[Crosstalk] IAP Event: LabVIEW Educational Series

[James Cain]

This IAP event may be of interest to anyone in the MIT community  
interested in bringing research grade tools into the classroom and  
educational environment.  For more information and/or registration  
check the link at the bottom of the page.


Sponsorship:
This event is is being cosponsored by Academic Computing, Nuclear  
Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science departments and National Instruments.

TITLE
LabVIEW Basics - Monday, January 29th - Wednesday January 31st.
LabVIEW Virtual Instrumentation in Biomedical Engineering - Thursday,  
February 1st
MultiSim & Using LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation - Friday,  
February 2nd

Time
The event runs Monday January 29th - Friday, Feb. 2nd.  from 9:30 AM  
- 4:30 PM.

Location
32-144

Notes:
Pre-registration is requested for participants (see registration link  
below).  Students are encouraged to bring their own laptops, for  
those without, demonstration laptops will be available with  
preference given to those who have pre-registered.


Description:
Monday - Wednesday: LabVIEW Basics
LabVIEW is a graphical programming language designed for scientists  
and engineers to simplify the programming process and increase  
productivity in the areas of design, prototype, and measurement.   
This workshop will introduce the LabVIEW environment, its features,  
dataflow programming, and common LabVIEW architectures. This will  
combine theory and practice on developing test and measurement, data  
acquisition, controls, data-logging, and measurement analysis  
applications.

Thursday Morning (9:30 am - 12:30 pm): Virtual Instrumentation in  
Biomedical Engineering

Description:
- How to use Virtual Instrumentation in Teaching and Learning  
Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering education should teach students both the  
basics of acquiring and processing physiological signals and how they  
can be utilized in real world clinical applications. This session  
will talk about built-in LabVIEW functions that facilitate this  
effort, and illustrate this with CleveLabs' BioRadio wireless  
physiological signal acquisition hardware technology.  During the  
final hour of the morning session, you will learn to use the BioRadio  
and CleveLabs software by completing hands on physiological signal  
acquisition and gain an understanding of how LabVIEW can be utilized  
to collect, process, display, and store the biomedical data.

Thursday Afternoon (1:30pm - 4:30pm): How to use Virtual  
Instrumentation in Biomedical Engineering Research

Description:
Explore the use of virtual instrumentation for hypothesis  
verification through theoretical and  experimental procedures,  
concept, prototyping, etc. (from acquiring data in clinical research  
to deploying a device).  During this session we will demonstrate how  
integrating the BioRadio hardware and LabVIEW software for virtual  
instrument development can increase flexibility and open up new  
research possibilities for your biomedical engineering research  
laboratory.  Topics will include sensors for physiological  
measurements and signal conditioning.

Friday Morning (9:00 am - 11:00 am): Introduction to MultiSim

Description:
The presentation will cover the concept of using Virtual  
Instrumentation as an integrated part of the circuit design  
process.   By combining the benefits of circuit simulation (SPICE,  
FPGA) with Virtual Instrumentation, design engineers are able to  
seamlessly tie circuit behavior into the rest of the design process  
for implementing measurements, performing virtual design verification  
and manufacturing testing and facilitating control algorithm  
development.

Friday Afternoon (1:00 pm - 3:00 pm): Using LabVIEW Control Design  
and Simulation

Description:
Learn the tools available for modelling a system, control design, and  
simulation.

Feel free to bring your project ideas or questions.


Registration Link: (preregistration is preferred )

http://rho.ni.com/hm?g=1.lg5np.3yz6.rs.0.t9yyu.1r280&h=1


Contact information:
andrew.watchorn at ni.com        Senior Academic Field Engineer,  
National Instruments
jrcain at mit.edu                         Educational Technology  
Consultant, Academic Computing


James R Cain
Educational Technology Consulting
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, DUE MIT
245 Massachusetts Avenue, N42-250J
Cambridge, MA 02139

617.253.3909