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Volume 4
August 2008
Dear Reader,

Welcome to Quanser's August issue of ENews. We aim to keep Deans, Department Heads, Professors, Partners and Distributors updated on the latest academic initiatives in engineering.

Summer is almost over and many professors start thinking about the new academic year ahead. How to captivate and motivate more engineering students with limited time, space and budget is top of mind for many. In this issue learn how other professors overcome these challenges. Plus we'll highlight some of the newest budget-friendly control lab solutions on the market. Whether you teach junior or senior undergrads, graduate students or do research, this is news you can use!
In This Issue
Undergraduate Control Labs: Six Plants on One Platform
Intermediate Control Labs: A Light-Weight Solution with Big Punch
Advanced Research: Leader in the Medical Technology Research
Feature Story - University of the West Indies
Undergraduate Control Labs: Six Plants on One Platform

Quanser QNET VTOL Using LabVIEW? Own National Instruments ELVIS units? Get the most of your investment. Now you can have six experiments on one ELVIS - a cost-effective way to demonstrate  fundamentals of motor control, pendulum control, thermodynamics, motion control, mechatronics and biomedical engineering. Watch this audio webcast now to learn how you can use the recently released NI ELVIS II educational design and prototyping platform with LabVIEW and Quanser QNET controls plants in your control design, dynamic systems, and mechatronics courses.
Intermediate Control Labs: A Light-Weight Solution with Big Punch

Quanser Q3ControlPaQ with SRV02 and laptopWhat do you get when you combine an amplifier unit with a real-time control data acquisition board? A portable, lightweight solution you can take anywhere. Whether you demonstrate Linear or Rotary Challenges in a lecture hall or in a lab, the new Q3 ControlPaQ-FW easily connects to a laptop and goes where you need it most. This first truly laptop supported solution runs with Matlab, LabVIEW or Quanser's new real-time  rapid control prototyping
                           software QuaRC.
Advanced Research: Leader in the Medical Technology Research

Quanser at HTX Open HouseQuanser's research in haptics is reflected in many successful solutions for research labs and graduate studies. At the Health Technology Exchange (HTX) Open House in June, Quanser demonstrated a revolutionary intelligent rehabilitation robot. Guests included John Wilkinson, Minister of Research and Innovation in Ontario, Canada (pictured here). Watch the video about Quanser's rehabilitation robot. To learn more about advanced teaching and research tools, please submit your enquiry now.


In Your Own Words
 
 
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    "...our job is not to make experimental devices, but to do research and teach. For this reason, Quanser's products are the best fit for us."
 
Dr. Mete Kalyoncu, University of Sel�uk, Turkey
  
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Feature Story
 
 University of the West Indies
  Quanser solution at the University of the West Indies

Learn how
the cost-effective and time-saving upgrade of the control lab helps the University of West Indies captivate and motivate undergrad students with industry-relevant education!
 


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Zuzana Fabusova
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