Women in Electronic Musical Instrument Design: A balance shift [Pipelining: Attractive Programs for Women]

When Paul Lehrman, senior lecturer and director of the Tufts University Music Engineering program, shared with the
IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine
team that female students outnumbered male in both his Electronic Musical Instrument Design (EMID) and Computer Tools for Musicians courses in the Fall 2022 semester, we thought this shift in gender balance might make an interesting story. But when I spoke to a couple of Lehrman’s female students and his female teaching assistant (TA), they had not even noticed. And in many ways, that’s the best story of all.