CreATE : Creative Audio Technology Environment

跨学科（99）多学科，以项目为基础的教育是在罗文大学新成立的工程学院正在开发的工程课程的主要标志。常见的8学期临床序列本质上是多学科的，因为它是由所有工程专业的学生同时采取。然而，工业中的多学科团队通常由非技术人员和技术人员组成。为了鼓励创建包含工程和文科专业的多学科团队，必须创建吸引广泛受众的项目主题。音乐是一个话题，本质上团结大学年龄的学生，无论他们的专业，种族，宗教或性别。创意音频技术环境（CREATE）利用音乐的统一主题，鼓励由工程师和音乐以及其他文科学生组成的多样化产品开发团队的创建。罗文大学的创意音频技术环境（CREATE）是一个多学科的音频开发工作室和实验室，来自大学三个不同学院的学生在创新的音频设计项目上进行合作。位于音乐系的专用设施内，但在工程，音乐和物理的学生和教师之间平等共享，CREATE包含一个专用的24通道混音控制台和录音设备，包括8轨ADAT，DAT，模拟盒式磁带和CD录音机。开发工作室还包括麦克风，音频效果处理器，放大器，监视器和HP频谱分析仪。罗文大学创意音频技术环境的目标是：1.为学生提供最先进的音频开发工作室，以鼓励音频相关产品的快速产品开发，2。向工程专业学生介绍考虑客户的重要性（例如，音乐专业学生）开发满足所需客户属性的优质产品，3.促进工程专业，不仅对工程专业的学生，但文科和美术专业的学生，以及，通过允许一个多元化的学生团体参加产品开发的奋进与音乐作为基本主题，这是一个本质上团结学生和教师的主题一样，4。提供一个实验室，教授音乐和声音的科学原理，以多学科的观众。拟议的CreATE实验室是一个适应和实施的几个现有的课程和实验室计划在全国各地（迈阿密，WPI，格鲁吉亚技术和KSU），其中使用音频相关的项目作为一种手段，介绍电子原理，声音和振动，和产品开发。 思想和材料被改编的主要程序例子是堪萨斯州立大学。 Create实验室结合了该计划（和其他）的最佳方面，并通过确保与音乐系的学生和教师进行积极，定期的互动来增强多学科部分。

Interdisciplinary (99)Multidisciplinary, project-based education is a major hallmark of the engineering curriculum under development at the newly created College of Engineering at Rowan University. The common 8-semester clinic sequence is inherently multidisciplinary since it is taken simultaneously by all engineering students. However, multidisciplinary teams in industry are usually comprised of non-technical as well as technical personnel. To encourage the creation of multidisciplinary teams that contain both engineering and liberal arts majors, project topics must be created that appeal to a wide audience. Music is a topic that inherently unites college age students regardless of their major, ethnicity, religion or sex. The Creative Audio Technology Environment (CREATE) capitalizes on the unifying theme of music to encourage creation of diverse product development teams made up of engineers and music and other liberal arts students.The Creative Audio Technology Environment (CREATE) at Rowan University is a multidisciplinary audio development studio and laboratory wherein students from three different colleges within the university collaborate on innovative audio design projects. Housed in a dedicated facility within the Department of Music but shared equally among students and faculty from engineering, music and physics, CREATE contains a dedicated 24-channel mixing console and audio recording equipment consisting of an 8-track ADAT, DAT, analog cassette and CD recorders. The development studio also contains microphones, audio effects processors, amplifiers, monitors and an HP spectrum analyzer.The objectives of the Creative Audio Technology Environment at Rowan University are to: 1. Provide students with a state-of-the-art audio development studio to encourage rapid product development of audio related products, 2. Introduce engineering students to the importance of considering the customer (e.g., music students) to develop a quality product that meets desired customer attributes, 3. Promote the profession of engineering, not only to engineering students, but to liberal and fine arts students as well, by allowing a diverse student body to take part in a product development endeavor with music as the underlying theme, a theme which inherently unites students and faculty alike, 4. Provide a laboratory to teach the scientific principles of music and sound to a multidisciplinary audience.The proposed CreATE laboratory is an adaptation and implementation of several existing courses and laboratory programs throughout the country (Miami, WPI, Georgia Tech and KSU) which have used audio related projects as a means of presenting principles of electronics, sound and vibration, and product development. The major program example from which ideas and materials are adapted is that of Kansas State University. The CreATE laboratory combines the best aspects of this program (and others) and enhances the multidisciplinary component by ensuring that there is an active, regular interaction with students and faculty in the music department.