Introducing Undergraduate Engineering Students to Laboratory Programs Automation Using High-Level Application Hallden August E. Sapega Professor of Engineering Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut 06106 Introduction Also, tw~fold automating purpose. laboratory experiments has a of tak- One is to relieve the tedium One of the most powerful application of computers is to capture data during an experiment, to analyze the data and calculate results, and to present the results in a meaningful graphical form. Undergraduate engineering students need to become familiar and comfortable with this type of use of computers in the laboratory. With the support of an NSF CSIP software Labgrant 1 we have used the application VIEW running students, (Laboratory primarily Virtual electrical Instrument computer, and Workbench), to enable our engion the Macintosh ing data point-by-point the results by whatever Computer acquisition by hand, and then calculating convenient method is at hand. and analysis of data allows stu- dents to concentrate their attention on the principles demonstrated and the interpretation of results. The second purpose is to introduce engineering students to the ideaa of computer data acquisition and analysis, to expose them to the more advanced instruments used in these activities, these techniques work. in their and to
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