Labview in engineering laboratory courses

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.