Course overview
This course aims to teach students the fundamentals and applications of engineering acoustics. This is achieved by expanding on learners existing knowledge and exposing them to applications and industry professionals. The course covers the topics 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.
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