My experience in National Instrument was truly unbelievable: I dared to have a chance to teach a full classroom of graduate students when I was just an inexperienced undergraduate.
How did I get the job?
Opportunity never has to knock on my door twice; in fact, it doesn't even have to knock on my door -- my ear is already glued to the door. I went to a LabVIEW class held by NI where they were happened to find a seeded teacher that can help them to continue their classes for the upcoming semesters. After passing the CLAD (Certificated LabVIEW Associated Developer) exam , I went to their interview and gave an explicit tutoring background as well as my coding ability. Fortunately, I was hired.
About the course that I was lecturing
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| the first day of my class |
- This class was held by NI to promote the LabVIEW programming language among colleges and would help students to pass their CLAD (Certificated LabVIEW Associated Developer) exam.
- The class had a total of 10 courses that encompassed two main design patterns that was widely used in LabVIEW: State Machine and Producer/ Consumer.
- Despite NI had provided their original materials for this course, I found them too general for students to have a deeper understanding in some structures, so I spent a lot of time designing useful examples.
- I was the lecturer for 3 semesters until I graduated.
At the meanwhile, I aided NI to do 3 small projects: an bi-wheel automatic vehicle, a auto-balanced beam, and a motion-vision vehicle for them to demo.
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| (left) auto-balanced bi-wheel vehicle; (middle) auto-balanced beam; (right) motion-vision vehicle |
The first two of the projects was simply assembling the ingredients they handed in to me, while the third one I would have to programmed from scratch.
It was the first time I dealt with vision-motion structure. I implemented a structure called QSM (Queued State Machine) alongside with NI image processing module to complete this project. It was designed to fetch the object with the color assigned by user.
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| They even put my project on their job fair stand. |
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