Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Education

该项目涉及一所四年制学校、两所社区学院(伊利诺伊州中央学院和里奇兰社区学院)和一家仪器公司(National Instruments)。该项目正在通过开发和教授使用虚拟仪器和数据采集系统的课程来提高技术专业学生的能力。这些课程为学生使用虚拟仪器测量和分析真实世界的数据做好准备。该奖项提供必要的硬件和软件，该项目培训社区学院的教职员工使用软件。该项目小组在一名经验丰富的评估员的帮助下，正在确定虚拟仪器的使用如何影响学生的学习。项目组计划在教育机构和仪器公司的各种会议、教育期刊和网站上介绍他们的教育材料和评价结果。

This project is a collaboration involving a 4-year school, two community colleges (Illinois Central College and Richland Community College), and an instrumentation company (National Instruments). The project is improving the competency of technology students with virtual instrumentation and data acquisition systems by developing and teaching courses using this technology. These courses are preparing students for measuring and analyzing real world data using virtual instruments. The award provides the necessary hardware and software and the project trains community college faculty members in the use of the software. The project team, with the help of an experienced evaluator, is determining how the use of virtual instrumentation affects student learning. The project team plans to describe their educational materials and evaluation results in presentations at various conferences, in the education journals, and on websites, both at the educational institutions and the instrumentation company.