Creative developments in LabVIEW student training: (Creativity laboratory — LabVIEW academy)

Abstract

In Transylvania's University — Creativity Laboratory we try to do complex trainings of students and high school children's — connected with the their preparation for LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) Academy examinations. The graphical nature of LabVIEW makes it easier to develop working code faster — quickly drag and drop built-in functions to simplify acquisition, analysis, control, and data sharing so you can spend less time on syntax errors and more time on creative development of your application. In this paper we present how we put together: industrial cooperation (developed in cooperation with industry), complex system development and fast implementation, LabVIEW training and student/children's creativity development (learning by doing). It is a good exercise to increase creativity starting from a concrete application that allows multiple solutions. This diversity allows students to compare, to do critically appreciation one another, to understand the role of communication and exchange of experience in creating new solutions and to have finally the satisfaction of one achievement, made by their own, under the guidance of professor and in collaboration with colleagues.