Integração da Instrumentação Virtual no Ensino do Curso de Sistemas de Aquisição de Dados e Interface

Abstract

This paper presents a case study of integration of virtual instrumentation in the development of engineering projects in undergraduate electrical engineering education, regarding a Data Acquisition and Interface Systems (DAIS) course. The DAIS course is part of the undergraduate curriculum in electrical engineering degree of Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG). This course is very important in the training of students who will work in the area of electronics, and uses LabVIEW as educational tool to carry out the practical activities. In the semester course, the teacher and the monitor followed up the student teams that proposed engineering projects to be developed during four milestones of the DAIS course. For each milestone, LabVIEW tutoring sessions and educational assessment are performed with student teams. Statistical analysis of the collected data is done by semester course and by academic year. At the end of the course, students learned about the content passed and they were fully satisfied with LabVIEW, considering the tool with 95.50% of usefulness during the academic year and 100.00% recommendation to be applied in other engineering projects.