LabVIEW Champions Member Profile - Ed Dickens

Name: Ed Dickens Home: Cedar Rapids, Ia. Programming Languages: LabVIEW, LabVIEW Real Time, LabVIEW FPGA, dabbled with CVI (too much typing)

Certification:
Certified LabVIEW Developer (Oct. 2004), Certified Professional Instructor (Aug. 2004)

Used LabVIEW Since:
LabVIEW 6i, 2000

Applications Areas:
Data Acquisition, CAN, Manufacturing Automation, R&D Automation, Software verification, Control Design, automotive, agriculture, construction equipment, biomedical, machine control and monitoring, engineering design and test, production testing and just getting into vision applications.

Biography:
I'm a Certified LabVIEW Developer and an NI Certified Professional Instructor. I teach part time at a local community college in a pilot program where we run classes a couple evenings a weeks teaching LabVIEW Basics, Intermediate, Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning and Instrument Control.

I currently work for DISTek Integration Inc.in Cedar Falls, Iowa. DISTek is an NI Certified Alliance Partner with an emphasis on Control Design applications. Areas we have worked in are automotive, biomedical, machine control and monitoring, engineering design and test and production testing.

I've done some work for OpenG.org and help organize and run the Iowa LabVIEW User Group (ILUG).

I started using LabVIEW in 2000 when it was literally dropped on my desk when I first started at DISTek while assigned to an engineering group at our largest customer. ("There's a new guy, let's give it to him.") I taught myself by going through the Basics 1&2 books and by building simulation applications to assist in embedded software design. That's when I got hooked.

A couple years later, DISTek was looking for ways to expand, so we thought we'd take LabVIEW on the road. We joined the NI Alliance program and our group has been growing ever since.

Discussion Groups:
NI Discussion Forums, LAVA, Info-LabVIEW mail list

Websites:
Ed's LabVIEW Stuff

Articles:
LTR Vol. 11, Num. 3, "Did You Know That...You can use a window's "X" button to properly stop and exit an application?"

Books:
none (yet)

User Groups: