It is well known that creating an active and exciting learning environment significantly helps students get involved in the class. This is extremely important in engineering courses which are very complicated in nature. Music is a great tool to make classes more engaging and has been successfully deployed in many areas such as history, social studies and ESL classes. However, it is quite challenging to merge music with the most basic engineering courses, which significantly involve mathematics. One of the basic and quite challenging courses for electrical engineering and computer science students is Signals and Systems. The course contains complicated but very essential materials which form the foundation for digital signal processing and control theory courses. The traditional teaching approach (pure math) of this course makes it very boring for students. Moreover, students with a weak math background consider this course as one of the most difficult courses in the curriculum. In this workshop, taking advantage of music as a teaching approach is proposed to make courses more attractive and engaging for students.

This workshop is facilitated by Iman Moazzen, PhD candidate in ELEC, one of this year's Andy Farquharson award winners for graduate student teaching excellence.

To register, visit the Teaching and Learning Centre here.