NI Leadership Seminar Series 2001

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A Successful Career in Engineering(In Theory)

• Tim Dehne
• BSEE Rice University 1987
• Senior VP of RD
• National Instruments

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What do Michael Dell and Bill Gates have in
common?
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Engineers Leaders

• Fact 17 of Fortune 500 CEOs have a business
  degree
• Fact 20 have an engineering degree

Source US News and World Reports
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Why do 20 of Fortune 500 CEOs have an
engineering degree?
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Leadership Traits of Engineers

• Intelligent
• Problem solvers
• Creative
• Persistent
• Thorough
• Logical
• Practical

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What job functions need engineers?

• Product development
• Design validation
• Manufacturing
• Technical Sales
• Product Marketing
• Applications support
• Any role

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Two Basic Paths in Product Development

• Technical Track
• Deep technical competence
• Mentor
• Tackle the hardest technical challenges
• Management Track
• Motivate people
• Streamline processes
• Make business decisions

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• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
  indistinguishable from magic."                   
                                                    
                  
• Arthur C. Clarke

850 books
1 USB Memory Stick
4oz
2/3 of a ton
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In college you get your personal GPA
In industry you get a raise if you can work on a
team
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Todays Designs Converging Complexity
Cellular Phone
Navigation
PC/WWW/Email
CDRW
PDA
Games
DVDRW
AM/FM Stereo
Satellite Car Alarm/Radio
Remote Diagnostics
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How do you get off to a great start?

• Stay on top of the latest technology
• Learning never stops
• Work hard
• Meet your commitments/deadlines
• Just like you did in school!
• Be a contributing member of the team
• Be curious
• Ask questions
• Sign up for needed tasks

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Key Aspects to a Design

• Sound design and simulation
• Prototype verification
• Break the design
• Test, test, test
• Minimize costs
• Packaging/usability
• Manufacturability
• Test

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How do you continue to grow?

• Stay on the leading edge of technology
• Keep a watchful eye on your industry
• Become more well-rounded
• Global perspective
• Communication skills
• Project management
• Systems perspective

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The World is Flat
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Source U.S. Department of Education, National
Center for Educational Statistics,Higher
Education General Information Survey (HEGIS)
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Engineering Graduates Comparison

• Country Graduates
• China 300,000
• India 200,000
• Japan 103,300
• Russia 90,700
• US 63,300
• Germany 25,500
• France 22,800
• UK 22,000
• Source NSF Science and Engineering Indicators
  2004
• Data for China and India are estimates

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Product Development Process
Modeling, Design
Verification/ Prototype
Validation
Analysis, Simulation
Manufacturing
97 of design engineers support their designs
all the way throughout the manufacturing phase -
Cahners Research, 2001
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The Need for Validating Simulations with Test Data

• The shuttle Columbia was doomed in part because
  NASA relied on flawed computer simulations and
  mathematical formulas that failed to accurately
  predict damage
• experts say, they should have performed tests
  on shuttle components
• Columbia Accident Investigation Board findings as
  summarized by
• Alan Levin and Traci Watson, USA Today
• Emphasis by author

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Typical Manufacturing Line
Machine Vision
Discrete Control
Temperature Control
Motion Control
Operator Interface
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Typical Measurement and Automation Applications
Audio
Acoustics
Body Chassis
Engine
Durability
RF Signal
Keypad
Electronics
Emissions
LCD
Safety
Tire Brake
Sound
Battery
Audio Sound
Electronics
Power Supply
Video Signal
Disk Drive
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Laser Photocoagulation
From the touch screen user interface, physicians
can select spot sizes, pattern types, spot
density and number of spots.
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Sanarus Medical, Inc.

• Visica2 Treatment System
• Cryogenically freezes benign breast tumors using
  ultrasound
• Eliminates need for surgery
• CompactRIO and LabVIEW used to design,
  prototype, and deploy a control system

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Octal Core
Quad Core
3 GHz
Single Core
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Parallel Architectures Drive Performance

• Faster processors Multicore processors

• Intel QX6700 Quad-Core Processor
• Pair of Core 2 dies in single package
• 2.66 GHz CPU speed

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Theres a Small Catch
To fully exploit the power of processors
working in parallel...new software must deal
with the problem of concurrency." Bill
Gates, Microsoft
But a parallel programming modelwill not
emerge for five to 10 years, according to
experts from Microsoft Corp." Rick Merritt,
EE Times
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Inherent Parallelism with LabVIEW
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15 Global Challenges Facing Humanity
World Federation of United Nations Associations -
Millennium Project
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Green is Everywhere
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What Others are Saying
We find with energy and greenhouse gases, if you
start to measure, people reduce the usage, says
Linda Fisher, the chief sustainability officer at
DuPont. Measuring is not a simple task, but once
a company has a proper baseline it can see what
can be changed. - Excerpt from A Change in
Climate, published in the January issue of the
Economist
What gets measured gets managed - Excerpt from
Green to Gold authored by Daniel Esty and Andrew
Winston
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Measure It Fix It!
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Green Engineering

• Definition
• Green Engineering is the use of measurement and
  control techniques to design, develop, and
  improve products and technologies resulting in
  environmental and economic benefits
• NI Enabling Technologies
• High-Speed and High-Resolution Measurements
• Advanced Analysis and Signal Processing
• High-Speed and Advanced Control
• Embedded System Technology

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Green Engineering Areas

• Renewable Power Generation
• Power Monitoring
• Environmental Monitoring
• Optimizing the Efficiency of Existing Machines
  and Automation Systems
• Development and Test of Environmentally
  Beneficial Products and Technologies

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• Renewable Energy

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Siemens Power Generation - Denmark

• One of the premier companies in the international
  power generation sector
• Supply wind turbine generators with rotor
  diameters up to 107 meters (350 ft)
• Use PXI, LabVIEW, and LabVIEW Real-Time and to
  develop and test the control algorithms embedded
  in the turbines

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Thermomax Tests Evacuated Tube Solar Collectors

• Challenge Test equipment for efficient and
  economical conversion of solar radiation into
  thermal energy.
• Solution Two PC-based, fully automated test
  systems.
• Products FieldPoint, Motion Control, LabVIEW DSC
  
• Green Benefits The new facilities have
  significantly reduced the time and cost of
  product development, making it possible to
  perform tests all year round, using the solar
  simulator.

