Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Project to Create Musical Effect Box

This paper reports on a team of undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering Technology and Music and Arts Technology.The students developed a protype musical effects module utilizing real-time digital signal processing.The students defined the effects, selected a DSP development platform, designed a user interface.As a team, they created programs using applications from both the music and engineering technology curriculums.By leveraging tools from Lean Six-Sigma DMADV process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify) the students were able to go from concept to prototype in seven weeks.