Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) Preparation Course

Overview:
Texas A&M University at Qatar in partnership with National Instruments is pleased to offer a five-day training course, which prepares you to be a Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD). This certification will help you navigate through your line of work by creating amazing Virtual Instruments using LabVIEW. A CLAD demonstrates a broad and complete understanding of the core features and functionalities available in the LabVIEW Full Development System and possesses the ability to apply that knowledge to develop, debug, and maintain small LabVIEW modules. The typical experience level of a CLAD is approximately six to nine months in the use of the LabVIEW Full Development System and is recommended for engineers from all disciplines.

Audience:

• New users and users preparing to develop applications using LabVIEW or NI Developer Suite
• Users and technical managers evaluating LabVIEW or NI Developer Suite in purchasing decisions
• Users pursuing the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer certification

Prerequisites:

• Experience with Microsoft Windows
• Experience writing algorithms in the form of flowcharts or block diagrams

After attending this course, you will be able to:

• Use LabVIEW to create data acquisition, analysis, and display applications
• Create user interfaces with charts, graphs and buttons
• Use the programming structures and data types that exist in LabVIEW
• Use common design techniques and the state machine design pattern in your applications
• Use various editing and debugging techniques
• Create and save VIs for use as subVIs
• Read and write your data to files
• Create applications that use plug-in data acquisition (DAQ) boards
• Create applications that use GPIB and serial port instruments
• Apply common design patterns that use notifiers, queues, and events
• Use event programming effectively
• Programmatically control user interface objects
• Evaluate binary file I/O formats and use them in applications
• Optimize reuse of existing code for your projects