- Department: Electronic Engineering
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
- See module specification for other years: 2023-24
This module helps you to design and develop an original research project, assessing and evaluating current literature on the chosen topic. You will learn about project management and research techniques, and apply them to a personal research blog, conference presentation, and literature survey in your chosen area. You will also gain a broad understanding of the state of the art in audio and music technology research. We cover qualitative and qualitative methods of audio research through a series of focussed lectures delivered by AudioLab staff as well as other audio researchers within the University. You will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of audio experimentation, methods of perceptual audio evaluation, acoustic analysis and commonly encountered test paradigms. You will be introduced to a wide variety of research topics related to the fields of immersive and interactive audio, voice science, environmental sound, audio production and post-production and audio accessibility amongst others.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2024-25 |
Subject content aims:
To give students an understanding of the state of the art in international audio research, and especially the audio research at the University of York
To give students an understanding of audio systems prototyping, measurement and testing, and perceptual audio evaluation
To investigate an area of interest within Audio and Music Technology and scope an extended research project in the context of state of the art audio research
To design and develop an original research project, assessing and evaluating current literature on the chosen topic.
Graduate skills aims:
To work individually to research a related topic in the field of audio engineering and present methods of evaluation.
To develop research skills, and experience of technical prototyping
To communicate research to peers and the general public
To participate in event management: including marketing, financial planning, management and reporting to clients, activity scheduling, communication, team working, client management, implementation
To hone skills in autonomous task planning and self motivation and management.
After successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Graduate skills learning outcomes
After successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Personal, Project and Group Management & Communication
(2 hour session per week, weeks 1-7, and self-study videos)
[These are all co-taught with the School ACT, Music Dept]
The following lectures are given on the topic of research methods:
Research Methods (1 hour session per week, weeks 1-7):
Audio Lab Mini Keynote (3 * 1 hour sessions per week, Weeks 2-4)
The module includes (for MSc students only) a series of Mini Keynote sessions from various staff,
front-loaded at the start of the semester, with the aim of informing the student’s project choice. Topics
include:
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 0 |
Essay/coursework | 80 |
Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 20 |
None
There are 3 components to the assessment which allow you to explore how to communicate your developing project work:
to experts (Literature review & project plan),
to peers (Video of a research talk), and
to the general public (Blog)
In addition there is a Formative Assessment in Week 5, where MSc students submit their Project
Proposals.
See the ‘Summative Feedback’ section below for more details.
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 80 |
Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 20 |
Formative Feedback
You will have opportunities to debate the various topics in a class of peers from multiple departments.
An interactive website helps you to share your ideas and get feedback from your peers as well as from the Module Coordinator.
Emails to the Module Coordinator with Questions / Comments will be answered as soon as possible.
Questions can also be submitted at any time via the Question Box on the module Wiki page.
Summative Feedback
There are three very different modes of assessment for this module, each of which helps you to develop a different facet of your project.
Hunt, A., Managing Your Project: Achieving Success with Minimal Stress, CreateSpace (2016)
ISBN-10 : 1537212206
ISBN-13 : 978-1537212203
(Extracts from this book will be made available to students taking this module).