{"id":842,"date":"2023-02-16T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=842"},"modified":"2024-05-22T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:08:19","slug":"hands-on-guitar-lab-one-of-purdues-most-popular-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q1\/hands-on-guitar-lab-one-of-purdues-most-popular-courses","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on \u2018guitar lab\u2019 one of Purdue\u2019s most popular courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Media are encouraged to share, post and publish this&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stories.purdue.edu\/hands-on-guitar-lab-is-one-of-purdues-most-popular-courses\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">content<\/a><\/strong><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>In the technology course Stringed Instrument Design and Manufacture, Purdue students combine engineering and manufacturing skills with teamwork to design, build and take home their very own guitar. It\u2019s a one-of-a-kind college experience that\u2019s open to all majors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mechanical engineering technology professor Mark French teaches \u201cguitar lab,\u201d which is one of the most popular courses on campus. He finds that his background has greatly influenced his instruction style and created a unique ability to connect with students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have an advantage that most professors don\u2019t have,\u201d he says. \u201cI was never an especially good student.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stories.purdue.edu\/hands-on-guitar-lab-is-one-of-purdues-most-popular-courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more on The Persistent Pursuit website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"note\" class=\"post-content__attribution \">\n    <div class=\"columns\"> \n                    <div class=\"column\"> \n                <p class=\"post-content__source\">\n                    <strong>Media contact:\u00a0<\/strong>Brian Huchel,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bhuchel@purdue.edu\">bhuchel@purdue.edu<\/a>                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media are encouraged to share, post and publish this&nbsp;content.&nbsp; WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; In the technology course Stringed Instrument Design and Manufacture, Purdue students combine engineering and manufacturing skills with teamwork to design, build and take home their very own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}