NI donates design tools to MIT for five years

NEW DELHI, INDIA: National Instruments today announced that it is donating design tools to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to help expand the use of NI software and hardware in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering via 10 mechatronics, robotics, manufacturing, control and design courses over the next five years.

“We are very appreciative of the support from National Instruments. Use of state-of-the-art NI tools enhances the classroom experience and reinforces student learning at multiple points in the curriculum,” said Professor Mary Cunningham Boyce, head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering.

She added that the NI tools also help accelerate the department’s research into new areas, such as agile biomimetic robotics, high-speed imaging at the nanoscale and precision motion control.

The donation will include products such as the NI LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module, the NI LabVIEW MathScript RT Module, NI PXI instrumentation, NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO.