[sdiy] May run class again this Spring

[Josh Forgione]

My $0.02-

Analog synthesizer building is now a very niche field.  College students 
deserve educational opportunities to gain skills which are relevant in the 
workplace.

That's not to devalue the analog education.  The lessons learned via analog 
design are priceless, especially if you want to be a hardware engineer.  But 
fundamentally a person looking for a career in the audio industry will have 
an easier time finding work with a digital/dsp background.   And I'm 
guessing if your class is pretty good you'll have at least a couple students 
inspired to work in the audio industry.

So though this is a synth diy mailing list, and I happen to find analog 
design more interesting, I'd recommend against any short-changing of the 
digital material.  Two courses if you can swing it.

Josh


>From: Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] May run class again this Spring
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:31:53 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Benjamin Riggs wrote:
>
>>A great teaching asset lost. Are you running the classes again (I enjoyed
>>the first set of online lectures)? Some new projects maybe?
>
>It looks like it'll run again this Spring. I'm thinking of rearranging it - 
>I tried doing analog and digital, but the digital stuff at the end got 
>orphaned - I didn't give them and homework or projects on it, since they 
>were all working on their analog project. So... I'm thinking of rearranging 
>it as a "lecture/lab" class instead of a "lecture" class, as far as 
>scheduling goes, front-load the lecturing, and let them work on their 
>projects full-time the last month or so without me lecturing.
>
>Then... I could put together a second course focusing on digital stuff. I 
>could set it up so you could take the courses in either order.
>
>I just don't feel like I can do analog and digital in one semester and 
>given them both justice.
>
>- Aaron
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