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Academic Resources for the Modern Engineering Program

The transition between circuit theory in a textbook and the real-world laboratory environment is often difficult for students. Students enter labs for courses that range from introductory electronics to senior design projects and pose similar questions:

  • How do I implement a prototype based on my circuit diagram?
  • How does the NAND gate in my textbook relate to this integrated circuit?
  • How do I effectively use oscilloscopes and the rest of this equipment?
  • How can I quickly and easily complete my analysis for my lab report?

All educators need to provide students with practical experience, while also making circuit theory interesting, compelling and ultimately second-nature to students. Engineering schools around the world must create an engaging yet rigorous learning environment to produce engineers who are ready to join the professional community.

To support these efforts, NI offers Electronics Education Courseware. These curriculum resources were developed in conjunction with leading instructors and professors. With these partners, we created high-quality resources with examples, assignments and labs based on industry-standard hardware and software. These curriculum resources help you prepare engineers for the demands of the professional workplace.

View and download the Electronics Education Courseware to fully implement the NI Multisim features designed for education, and to see examples of teaching the fundamentals of physical design with the NI ELVIS prototyping workstation.

Learn more about National Instruments courseware today!

June 2007

 
Issue at a Glance
Company and Product News

NI Multisim Student Edition 10.0 Now Available!
NI Week 2007

Academic Resources

Practical Teaching Ideas

NEW Academic Circuits Page at ni.com

Events

Multisim & Ultiboard Training Classes Available

Development Resources

NI-EWB R&D Staff Tip of the Month

What's New in Version 10 Tutorials Now Available for Professionals and Academics

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Company and Product News
A Special Message for Students and Educators. NI Multisim Student Edition 10.0 Now Available!
National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group is pleased to announce the release of NI Multisim Student Edition. The student edition combines our easy-to-use schematic capture, powerful analyses and interactive SPICE simulation with features to help students learn fundamental electrical engineering topics more easily. Students can now prepare for design projects, laboratories and better understand homework assignments by creating circuits of up to 50 components choosing from a database of nearly 4000 components.

NI Multisim 10.0 Student Edition also includes microcontroller simulation with NI Multisim MCU Module and layout and routing features.
Learn more at ni.com/academic/multisimse

NI Week 2007
Join us at NI Week 2007, August 7-9 in Austin, Texas. Join engineers, scientists, educators, and exhibitors from all over the world and attend this three-day event which includes interactive technical sessions and exhibitions and workshops on the latest developments for automation, manufacturing, design and test.

For 13 years, engineers and scientists from around the world have come together in Austin to experience NI Week. Here's why you should join us in 2007:

  • More than 180 technical sessions - Bring your colleagues to learn about NI products, user applications, industry trends and more in these interactive sessions.
  • Hands-on training - Get up close and personal with NI hardware and software through a variety of hands-on sessions.
  • Four technical summits - Explore trends and innovations in graphical system design, RF and wireless communications, sound and vibration and vision.
  • Leading edge product demonstrations - Watch as NI leaders and industry experts demonstrate innovative applications that save companies significant time and money

Learn more about NI Week 2007 and register today at ni.com/niweek
Download the preliminary conference program here.

Academic Resources
Practical Teaching Ideas
Practical Teaching Ideas is a FREE collection of introductory and advanced laboratory assignments on topics such as circuit theory, transistors and RF communication. This comprehensive electronics course helps you use NI Multisim interactive simulation software and the NI ELVIS prototyping workstation to reinforce classroom theory. Professors and electronics educators can use these ready-to-run experiments free of charge in an educational setting.
Download the courseware now.

NEW Academic Circuits Page at ni.com
The newly redesigned ni.com/academic/circuits web-page provides professors, lab instructors and students with a single online destination for the resources to teach fundamental and advanced topics in electronics, circuit design and SPICE simulation.
Visit our new ni.com/academic/circuits page NOW!

Visit our new ni.com/academic/circuits page NOW!

Events
Multisim & Ultiboard Training Classes Available
Looking for the fastest way to become productive with NI Multisim or NI Ultiboard? Sign up for a professional training course to learn how to effectively integrate our tools into your design process, to capture, simulate and lay out your printed circuit boards. These hands-on courses allow you to immediately apply and practice what you learn. The two day NI Multisim Basics course and one day NI Ultiboard Basics are available today. If you are interested in signing up or want to know more please call your local representative. 
Learn more
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Development Resources
NI-EWB R&D Staff Tip of the Month
One of my favorite features in NI Multisim 10.0 is the ability to natively read and write data to the LabVIEW measurement (LVM) file format. This allows you to integrate simulation data of board-level designs, with the acquired output of real hardware, via NI LabVIEW applications.

This interaction between Multisim and LabVIEW opens many possibilities for advanced signal analysis, most notably the ability to compare a prototyped design to theoretical simulated output. To make this task easier for the user, Multisim re-samples the simulation data by interpolating it from uneven simulated data to evenly sampled measurements that can be written to the LVM format.
To learn more view the full article
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What's New in Version 10 Tutorials Now Available for Professionals and Academics
Find out what's new and improved in NI Multisim 10.0 by viewing our NEW online interactive tutorials. There are two versions of the tutorial, one for our professional users and one for our academic users. These tutorials explore the exciting new advancements in NI Multisim 10.0 and how they can benefit the design flow.
View Professional Tutorial.

View Academic Tutorial.


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