Theassociate degree in engineering technologies at OSUIT allows students to gain hands-on experience both in the classroom and on the job. Mentors with in-field experience pass on the latest practices and techniques in industrial systems engineering, from design to maintenance.
Every aspect of manufacturing or production uses automated components, complex mechanical instruments and electronic and computerized systems. To ensure that the production process runs smoothly, people like automation technicians, electrical technicians and control system technicians must have training in multiple areas such as mechanics, electronic controls, system design and safety regulations.
Both the Electrical Technologies major and the Instrumentation Technology major are designed to be completed in around two years, with a total of 75 course credits taken over five semesters. These Associate of Applied Science degrees comprise a mix of technical engineering core courses, additional major courses to support your specialization and general education courses, along with a paid internship semester with OSUIT industry partners.
Along with technical core courses, the AAS degree curriculum includes supporting STEM major courses and general education courses in areas like communication and ethics, providing students with a well-rounded education and marketable skills that better their professional abilities and open further career opportunities.
Choosing the AAS degree in Engineering Technologies - Electronic Technologies major specialization ensures qualification for entry-level industrial electrical engineering positions such as instrumentation or automation technician, electrical/electronic maintenance technician or control system technician in manufacturing settings.
OSUIT graduates who major in Electronic Technologies enter the workforce backed by skills learned in career-oriented courses focused on college success and post-graduation employment and by building solid relationships with industry employers through the built-in internship.
The Instrumentation Technology major is designed to qualify graduates to design, specify, troubleshoot and manage instrumentation and control systems. This specialization requires higher-level courses in math and science than those required in the Electrical Technologies major and provides further instruction in PLC applications.
Individuals applying to OSUIT typically need to have completed some high school coursework. Test scores are optional, and admission criteria can vary based on any relevant experience or educational background.
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Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology is a recognized leader in applied technology education and is known for world-class teaching facilities, partnerships with industry, and a nearly 90 percent employment rate.*
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An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into a power amplifier which drives a loudspeaker, creating the sound heard by the performer and listener.
An electronic instrument might include a user interface for controlling its sound, often by adjusting the pitch, frequency, or duration of each note. A common user interface is the musical keyboard, which functions similarly to the keyboard on an acoustic piano where the keys are each linked mechanically to swinging string hammers - whereas with an electronic keyboard, the keyboard interface is linked to a synth module, computer or other electronic or digital sound generator, which then creates a sound. However, it is increasingly common to separate user interface and sound-generating functions into a music controller (input device) and a music synthesizer, respectively, with the two devices communicating through a musical performance description language such as MIDI or Open Sound Control. The solid state nature of electronic keyboards also offers differing "feel" and "response", offering a novel experience in playing relative to operating a mechanically linked piano keyboard.
All electronic musical instruments can be viewed as a subset of audio signal processing applications. Simple electronic musical instruments are sometimes called sound effects; the border between sound effects and actual musical instruments is often unclear.
In the 21st century, electronic musical instruments are now widely used in most styles of music. In popular music styles such as electronic dance music, almost all of the instrument sounds used in recordings are electronic instruments (e.g., bass synth, synthesizer, drum machine). Development of new electronic musical instruments, controllers, and synthesizers continues to be a highly active and interdisciplinary field of research. Specialized conferences, such as the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, have organized to report cutting-edge work, as well as to provide a showcase for artists who perform or create music with new electronic music instruments, controllers, and synthesizers.
In musicology, electronic musical instruments are known as electrophones. Electrophones are the fifth category of musical instrument under the Hornbostel-Sachs system. Musicologists typically only classify music as electrophones if the sound is initially produced by electricity, excluding electronically controlled acoustic instruments such as pipe organs and amplified instruments such as electric guitars.
The category was added to the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification system by Sachs in 1940, in his 1940 book The History of Musical Instruments;[1] the original 1914 version of the system did not include it. Sachs divided electrophones into three subcategories:
Francis William Galpin provided such a group in his own classification system, which is closer to Mahillon than Sachs-Hornbostel. For example, in Galpin's 1937 book A Textbook of European Musical Instruments, he lists electrophones with three second-level divisions for sound generation ("by oscillation", "electro-magnetic", and "electro-static"), as well as third-level and fourth-level categories based on the control method.[2]
Present-day ethnomusicologists, such as Margaret Kartomi[3] and Terry Ellingson,[4] suggest that, in keeping with the spirit of the original Hornbostel Sachs classification scheme, if one categorizes instruments by what first produces the initial sound in the instrument, that only subcategory 53 should remain in the electrophones category. Thus, it has been more recently proposed, for example, that the pipe organ (even if it uses electric key action to control solenoid valves) remain in the aerophones category, and that the electric guitar remain in the chordophones category, and so on.
In the 18th-century, musicians and composers adapted a number of acoustic instruments to exploit the novelty of electricity. Thus, in the broadest sense, the first electrified musical instrument was the Denis d'or keyboard, dating from 1753, followed shortly by the clavecin lectrique by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in 1761. The Denis d'or consisted of a keyboard instrument of over 700 strings, electrified temporarily to enhance sonic qualities. The clavecin lectrique was a keyboard instrument with plectra (picks) activated electrically. However, neither instrument used electricity as a sound source.
The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.[5][6] The "Musical Telegraph" was a chance by-product of his telephone technology when Gray discovered that he could control sound from a self-vibrating electromagnetic circuit and so invented a basic oscillator. The Musical Telegraph used steel reeds oscillated by electromagnets and transmitted over a telephone line. Gray also built a simple loudspeaker device into later models, which consisted of a diaphragm vibrating in a magnetic field.
Hugh Le Caine, John Hanert, Raymond Scott, composer Percy Grainger (with Burnett Cross), and others built a variety of automated electronic-music controllers during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her "Oramics" technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.[9] This workshop was also responsible for the theme to the TV series Doctor Who a piece, largely created by Delia Derbyshire, that more than any other ensured the popularity of electronic music in the UK.
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