Innovation Engineering

Units 3, 4 and 5:

In the bustling academic community of Innovation Engineering, where students are feverishly working towards completing their academic goals, many students are on the cusp of completing their fourth unit*:

● Electronics

● Mechanisms

● Modeling

● Hardware design

● Mechanics

● Microcontrollers

● Systems

● Advanced microcontrollers (IoT)

*(Choice of unit depends on the unit studied prior, in some cases, where one student may be studying electronics as a fourth unit, another may be studying the same unit as their fifth.)

But there are those who decided to take on more ambitious projects in the early days of the course, innovators and engineers who are still putting those finishing touches on their third, fourth or fifth unit. Amidst all this activity, there has been a host of exciting and challenging units explored. From Mechanisms to Electronics, Microcontrollers to the advancement of such chips, Hardware Design to Modelling, there has been no shortage of fascinating subjects for these ambitious, hungry for knowledge learners to get their teeth sunk into.

Music

Unit 3: Music with Purpose - Music for social and political change; music to persuade; music in protest; and music in advertising

After learning about community music-making and individual music-making through a series of performance, recording and composition projects, the students are now studying music that communicates concrete views and ideas. This is a great opportunity to get a bit more technical so we are using music theory and analysis, with particular focus on melody, harmony, texture, instrumentation and structure, to unpack how a selection of case study pieces have represented important topics. One example of this is the Shostakovich piano trio No 2 which deals with Jewish identity and grief. The students are also developing their understanding of these elements through practical composition exercises in class, developing their compositional technique and connecting it to the overall themes. The unit will give students a thorough understanding of how music is used to persuade, while deepening their technical understanding of music theory, analysis and compositional skills.