 Editor's Note
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| Dear ,
Happy New Year! We hope 2011 will bring more success to educators, researchers, students and the engineering community around the globe! You can rely on support from the Quanser team to engineer your success. Here is how we can help:
- Precise real-time control with QUARC is one of the main reasons many engineering professors choose Quanser lab equipment. Try it via an interactive web-based tutorial.
- Quanser teaching lab equipment comes with step-by-step curriculum that saves you time. Learn more about ABET-aligned curriculum.
- Reliable data acquisition boards and amplifiers can meet high performance demands. Read Quanser amplifiers are utilized to get people to space.
- If you teach controls, we can help you prepare for the upcoming year: request a complimentary copy of the new Control Systems Engineering textbook and assess it for your course.
We have many tools for education and research in control, robotics and mechatronics. Drop us a line to discuss how we can help you achieve your teaching and research goals in 2011.
Sincerely,
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 Teaching Tools
Curriculum Meets ABET Standards |
 Organizations that evaluate university and college engineering programs, such as ABET, are shifting their focus. They are now assessing what students learned rather than what materials are utilized in the course. If your program is striving to get ABET accreditation, you can benefit from Quanser's enhanced curriculum. The new Rotary Servo Control Instructor Workbook embeds a Student Outcomes assessment. This enhanced curriculum is ideal for many undergraduate engineering courses. Request a sample today.
Read more about the curriculum aligned with ABET requirements.
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Focused on QUARC
Guided Tutorial of Control Design Software |
 Many professors who achieve their research or teaching goals have mastered QUARC, Quanser's control development software. They leverage all its functions to advance their teaching or research projects. Our virtual instructor Mr. Q can help uncover the true power of QUARC. Simply take the web-based QUARC Interactive Tutorial. Step by step you will see how to create, build and run a real-time controller from scratch. You can also learn how you can benefit from powerful features, such as online parameter tuning, HIL API and communication capabilities. There's no need to install MATLAB and Simulink on your computer and at your own pace you can explore QUARC for Controls Education, Graduate-Level Exploration or Innovative Research.
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Industry Spotlight
Space Elevator Powered by Quanser Amplifier | 
The Kansas City Space Pirates utilized Quanser's Linear Current Amplifier (LCAM) to develop technology that may one day make it possible for everyone to go to space. A competitor in the Space Elevator Games, the KC Space Pirates created an unmanned climber powered by beamed energy. The climber had to race straight up a one kilometer cable. NASA sponsored the competition by putting up two million dollars in prize money. Who won the race? Read more on our engineering blog.
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| In Your Own Words |
 "(Quanser's) 3 DOF Helicopter is straightforward to use and the lessons learned are easily transferable into real-world situations."
Dr. Guido Herrmann, Bristol University, United Kingdom
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Hands-On Introduction to Robotics for Students
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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences launched an 'Introduction to Robotics' course to give students hands-on experience with industrial robots. Learn which lab tools help students apply theory to real-life applications.
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Virtual Experiments Enrich the Textbook
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Control Systems Engineering by Norman S. Nise is the most widely adopted textbook for core control courses. The sixth edition offers a dynamic new feature: the text is supported by 10 virtual experiments from Quanser. Powered by LabVIEW.
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