Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering
Early bird registration for the 2025 Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering is $150 for the 2-day event. Early bird registration ends on March 31, 2025, at which time registration will increase to $200. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided during the event.
Please reach out to fusion-studio@purdue.edu with any questions you may have regarding this year’s event.
PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR PRESENTER ANNOUNCEMENTS
What is the Symposium?

The live entertainment industry presents increasingly complex challenges for technicians—whether in small community theatres or in large theme parks. At the same time, the shape of post-secondary education is changing—with an increasing emphasis on hands-on learning and outcome-based instructional design becoming the norm. At the convergence of these threads is the need to effectively prepare and educate students to enter the rapidly changing world of live entertainment technology.
Typically held in late July, the annual Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering highlights advances, challenges, and trends in curricular design, instructional design, academic research, and cross-disciplinary work related to the intersection of engineering and live entertainment. This symposium is specifically aimed at building bridges between two exceptionally different academic and professional cultures and practices; presentations come from many different backgrounds and academic experiences. Symposium topics explore the interstitial spaces amongst the disciplines of engineering, theatre technology, and education.
Past Symposium Books

July 28-29, 2023
West Lafayette, Indiana