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In this directory are the PDF files for the paper titled

"Imparting knowledge and skills at the forefront of
interdiscinterdisciplinary research - a case study on course design at
the intersection of music and engineering"
by Elaine Chew (echew@usc.edu)

The paper was presented at the 
36th Annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference 
- Borders: International, Social, Cultural
San Diego, CA.  October 28-31, 2006.

The paper is published in the
Proceedings of the 36th Annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference 
- Borders: International, Social, Cultural
Click on reference.txt for the BibTeX reference.

The conference website is at 
http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2006

THE COMPLETE PAPER, text with figures, can be viewed as a PDF document.
Click on ec-fie2006.pdf if you wish to view the paper in PDF format.

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"Imparting knowledge and skills at the forefront of
interdiscinterdisciplinary research - a case study on course design at
the intersection of music and engineering" 
by Elaine Chew (echew@usc.edu)

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a constructivist approach to advanced
course development in an interdisciplinary field by focusing on a case
study at the intersection of music and engineering. Engineering
approaches to music modeling and cognition is a fast growing and
rapidly evolving focus of study due to the explosion of digital music
information.  The challenges of designing a course to impart the
expertise necessary to innovate at the forefront of the field include
the lack of a formal body of scholarly knowledge in the form of a
text, the lack of formal structures to support the course in the
traditional disciplinary framework, the relatively small number of
students with suitably strong backgrounds in both computing and music,
and misconceptions about the nature of music research. The paper
describes how these obstacles were surmounted. An outcome of the
course was dissemination of organized knowledge and example projects
through the web as a resource for the community.

Index Terms - Interdisciplinary curriculum design, Music and
Engineering, Constructivist approach, Hands-on learning.