Carnegie Mellon Engineering




Minor in Audio Engineering

This sequence is for candidates who are engineering majors with interest in and/or have background in music, recording, sound-editing and/or other music technology areas; or majors from any discipline in the university who have the above interests and who can meet the pre-requisite requirements for the engineering courses in the minor.

Note: Students who do not have the requisite engineering/science/math background should investigate the Minor in Music Technology offered by the School of Music.

 

Director

Tom Sullivan

 

Course Requirements

The student must have taken the appropriate pre-requisite courses for the listed courses.

 

Prerequisite Courses, 0/3 units

Beginning Piano is required of students who do not pass a piano proficiency test.

57-103  Beginning Piano, 3 units

 

Music Courses, 40/43 units

Basic Harmony I is required of students who do not qualify for entrance into Harmony I, based on their scores on the theory placement test.


57-149 Basic Harmony I or 57-152 Harmony I, 6 units

57-173 Survey of Western Music History (co-req 57-188), 9 units

57-188 Repertoire and Listening for Musicians, 1 unit

57-101  Introduction to Music Technology, 6 units

57-337  Sound Recording I, 6 units


(choose two of the courses below)

57-347  Electronic and Computer Music, 6 units

57-338  Sound Editing and Production, 6 units

57-438  MultiTrack Recording, 9 units

 

Technical Courses, 33 units

Other courses may be taken with the approval of the advisor for engineering minors.


33-114  Physics of Musical Sound, 9 units

18-493  Electro-Acoustics (pre-reqs 18-220 and 18-290), 12 units 

 

(choose one of the courses below)

18-491  Digital Signal Processing (pre-req 18-290), 12 units   

18-551  Sig. Proc. System Design (pre-req 18-290), 12 units  

18-321 Anal. Design of Analog Ckts. (pre-req 18-220), 12 units  

Units required for minor: 73/79

 

Note:

18-220:  Electronic Devices and Analog Circuits

18-290:  Signal and Information Processing