Hello Dave, My name is Julian Estrada, I am the lab manager at Envigado’s University Institution in Colombia. We currently have a lab equipped with very old analog gear, and some Tek digital oscilloscopes from the 90’s with basic functionality.
Some of Our classes would be significantly streamlined if We had access to gear capable of frequency response analysis and of protocol decoding, as well as a good FFT since We currently only have access to one spectrum analyzer for all of Our students.
Having access to a great instrument as the Keysight would also help Us motivate our students by showing Them that electronics is not all clunky analog stuff, and that it doesn’t have to be a pain to complete a laboratory report.
Thank You for Your attention. Here’s a video showing three of Our students talking about the equipment We work with at the moment.
Here is a transcript of the video in English as well:
Hello! My name is Luciana Serna, mine is Camilo Castro, and mine is Valeria Sanchez Arango
We are Electronics Engineering students at Institucion Universitaria de Envigado (Envigado’s University Institution)
Now We’re going to show You the equipment We use
First of all, this is an oscilloscope, which, as you can see, it’s leaning toward the older side, but We try to make do with it. As You can see, I’m setting up the scope, I just attached the probe to the cal port, and I’m adjusting the vertical scale and the horizontal scale, now You can see it’s been set up.
-Professor: What kind of scope is it?
-Luciana: It’s an analog
-Professor: Is it a modern one?
-Luciana: No teacher, this is super old, We could use better equipment
-Professor: That’s fair, now, Camilo, what are You going to show Us?
-Camilo: Well, I’m going to show You the generator, and how the signal looks on the scope, as My classmate said, an analog one, which She supposedly set it up manually, as this doesn’t have auto-set like the modern ones, this also really old, anyway, here We can see the signal being represented on the scope. As You can see, a sinusoidal signal in the kilohertz range.
-Luciana: And, this oscilloscope, being an antique model, doesn’t have readouts, so We need to count squares, which slows down Our work, and counting squares not being very precise, it’s not really effective, and could take Us a long time to set up.
-Valeria: As You can see, We have all these modules, but they are all equipped with the same gear, same kind of oscilloscope.
To conclude, We want to thank You for Your attention, We hope You can see with this video, We could really use better gear, which would allow Us to do better work and receive a better education.
Thank You Dave.
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