Learn how collaborations with local industry helped initiate and shape a LabVIEW Certificate Program now being offered by the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The Certificate Program consists of three LabVIEW courses (LabVIEW Basics, LabVIEW Applications and LabVIEW cRIO) taught in parallel with two electronics courses over two semesters. The course topics and homework exercises are drawn from previous and current LabVIEW projects with local companies. Students take the CLAD exam at the end of the final LabVIEW course.