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Control of a Permanent Magnet Linear Generator
for Ocean Wave Energy

• Challenge Interest in wave energy conversion
  devices is rapidly growing worldwide for the
  potential to harness a sustainable and renewable
  energy source. Due to the oscillatory nature of
  ocean waves, the power generated from a permanent
  magnet linear generator (PMLG) for ocean wave
  energy conversion is pulsed and left
  unconditioned, is not easily used or stored.
• Solution With an active rectifier topology, the
  real and reactive power from the PMLG is fully
  controllable. Using a novel three-phase active
  rectifier topology and force controller with a
  dc-dc converter for bus voltage regulation the
  energy can be stored.
• Products CompactRIO, LabVIEW FPGA
• Green Benefits A working design of a three-phase
  active rectifier and controller was implemented
  and prototyped with a CompactRIO system.

Full paper available at http//ir.library.oregons
tate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/5921/1/NovelContro
lofaPermanentMa
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• Retrofitting Existing Machines and Production
  Equipment

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Virginia Tech Wins ChallengeX 2006 Hybrid Vehicle
Competition with cRIO

• Challenge Develop methods for reducing total
  energy consumption and emissions in a crossover
  vehicle while maintaining or exceeding vehicle
  utility and performance
• Solution A high-level control strategy for the
• hybrid vehicles implemented and prototyped with
  LabVIEW FPGA CompactRIO.
• Result VT reduced well-to-wheels petroleum use
  by
• 74 for Year 2 Win
• Products LabVIEW, Simulation Interface Toolkit,
  LabVIEW Real-Time, CompactRIO
• Green Benefit A three-year engineering
  competition to improve fuel efficiency and
  performance at a lower cost for future GM
  vehicles.

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Steel Mill Reactor Monitoring

• One of the largest consumers
• of electricity in the US
• Optimizing Existing Melting Process using
• Advanced Power Analysis
• FPGA-based protection circuit
• Datalogging
• Used CompactRIO for advanced control and
  integrated it with existing PLC system
• Prevents the over melting of scrap steel (waste
  electricity)
• Maximize the efficient use of electrical energy
  and rapidly change control methods to reduce
  power flicker

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TO Stelectric Reduces Pesticide Use with NI
Vision

• To keep the Danish railroad tracks weed free,
  herbicides were sprayed on 100 of the railroad
  tracks
• NI Vision systems were outfitted on the weed
  spraying wagon to identify weeds and limit
  pesticide spraying to those areas
• Green Benefit
• Reduced herbicide usage by 50
• Automated the reporting of pesticide use to
  comply with environmental regulations

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• Environmental Monitoring

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Environmental Sensor Networks Monitoring Global
Change

• Monitoring interactive phenomena
• Atmosphere, Water, Soil, and Ecosystems
• Characteristic spatiotemporal diversity

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Environmental Sensor Networks Example Program -
NIMS
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NIMS at Wind River (Costa Rica)Canopy Crane
Research Facility
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Mercury Emissions Stack Monitor

• Application
• Reliable mercury emissions sampling system for
  coal fired power plants
• Developed as monitoring system approved by EPA
• Benefits
• Expanded memory and performance
• Automated interface
• Technical Key
• Flexible, real-time software architecture

The success of the project was due to the
processing and automation power of the cFP-2120,
as well as the ease of use derived from
integrating the PDA Control System.
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From Kindergarten to Rocket Science
CERN Large Hadron Collider the most powerful
instrument on earth
LEGO Mindstorms NXT the smartest, coolest toy of
the year
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National Instruments Vision Evolved
To do for embedded what the PC did for the
desktop.
Graphical System Design
Complex instrumentation RF Digital Distributed
Industrial control RT/FPGA systems Electronic
devices C code generation
Virtual Instrumentation
Embedded Systems
Real-time measurements Embedded
monitoring Hardware in the loop
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Its OK to have fun!
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What is Virtual Instrumentation?
Customer-Defined PC-Based Measurement and
Automation Solutions
Traditional Vendor-Defined Instruments
Processor
Display
RAM
Power Supply
Real-Time OS
Hard Disk
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Engineering Feats were Rock Festivals
32,000,000 visitors came to see the 1000 foot
Eiffel Tower in 1889

• 25,000 New Yorkers paraded for 16 hours when the
  first cablegram was sent from America to Europe.

• 200,000 people celebrated a week-long fiesta when
  the Golden Gate Bridge was opened in 1937

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Engineers used to be Rock Stars
Wright brothers
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
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The World Needs Engineers

• Intelligence
• Problem solvers
• Creativity
• Persistence
• Thoroughness
• Logical
• Practical

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Clearly it is now possible for more people than
ever to collaborate and compete in real time on
a more equal footing than any time in the history
of the world using computers, e-mail, networks,
teleconferencing, and dynamic new software.

• - T. Friedman, The World is Flat

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the most profound thing to me is the fact that
a fourteen-year-old in Romania or Bangalore or
the Soviet Union or Vietnam has all the
information, all the tools, all the software,
easily available to apply knowledge however they
want.

• - M. Andreessen, The World is Flat