ElectrizArte: Combining engineering and arts

Yu, Lochi; Abarca, Fabián

doi:10.1109/iedec.2012.6186934

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“…The authors report improvements in communication skills in addition to those in student performance, engagement, and retention. The program ElectrizArte 16 described by Yu et al involves electrical engineering students in the design and implementation of projects involving electrical engineering (analog electronics, digital electronics, programming) to create artistic effects (e.g., photonic harp, LED cube). Completed projects were displayed publicly.…”

Section: Loosening the Straitjacket: Art Initiatives With Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeking New Perspectives: Engineers Experiencing Design through Creative Arts

Beams

Gullings

Ross

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Kyle Gullings is a composer of diverse, versatile music for the stage and concert hall. Through intimate chamber, vocal, and stage settings, his music traverses wide-ranging topics such as Sumerian legends, nuclear war, and the American Dream. He has been named a national finalist in composing competitions sponsored by SCI/ASCAP (twice) and the National Opera Association (one of three works selected).Dr. Gullings is committed to improving the quality and efficiency of undergraduate music theory and composition education through classroom innovation, collaboration, and scholarship. In addition to teaching in the core music theory sequence, he maintains a growing interest in developing, practicing, and sharing efficient assessment methods. SEEKING NEW PERSPECTIVES: ENGINEERS EXPERIENCING DESIGN THROUGH CREATIVE ARTS AbstractThe engineering curriculum of necessity focuses heavily on technical subjects-mathematics, chemistry, physics, and the large body of discipline-specific material. The arts are frequently present only in vestigial form and are regarded as tangential at best to the real engineering curriculum. However, an experience of the creative arts beyond the superficial might reveal that the artist and the engineer are not as different as is usually supposed. The University of Texas at Tyler has conducted an experimental project in which engineering students were encouraged to experience the design process afresh from the perspective of the creative arts. Juniors in electrical engineering worked under the mentorship of arts faculty in a chosen medium (studio art, writing, or music) to produce legitimate works of art that were displayed, performed, or read publicly, and documented how their experiences of design in the arts have informed and shaped their perspectives as engineers. The structure, expectations, and results of this course are described in this paper. A pedagogical crisis presents an opportunityThe BSEE and BSME curricula of the University of Texas at Tyler include a required course entitled "Design Methodology in Engineering." The course's catalog description states that it is "an overview of design activity in engineering" and includes "the product design process; project planning; quality function deployment; design specifications; concept generation and selection; system and subsystem design." This course would appear to have prima facie relevance and value to engineering students; however, its reception among EE students has been lukewarm at best. Thirty-one graduating EE seniors between 2011 and 2013 (the latest years for which data have been compiled) assessed the usefulness of Design Methodology as 2.65 on a scale of 1 -5 with 1 representing "Little Usefulness," 3 representing "Useful," and 5 representing "Essential." (Eight students chose the extremes of this scale, with six choosing "Little Usefulness" compared to two choosing "Essential").Design Methodology had traditionally been taught by Mechanical Engineering faculty to mixed classes of EE and ME students. However, circumstances i...

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Section: Loosening the Straitjacket: Art Initiatives With Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%