Studies the management of occupational noise and vibration in industrial settings.
Basics of Acoustics: This includes understanding the properties of sound, such as frequency, amplitude, and wavelength.
Sound Transmission: Understanding how sound propagates through different media, such as air, water, and solids.
Room Acoustics: Understanding how sound behaves in enclosed spaces, such as offices, factories, and performance halls.
Noise Control: Techniques used to reduce or eliminate unwanted noise, such as sound barriers, sound insulation, and acoustic enclosures.
Sound Measurement: Understanding how sound is measured and the different types of measuring instruments used, such as sound level meters and octave band analyzers.
Occupational Noise Exposure: Understanding the effects of noise exposure on workers and the regulations surrounding noise exposure limits in the workplace.
Vibration Control: Techniques used to reduce or eliminate unwanted vibrations, such as vibration dampers and isolation mounts.
Psychoacoustics: Understanding how people perceive sound and the impact of sound on human health and well-being.
Architectural Acoustics: Understanding how the design of buildings can affect sound quality, such as acoustic treatments and the placement of speakers.
Signal Processing: Techniques used to analyze and manipulate sound signals, such as digital signal processing and filtering.
Environmental noise control: Environmental noise control refers to the reduction or elimination of excessive noise in the environment, often generated by industrial or commercial activities.
Architectural acoustics: Architectural acoustics is concerned with the design and implementation of acoustic treatments within buildings and other structures, to enhance communication, enhance the quality of speech, and improve overall sound quality.
Noise measurement and analysis: Noise measurement and analysis involves the use of measuring instruments to detect and quantify sound levels in various settings, such as outdoor environments or within industrial facilities.
Acoustic insulation: Acoustic insulation involves the use of materials and designs to prevent sound transmission from one area to another, such as the use of acoustic barriers to reduce the sound transmitted from a busy freeway to a nearby residential area.
Industrial noise control: Industrial noise control is concerned with the reduction or elimination of excessive noise generated by industrial processes, often through the use of noise barriers, sound-absorbing materials, and other techniques.
Underwater acoustics: Underwater acoustics is concerned with the propagation of sound waves in water, and the use of sound in underwater communication and navigation.
Medical acoustics: Medical acoustics involves the application of acoustic principles in medical technologies, such as ultrasound imaging.
Aerospace acoustics: Aerospace acoustics is concerned with the study of sound in the aerospace environment, such as the noise generated by jet engines or the sonic boom produced by supersonic flight.
Psychoacoustics: Psychoacoustics is concerned with the study of the perception of sound by humans and other animals, focusing on issues such as sound localization, perception of frequency and amplitude, and the effects of background noise on communication.
Musical acoustics: Musical acoustics is concerned with the physics of sound production and transmission in musical instruments, and the analysis and measurement of various musical parameters.