Why ADInstruments?
ADInstruments produces the world's leading data acquisition system for life science education, PowerLab. We package the PowerLab system with software and equipment to provide complete, innovative solutions suited for introductory courses through to postgraduate studies. We support our products with quality and safety certifications, customer resources and a global network of experienced representatives.
Experiments for all Curriculum Levels: ADInstruments LabTutor and LabChart software provide an extensive range of experiments for students enrolled in introductory courses through to post-graduate studies. Use LabAuthor software to create or modify your own experiments.
Complete Teaching Systems: Get complete systems with all the equipment you need to start your life science experiments including amplifiers, transducers and accessories at an economical price.
Certified Safety and Quality: Our entire range of biopotential signal conditioners for use on humans are approved to international standards including the IEC 60601-1 patient safety standard, making it safe for student connection in laboratory classrooms. All ADInstruments products are manufactured under a quality system complying with the requirements of ISO 9001:2000. All PowerLab data acquisition systems are calibrated and tested to ensure delivery of a precise and reliable product.
Over 20 Years of Innovation: Our team of scientists, programmers and engineers continue to develop powerful products that help researchers. Your product feedback goes directly to our product development team.
More Users Worldwide: PowerLab systems have been installed in over 23,000 colleges, universities, medical schools and teaching hospitals worldwide. Find out how some of these are used (link to new Users in Focus – education section) and what customers say about PowerLab systems.
Global Support Network: With a network of ADInstruments offices and distributors in over 50 countries around the world, we are the largest data acquisition company for life scientists. Our large team of highly-qualified and experienced representatives share a common commitment to providing excellent training and support to all customers, everywhere.
Education Testimonials
“The hardware sets up with a minimum of cabling, and the connectors seem
to be impossible to misconnect; the simplicity of the hardware allows me to
have students set up on their own rather than having to do it for them… The
software interface is also very simple and easy to use, and because it uses
standard terminology for the physiological variables there is no translation
needed. From a teaching point of view, this is ideal… The PowerLab system has
served us so well that we have never regretted the decision to buy.”
- Dr. Lundy Pentz, Mary Baldwin College, USA
“I have used the
ADInstruments research PowerLab system for several years and recently we have
also introduced the Advanced Teaching System (with LabTutor software) in our
student lab. Besides being easy to learn and use it has also changed the way
students work. Earlier, most student lab exercises were run by an assistant
that instructed the students on how the equipment worked and how to run the lab
exercises. Now many of the exercises are run by students themselves from start
to report writing. The role of the assistant in this situation is more to help
the students with the scientific part of the exercise instead of the technical
side of the lab. With the introduction of the LabTutor system the process of
setting up an running the lab exercises has been even easier, allowing the
students even more time to focus on the subject matter instead of the technical
aspects.”
- Prof. Michael Axelsson, Goteborg University, Department of Zoology, Sweden
“The software and tech
support is excellent. The teaching experiments from the website have setting
files for all the experiments. Students do not have to set all the channel
variables when prepping for their experiment. This was an immeasurable
improvement over our previous setup. The teaching experiments also have student
protocols, instructor guides, sample data files, and formatted laboratory
reports. I modify the student protocols for specific exercises and analyses
that I want the students to conduct and post them on BlackBoard. The protocols
and reports are in MS Word format and are fully modifiable. In class the
students are able to copy and paste portions of their data files and analyses
directly into their lab reports.”
- Carol Britson, University of Mississippi, USA
“Our students find PowerLab to be a powerful and above all else easy to use platform for collecting data from a wide range of animal models including humans. The design and data collection capacity is almost transparent to our students. I am astonished at how easy PowerLab is to use in the large Human Anatomy and Physiology class (140 students per semester). Students come up to speed on its use after only 1 hour with the ADInstruments designed tutorial. The instructor has little direction to give the students and instead spends their time on explaining the physiology behind why the system operates the way it does. In short PowerLab is a God-send. I don't know how I taught without it.”
- Dr. Giovanni Casotti, Professor of Biology, West Chester University, USA
“As this is a new school, we wanted technologically advanced equipment that was also cost effective. The PowerLab LabTutor System was the obvious choice. I liked the ease of use and immediate start. The background information included within the LabTutor interface gives students the information they need to contextualize their experiments, and to proceed without a general introduction and verbal instruction on how to set up the equipment. By allowing students to work independently and virtually eliminating set-up time, the PowerLab LabTutor Systems allowed us to reduce staffing requirements for the new school. Indeed, I can run a practical class of 55 students with only one academic. Students ask relevant questions on the physiology, rather than questions related to setting up the equipment. A three hour prac can now be run comfortably in two hours, with some students completing all exercises and the report in only 90 minutes.”
- Professor Vaughan G Macefield, School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Australia
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- P2T 2012
- DPG 2012
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