To help PI students gain an edge and to speed up their learning, the department offers workshops that are open to students at all levels. These workshops are offered by highly qualified lab engineers, and are usually conducted in the summer. Check below for details on previously offered workshops.
| LabVIEW Workshop |
Testing, Measurement, and Control with LabVIEW |
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Summary
Labview is used extensively in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering for testing, measurement, and control applications. Regardless of your experience, you can rapidly improve your knowledge on this useful application in this workshop.
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| PCB Workshop |
Printed Circuit Board Design, Manufacturing, and Testing |
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Summary
Printed Circuit Boards, or simply PCBs, are used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. PCBs are so popularly used because they are rugged, inexpensive and can be highly reliable compared to wire-wrapped project boards and stripped boards.
The electrical engineering department at the petroleum institute is preparing a 5-days workshop on PCB layout design, board manufacturing and component soldering. All electrical engineering students are invited and welcomed to attend the workshop.
The layout design will involve teaching the student two methods to create the circuit layout. One way is to use software that can create a Garber file out of circuit schematics. The other deals with directly drawing your circuit layout using other software.
The board manufacturing will show the student the difference between the chemical etching and the mechanical etching process.
Moreover the student will learn about standard components and Surface mount devices (SMDs) soldering techniques.
Later on the student will design and create the layout then chemically develop the PCB board. Finally he will solder the components on the same board.
This workshop aims to support the students with enough skills to prepare the PCBs for their senior designs and competitions projects with less time and effort.
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| MATLAB Workshop |
Basic MATLAB Programming |
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Summary
MATLAB is one of the most widely used scientific programming languages in the world today. The name, MATLAB, stands for Matrix Laboratory, a reflection of the programs origins. Indeed, one of the most distinctive features of MATLAB is its integrated use of matrices and the operations of linear algebra.
All EE students are welcome to attend the workshop. Especially those who have already completed ELEG 205 and ELEG 206 and also those junior and senior level students who want to brush their programming skills in MATLAB.
There are two objectives to this tutorial: (a) to learn basic MATLAB commands, and (b) to understand how to write and execute simple MATLAB programs to generate, manipulate, display and save data. The following topics will be covered during the short course:
. Variables, assignment statements and mathematical operations
. Mathematical Operations with MATLAB
. Loops and Conditionals in MATLAB
. Built in MATLAB functions
. Scalar Functions Applied to Matrices
. Writing a MATLAB program: M files
. Plotting in MATLAB
. ODE routines in MATLAB
. Symbolic Tool Box in MATLAB
. Control System Tool Box.
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