NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite III (NI ELVIS III)

The NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite III (NI ELVIS III) is designed to meet the specific needs of university engineering education and help prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers.

The product combines instrumentation, embedded FPGA design and web-based access to measurements and curriculum to create a collaborative, active learning environment in the laboratory, studio and flipped classrooms. With application boards designed by leading educators and industrial partners, the suite expands the NI ELVIS platform to serve a greater set of course topics across electrical and mechanical engineering. Students can benefit from the easy-to-use yet advanced capabilities to work on challenging assignments and gain the necessary skills to design, build and test their projects.

The platform incorporates student-centric tools for learning, measuring and designing in a singular and compact industrial-grade solution. With Wi-Fi, Ethernet and USB connectivity, and compatibility with both Mac and PC, students can easily work together and rapidly interact with the instruments and online resources to quickly advance their skills to be industry-ready.

The suite is built to teach engineering concepts throughout the electrical and mechanical engineering curriculum with applications boards and online, interactive teaching resources developed by experts in industry and academia. Companies including Digilent, Emona, Quanser and Texas Instruments have developed thought-provoking course experiments that drive understanding of fundamental concepts in areas such as electronics, mechatronics, controls, power electronics and communications, and provide a path to applying engineering knowledge to authentic design challenges. Instructors can take advantage of the product’s programmability with languages such as LabVIEW and Python to scale curriculum, projects or problems to multidisciplinary applications including those that incorporate the Internet of Things.