today has started NI Week 2017 with the presentation by Andy Bell, director of NI academic programs, of the new challenges and actions that NI has arranged to facilitate today's students with the tasks and the great challenges that the future has prepared for them. The engineering challenges that society presents today are constantly evolving. Young engineering students must be prepared to face these new challenges and for this, NI offers them tools to solve these challenges.
How do we prepare our students for the challenges of tomorrow?
In a world in which, by 2020, more than 30 trillion devices will be connected and the earth's population will reach 8.500 million people, it is necessary for the new generations of tomorrow's engineers to have the best tools for development of your work. With more than 8000 labs at the world's top universities and schools, NI helps academic programs at all of them with tools and support for young students to do hands-on projects and experiments that make learning easier. Thanks to NI academic programs, students benefit immensely from the lessons learned about proper software development, documentation, and programming frameworks no matter what fields and challenges they encounter and will encounter in the future. it gives them confidence to face them without fear.
NI provides new tools for education
The largest university in the UK, the Open University is taking advantage of the new tools that NI provides to reach students around the world with its new OpenLAB method of learning and experimentation. Thanks to OpenLAB, students have access to remote experiments with NI technology with which they can carry out the study and experimentation of practical cases from their home through their web browser. More than 4752 experiments are performed daily with OpenLAB over the internet.
With the Academic Site License Students have all the software they use in the laboratories to install on their own laptops and tablets, which provides continuous learning. Students can carry out programming tasks and analysis of the data obtained in the laboratories from anywhere, which facilitates and stimulates their learning. Items like MyRIO y DAQExpress They make laboratory experimentation in complex environments common to day-to-day life easy to reproduce in engineering classrooms. A great tool that students and educators can now benefit from is Multisim Live in its beta version. Multisim Live is a web-based circuit capture and circuit simulation tool, based on SPICE technology. A great advance in the field of education and teaching will mean the creation of online and interactive portals such as NI Teaching Resources. In this portal, educators and students have access to educational projects in which they have access to all the steps for understanding problems and projects, both basic and complex electronic projects. Through this new tool, projects can be filtered by product, discipline, learning level, etc., which makes it flexible for all types of students.
