Utilizing Student Computers for Laboratory Data Acquisition in a University-Wide Laptop Environment

摘要

Laptop computers are being required of all students starting with the freshmen class of 2000. Traditional thermal science labs are being equipped with Analog-to-Digital converters to output the lab's traditional analog signals as a digital signal carried by a RS232 cable. Read-only files with appropriate software can be loaded on a student laptop when they come to lab, and the student's computer becomes the data acquisition system for the lab.