Agreement will boost engineering research

National Instruments (NI) and Flinders University have signed an agreement that will significantly boost the university’s teaching capacity and engineering research.

Matej Krajnc, Managing Director of NI Oceania and South Africa, and Professor John Roddick, Dean of the School of Computer Science Engineering and Mathematics, signed the agreement.

“This agreement will accelerate the development of projects such as remote teaching experiments that our engineering students can operate from anywhere, at any time,” Professor Roddick said. “This will allow remote sharing of equipment across universities, including interstate.”

The collaboration will benefit students seeking to attain high-level measurement and control system development credentials, which are in high demand from the industry.

“It will also deliver measurement and control ‘building blocks’ to enable us to construct more research machines, such as those that reproduce the movement of biological joints or implants,” Professor Roddick said.

The agreement allows for, among other things, technology sharing, future research collaboration and staff and curriculum development.

The two parties will also work towards establishing an NI LabVIEW Academy at the university, which would provide undergraduate students with National Instruments industry-standard qualifications before graduation.