Portable hardware targeted at engineering students
National Instruments (NI) has released the NI MyDAQ portable instrumentation device, which is targeted at students taking university engineering courses. MyDAQ advances engineering education by making it possible for students to experience engineering outside of the laboratory, in their dorm room or anywhere they choose, at any time. The device is designed by NI and features analogue circuits from Texas Instruments, including data converters, amplifiers and interface and power management components.
MyDAQ hardware integrates with the NI Labview graphical development software to help reverse the trend of rising educational costs by giving students hands-on interaction with real analogue circuits, sensor measurements and signal processing for around the price of an engineering textbook. Dr Tony Ambler, chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Texas University in Austin, said: 'Students need exposure to real circuits and hardware, but the problem for engineering professors is trying to meet the increasing cost of providing real electronics with continually tighter budgets.
'NI MyDAQ is inexpensive enough for every student to have their own, plug it into their laptop at home, in the dorm or in the park and experiment with the real electronics all around them, without using lab time or lab equipment,' he added. Compact enough to fit in a student's pocket and powered by USB connection, MyDAQ provides a solution for college engineering professors who want their students to experiment during homework and beyond through a student-owned measurement, signal processing and control device.
MyDAQ bridges the gap between theory and real-world practice by providing students with eight Labview software-based instruments, including a digital multimeter (DMM), an oscilloscope, a function generator, a Bode analyser, a dynamic signal analyser, an arbitrary waveform generator, a digital reader and a digital writer. Students can use these instruments to perform many laboratory-style experiments. When combined with Labview on a PC, MyDAQ delivers a complete solution for the hands-on learning of core concepts in engineering curricula that include analogue circuits, sensor measurements and signals and systems courses.
Multiple universities throughout the US are already developing MyDAQ curricula; NI is making these and other resources available to educational institutions and students via its website. MyDAQ also integrates with the NI Multisim circuits education environment to provide a far-reaching educational platform. The device includes the eight software-based instruments, DMM cables, an audio cable and a reusable storage tray. The Labview Student Edition software and the Multisim Student Edition software are also available with the device at a discount to students.
MyDAQ hardware integrates with the NI Labview graphical development software to help reverse the trend of rising educational costs by giving students hands-on interaction with real analogue circuits, sensor measurements and signal processing for around the price of an engineering textbook. Dr Tony Ambler, chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Texas University in Austin, said: 'Students need exposure to real circuits and hardware, but the problem for engineering professors is trying to meet the increasing cost of providing real electronics with continually tighter budgets.
'NI MyDAQ is inexpensive enough for every student to have their own, plug it into their laptop at home, in the dorm or in the park and experiment with the real electronics all around them, without using lab time or lab equipment,' he added. Compact enough to fit in a student's pocket and powered by USB connection, MyDAQ provides a solution for college engineering professors who want their students to experiment during homework and beyond through a student-owned measurement, signal processing and control device.
MyDAQ bridges the gap between theory and real-world practice by providing students with eight Labview software-based instruments, including a digital multimeter (DMM), an oscilloscope, a function generator, a Bode analyser, a dynamic signal analyser, an arbitrary waveform generator, a digital reader and a digital writer. Students can use these instruments to perform many laboratory-style experiments. When combined with Labview on a PC, MyDAQ delivers a complete solution for the hands-on learning of core concepts in engineering curricula that include analogue circuits, sensor measurements and signals and systems courses.
Multiple universities throughout the US are already developing MyDAQ curricula; NI is making these and other resources available to educational institutions and students via its website. MyDAQ also integrates with the NI Multisim circuits education environment to provide a far-reaching educational platform. The device includes the eight software-based instruments, DMM cables, an audio cable and a reusable storage tray. The Labview Student Edition software and the Multisim Student Edition software are also available with the device at a discount to students.
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