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Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering – (B.Sc.)
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)
Bachelor's Programmes| Application Deadline: | Summer semester: March 23; International: February 1; Winter semester: October 21; International: September 1 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | Free - ≈ € 760 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Graz / Austria / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | March, October |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 180 | ||
| Languages: | German | ||
Location of Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)
The inter-university course of study in Electrical Engineering and Sound Engineering is offered by Graz University of Technology together with the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz.
The professional field of activity of graduates includes the field of IT and takes into special account audio engineering, studio and recording technology, signal processing, acoustics and computer music and also includes neighbouring interdisciplinary subject areas. Graduates usually have their professional focus in the areas of research, development, planning and design in specific areas.
In their own specialised field, they gain well-founded technical and scientific as well as musical and artistic knowledge and develop abilities to solve complex interdisciplinary problems. The Electrical Engineering and Sound Engineering field of study is the best proof that the strict boundaries between engineering and art can be creatively and efficiently lifted. Students are offered a practice-oriented education at the cutting edge in the excellently equipped premises of the Department of Communications and Wave Propagation (Graz University of Technology) and the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz).
Career Opportunities
Graduates of Electrical Engineering and Sound Engineering are frequently employed in:
* Industrial research, development and production departments, preferably in the fields of audio and studio engineering, acoustics and telecommunication;
* Planning departments in industry, business, art and culture, as well as in the public sector;
* In the teaching and further-education professions.
Contents
The Electrical Engineering and AudioEngineering degree course combines a technological and scientific education with an academic artistic one in the form of a unique co-operation between Graz University of Technology and the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz. The bachelor degree programme comprises six semesters and is divided into two parts. The entire bachelor degree programme comprises 180 ECTS credits. Graduates are awarded the academic degree of "Bachelor of Science" (BSc).
The first part - also called the orientation year - lasts two semesters and offers introductory courses in the basics of music theory, mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering and information technology.
In the second part, composed of four semesters, an in-depth expansion of the basic knowledge is undertaken. There are lectures in audio engineering and acoustics, studio and recording techniques, and computer music.
The four-semester master´s programme in Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering builds on the Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering bachelor programme.
Requirements
For admission to the course of studies, an artistic aptitude test has to be taken.
This consists of the following three parts:
1. Written hearing test 1: This tests differential thresholds for frequency, intensity and tone length by means of comparing pairs, and the ability to differentiate between tone colours as well as tone and rhythm memory.
2. Written hearing test 2: This includes a melody and rhythm dictation and the recognition of modes, tempos, triads and instruments. Furthermore, errors in a printed score of a musical example are to be detected. All examples are played several times.
3. Written music theory test: This tests knowledge of music theory, such as the formation of intervals, formation of scales including scalar triads, scale analysis, chord inversions and rhythm notation.
An accompanying mathematics placement test is offered with the artistic aptitude admission test. This tests an aspect of scientific knowledge using mathematics tasks at secondary school graduate level, such as: curve sketching, arithmetic with complex numbers, interpreting diagrams, integral and differential calculus, sequences and series, trigonometry, and solving equations.
The accompanying mathematics placement test is not part of the admission test for artistic aptitude. Instead, it serves to invite applicants who passed the admission test but who scored poorly on the mathematics placement test to a meeting to inform them about the contents and objectives of the Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering programme before the programme starts. The entitlement to a place in the programme based on the results of the artistic admission test remains unaffected, and is independent of the result of the accompanying mathematics placement test.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | High School diploma |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
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