National Instruments Endows RM 1.9 Million to Multimedia University for Virtual Instrumentation Platform

Multimedia University (MMU) students can look forward to attending classes and doing projects in a laboratory equipped with National Instruments graphical programming software and hardware in the near future.

National Instruments (NI) and Multimedia University are announcing their collaboration, which will see MMU laboratory being outfitted with a complete development platform comprising of graphical programming software and computer-based measurement hardware as their main research and instructional platform worth RM 1.9 million.

“Being a worldwide technology leader, NI is positioned to contribute to the local community by collaborating with key academic partners such as MMU,” said Chandran Nair, managing director for NI ASEAN. “By engaging students with technology in an interactive, hands-on learning environment, we can inspire today's students to become tomorrow's innovators.”

Both parties have signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that officialize the partnership at MMU. Signing on behalf of MMU is its President, Prof Dr. Zaharin bin Yusoff. “This is an important milestone for MMU. For the past two years we have been gearing up to transform ourselves into a research university. National Instruments’ contribution will add invaluable impetus to our efforts.”