Category Archives: Collaboration

Makerspace Bootcamp

Meg Worley, Colgate University

Makerspaces (aka hacklabs, hackerspaces, hacker dojos, etc.) are communal workshops where members share tools, ideas, and skills to build physical objects.  We will be focusing on makerspaces within the educational environment — how to start one at your institution (gathering support, planning space, considering technical requirements, lining up funding) and how to integrate it into both the curriculum and the life of the campus.  This will be half bootcamp and half brainstorming session, and it should be of equal appeal to those new to the idea and those who are already deeply involved in thriving makerspaces.

Music and Electrical Engineering Bootcamp

Palma Catravas, John Cox, Dianne McMullen, Union College

Come experience a real world example of how a collaboration between Music and Electrical Engineering provides an interdisciplinary experience for students.  Participate in singing and recording a well-known folk melody with Union’s Camerata Singers and a music history class in several locations on campus and then come back to listen and analyze those sound recordings with students taking a course in digital signal processing.  Participants will leave with an understanding of how these two disciplines can be integrated to provide students experiences from two very different perspectives.