Keithley Instruments Inc. is offering a two-day, hands-on course, "Optimizing Remote Control of Instruments in a LabVIEW Environment," designed for scientists, researchers, product engineers, design engineers, and technicians working in a lab setting who need to do fast prototyping of benchtop test systems using instruments from multiple companies. (The course is not intended for those doing production testing, Keithley said.) It will be held Sept. 14 and 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (3 p.m. on the second day) at Keithley's corporate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. Participants will learn how to assemble and configure instruments from a variety of vendors into an efficient test setup and to control all of them from a single software interface. They will also learn how to recognize common test system data communication issues and to steer clear of measurement errors by learning how to coordinate the operation of multiple instruments. It will also cover ways to increase productivity by optimizing instrument and software drivers for specific test needs, and the use of LabVIEW test software to integrate instruments with different types of data communication networks. The course will include practical exercises in a lab setting, short lectures on a variety of related topics and instructor/student discussions. For more information, call (800) 688-9951; e-mail: publisher@keithley.com; or visit: www.keithley.com/events/training/trainingschedule