Posted: Saturday, April 12, 2008 12:00 am
Lebanon, South Albany and West Albany high schools are among 22 schools statewide to receive new oscilloscopes donated by Tektronix of Beaverton.
Oscilloscopes are used to view and measure signal voltages. The equipment will be used in electronics, engineering and physics classes as well as to support career and technical education programs at many of the schools.
The donations - one to each school - are part of the Tektronix Education Support Program, a company initiative to foster interest in physics and electronics.
"We already started using it, and it's a really slick piece of equipment," said electronics teacher Chava Neuhaus of South Albany High School.
The class already had older oscilloscopes but said the new model produces better readouts and is about "five times smaller and lighter than the big old beasts we had."
Neuhaus is using the new oscilloscope particularly in her robotics class, where students are building small programmable robots. The scope checks the voltage pulses being sent from the computer to the robot, Neuhaus said.
Tektronix supplies test, measurement, and monitoring products and services for the communications, computer and semiconductor industries.
Democrat-Herald