point in their careers.
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Sweet App: Using Your Noodle for Good
See how one LabVIEW programmer developed an automation program for a machine that makes pasta for humanitarian relief efforts.
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Example Code: Log and Play Sound Through Your PC Speakers
Get this example code that will buffer the analog input and play all acquired data unti you click stop.
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What Does a Loop Example Need?
The best loop examples show loop timing, array indexing on loop tunnels, and early termination of For Loops. What other things do you expect from loop examples?
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What's New

NI Unveils LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics
LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS helps students visually control and program MINDSTORMS NXT robots, while learning the same software used by engineers and scientists.
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Industry’s Highest Performance Digitizers, Codeveloped With Tektronix
If you attended NIWeek 2009, you got a sneak peek of one of the test and measurement industry’s most significant prospects. Learn about this breakthrough technology that takes advantage of the size, modularity, and software integration benefits of PXI.
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NI Extends the CompactRIO Platform for Higher Volume Deployments
The new NI cRIO-9075 and cRIO-9076 chassis and controllers, when combined with LabVIEW, help engineers prototype and deploy custom embedded control and monitoring systems faster and at a lower cost without the need for large engineering design teams.
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Top 5 Green Engineering Case Studies

1. Siemens Simulator for Wind Turbine Tests »

2. NI Tools Keep Ford at the Forefront of Innovation »

3. Students Create Energy-Saving Solar Tracker »

4. Siliken Optimizes Solar Panel Production »

5. Nucor Refines Steel Recycling »

Events and Training
Tell Your Boss: NIWeek Early Bird Registration Ends May 31 »

How Hach Company Benefited From On-Site Training »

May 11 Virtual User Group: Introduction to XControls »

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Question of the Month
Did you know the official name of LabVIEW is Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench? If not, tell us what you thought it stood for. The engineer with the wildest answer wins a prize.
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NI in the Press
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Earth Day: Green Grants Arm Startups With Design Tools »

Featured LabVIEW Add-On
Intelligent Controller Parameterization
This add-on by German company ExpertControl has been awarded the prestigious Compatible with LabVIEW Gold certification. It lets you analyze open-loop model behavior based on measured data and design controllers for immediate use in lab and industrial applications.
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