Nicholas,
You should take an independed study and study on your own and maybe you will come up with the great idea on creating a very good speaker.
There are lots of books on speaker designs and since you're becoming an EE with a mix of ME majors you may figure what boock suits you best.
You will also need the basics of acoustics i.e. sound pressure, resonance etc... which I guess you may've went through studying some ME and if not you may figure out when you start reading yourself.