 Editor's Note
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Dear Reader
The just-started academic year brings some positive signs of economic recovery, but also raises new questions. Many industries as we had known them changed and so did needs of the labor market. How are educators worldwide preparing students to meet industry's evolving needs? Many have already enhanced their courses to help graduate better engineers.
At McMaster University the unique biomedical course opens a whole range of career options for undergraduate students. For many civil engineering students, hands-on lab work is now more accessible than ever via the University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables experiments with teleoperated Shake Tables.
In virtually any engineering field, industrial leaders like Boeing, Freescale and Northrop Grumman look for well-rounded graduates who understand how various electrical, mechanical, computer and control systems interact. Join our live webinars to learn how you can maximize the impact of your engineering courses with technology and curriculum used by professors in Australia, USA, Japan and other countries around the globe.
And virtually in any engineering field researchers can now bring their work closer to reality thanks to visualization tools of QuaRC control software.
In upcoming issues of our newsletter we will share more insights and innovations. Stay tuned. Sincerely, Zuzana Fabusova, eNEWS Editor |
New Teaching Tools
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 Today's Industry is looking for a new kind of engineer with multidisciplinary and systems integration experience. It is becoming increasingly important for students to understand how electrical, mechanical, computer and control systems interact with one another. Join our live webinar to learn how you can enhance your courses with industry-relevant mechatronic devices. Our engineers will walk you through new curriculum for the quarter-car Active Suspension System, and demonstrate the plants from Quanser's Mechatronic Controls Collection for advanced teaching and research. |
Advanced Teaching and Research
Teleoperating the Earthquake |
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 True or false - civil engineering students can still experience a real earthquake even without a Shake Table in their lab? The answer is - True. University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables ( UCIST), with the help of Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation ( NEES) have developed a series of exercises to allow students to perform remote experiments using Quanser's bench-top shake tables. Prof. Dyke, founder and director of UCIST, recently discussed this in a webinar. |
QuaRC Spotlight
Visualize Your Simulation
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 In high-end research, analyzing behaviour of the system simulation with mathematical tools can be challenging. Visualization helps immensely. Now Quanser's real-time control software QuaRC allows you to do just that. With the powerful OpenGL-based visualization blocks, researchers can now augment their simulation with a real-time 3D graphical scene and turn it into a Virtual Plant Simulation. So you can demonstrate your research device - no matter how big - in the classroom or boardroom. Watch the video to learn what visualization tools can do for you. |
| In Your Own Words |
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"Conventionally we use VC++ and OpenGL to develop the control system
and the visual interface. With Q8 [Quanser's Hardware-in-the-Loop Board] and QuaRC control software, I can now do the same
thing faster and the control sequence is much clearer than before. "
Yi Yang, PhD student, Beihang University, China
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Re-engineering Biomedical Education
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A unique course in Medical Robotics gives undergrad students at McMaster University hands-on access to medical robots in their lab and a range of opportunities in their future careers.
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