Course overview
The fundamentals of sound wave description and propagation, noise control techniques, the hearing mechanism, acoustic instrumentation, noise criteria, psychoacoustics, sound source types and radiated sound fields, outdoor sound propagation, sound power measurement techniques, sound in enclosed spaces, sound transmission loss, acoustic enclosures, acoustic barriers, pipe lagging and reactive and dissipative mufflers.
Course learning outcomes
- Understand the principles of acoustics
- Be able to assess complex occupational and environmental noise problems using acceptable assessment criteria
- Understand noise source types and of how sound propagates outdoors
- Understand sound fields in rooms and how they may be controlled
- Be able to design noise control fixtures and develop strategies to reduce occupational and environmental noise to acceptable levels
- Have a deep understanding of the responsibility of engineers to the community in terms of providing a safe healthy environment
- Understand the need to undertake lifelong learning