Labview - Material Science Lab Assistant

Last year, my structures professor, which just got his doctorate, was searching for students to join his lab. I saw the passion into his eyes and just couldn't miss this opportunity. It was one of the best experiences ever.

I started volunteering in Nov 2022, however, we did not have the necessary equipment to make progress; I hence decided to bring my own equipment and play with it to learn. It did work as I" had a vanhilla version pretty quickly.

I started grinding labview, loving it more and more in the process and got the lead of the labview team.

Once we got the equipment, I realised that a lot of things in needed to be debugged and adapted to the new daq, ardunio, multimeters.... I spent the first week of my summer on making a simple program work and then rebaselining the complex one.

While struggling in doing so, I decided to make it easier for my peers and wrote protocols for them to learn about the basics; here it is:

Intro to labview

Protocol #1: Intro: This document should walk you through the steps of connecting a new instrument to labview, being a power supply, data acquisition system , or a power supply. This shall work. To do this, you will need admin logins and to talk to the professor in charge to make sure you aren’t…

Google Docs

I, of course, went on to do more complicated coding with homemade PIDs that will control a heater while reading voltage.... However those are used for research.

Labview is not the only thing I did in the lab I created test breadboards and such to make sure my programs were working; that inlcuded soldering, and electrical engineering knowledge.

This research experience was great. I got to lead my small team, learned and taught them so much; and use creativity to complete tasks that were assigned to me while pushing further.