Wiedmann, S. (2016, June), Interdisciplinarity as Inspiration: A Case Study  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25440

\bibitem{asee_peer_25440}
  Wiedmann, S. (2016, June), \emph{Interdisciplinarity as Inspiration: A Case Study}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.25440

Skot Wiedmann.  "Interdisciplinarity as Inspiration: A Case Study".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://strategy.asee.org/25440 Internet.  17 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_25440}
  Skot Wiedmann.
  "Interdisciplinarity as Inspiration: A Case Study".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://strategy.asee.org/25440 Internet.  17 Jul, 2024

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AB  - Workshops held in 2014 and 2015 saw over 200 participants building their own touch synthesizer. This series of soldering workshops brought together engineering, music, and design ideas to inspire and engage a wide range of people. This synthesizer was designed to transcend a skill building activity through an interdisciplinary approach to making. By emphasizing the aesthetics and musicality of the end result, the promotion of the event aimed to broaden K12, community and non-engineering student participation by attracting creative people to learn technical skills alongside the electrical engineering students who typically attend soldering workshops. The assembly process taught participants surface mount soldering with a paste stencil and hot air. These techniques gave them an understanding of how industrial manufacturing works, and could be completed in under 2 hours. Each participant left with a pocket-sized polyphonic analog synthesizer. 60 simultaneous notes are controlled by multi-touch gestures in three dimensions on the surface of the instrument. The notes are arranged on 2 different keyboard layouts, one resembling a piano and the other formed by a grid of hexagons. Large attendance and continuing demand for touch synthesizer workshop sessions illustrates how a new approach to engineering exercises focusing on an interdisciplinary perspective can create a more holistic idea of the purpose of students' education and inspire learners to passionately engage with their curriculum. 

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