Title :
LabView in engineering laboratory courses
Author :
Wang, Julie Yi-Zun
Author_Institution :
Potomac State Coll., West Virginia Univ., USA
Abstract :
The project is to introduce the national instruments software LabView to the lower division engineering laboratory courses in electrical and mechanical engineering. LabView provides a modern tool to perform the computer-based experiments, date acquisition, and instrumentation measurements. The objectives of this project are: gain hands-on experience; understand how engineering system works; develop technical skills including programming and analysis; provide interactive and remote access to the laboratory facilities at anywhere; share resources with other colleges and universities through the distance learning; and reduce the cost of laboratory equipment. We use ready-to-use examples to build up the electrical/mechanical systems and perform measurement and analysis. The compute-based experiments can be easily controlled and switched between host and client computers by computer network or Internet.
Keywords :
Internet; computer based training; data acquisition; distance learning; educational courses; educational institutions; electrical engineering education; mechanical engineering; Internet; LabView; computer network; computer-based experiments; date acquisition; distance learning; electrical engineering; engineering laboratory courses; instrumentation measurements; laboratory facilities; mechanical engineering; Computer aided instruction; Computer networks; Costs; Educational institutions; Instruments; Laboratories; Mechanical engineering; Mechanical systems; Performance evaluation; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2003. FIE 2003 33rd Annual
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7961-6
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2003.1264710
