{"id":1167,"date":"2009-03-17T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2017-06-20T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:52:16","slug":"building-guitars-at-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2009\/03\/17\/building-guitars-at-sinclair\/","title":{"rendered":"Building guitars at Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Electronic Engineer major Grant Wilmot works on his electric guitar. To personalize his guitar, Wilmot put his bands logo and name "Catnip" on the body.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being a college student, it’s expected to finish a class with a grain of knowledge gained. After finishing this class, students leave with a self-built electric guitar, too.<\/p>\n

Its official title is Manufacturing and Production Management-guitar design. The objective of the course is to walk away with a sense of production and manufacturing skills, according to Mechanical Engineering professor Tom Singer.<\/p>\n

“The concept of the class came from Purdue University,” Singer said. “What we did was we took the concepts off of the senior class and brought them down to a production and development class.”<\/p>\n

Singer serves as the instructor for the guitar design course (Engineering Technology Design 297). The class was made available due to a National Science Foundation grant.<\/p>\n

“Basically, the students get to do some design, they learn about production and manufacturing,” Singer said. “Each of the steps on how to manufacture a product is what this class is ultimately about.”<\/p>\n

Students buy their own kit that includes everything needed to build a guitar.\u00a0 The kit runs for $170, which Singer said equal out to two books.<\/p>\n

“Everything they need to build a guitar is in the kit,” Singer said. “There is nothing they had to spend out of pocket to build, unless they wanted something special or unique.”<\/p>\n

\"Automation<\/a>
Automation and Control major Angela Profitt puts some of the final touches on her guitar. "It's a little difficult," she said about the class. "You have to be precise."<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ETD 297 is offered as a technical elective for most majors. The three-credit hour course debuted during winter quarter and will be available again in the fall, according to Singer.<\/p>\n

“I thought it was something fun to do,” said Automation and Control major Angela Profitt. “It’s been a pretty cool class.”<\/p>\n

Each student is able to personalize his or her guitar’s design. Profitt decided to give her guitar a personal touch by engraving the lyrics to “King of Pain” by “The Police” into the body with a laser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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