Music, Signals & Systems: Non-disciplined Education in a Multi-Campus Setting

参与机构：堪萨斯罗文大学州立大学项目描述该项目提供了一个通识教育课程的模型，支持将知识视为所有学科之间的连续统一体，并强调音乐和工程之间存在的协同作用。 该课程，“音乐，信号系统”，将解决音乐作曲和电子信号分析和生成的合并主题。该项目涉及罗文大学和堪萨斯州立大学的电子和计算机工程系以及音乐系之间的合作。通过从工程系统的角度探索创意音乐创作，学生们接触到音乐和工程的基本概念，强调学科的协同作用，培养学生的创造力。这门课程没有数学或音乐的先决条件，它是一个例子，以反对“通识教育”的概念，因为它是与特定学位课程相关的学习之外的东西。主题正在从整体的角度进行处理，涉及系统工程和音乐作曲项目。更广泛的意义该项目促进了知识作为所有学科之间的连续统一体的观点，并将强调音乐和工程之间存在的协同作用。它希望为学生提供一个教育经验，将刺激终身学习，提供一个模型，为大学如何能够提供一个学习平台，是适合学生教师的需求。它利用模块化仪器的商业线创建一个学生笔记本电脑为基础的实验室，可以移动到任何地方的音乐可能会演变。

Participating Institutions: Rowan University, Kansas State University Project DescriptionThis project is offering a model for a general-education course that supports a view of knowledge as a continuum among all disciplines and will emphasize the synergies that exist between music and engineering. The course, "Music, Signals & Systems", will address the merged topics of music composition and electronic signal analysis and generation. The project involves collaboration among the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments and the Music Departments of both Rowan University and Kansas State University. Through exploring creative music composition from an engineering systems point of view, students are being exposed to concepts that are fundamental to both music and engineering, emphasizing the synergy of the disciplines and fostering the students' creativity. The course, which doesn't have mathematics or music prerequisites, is serving as an example to counter the notion of "general education" as something that is outside of learning that is associated with specific degree program curricula. Topics are being treated from a holistic perspective involving combined systems-engineering and music-composition projects.Broader SignificanceThe project promotes a view of knowledge as a continuum among all disciplines and will emphasize the synergies that exist between music and engineering. It hopes to provide students with an educational experience that will stimulate lifelong learning, offering a model for how the university can provide a learning platform that is appropriate for the needs of both student & faculty. It utilizes a commercial line of modular instruments to create a student-laptop based laboratory that can be moved to wherever the music may evolve.