promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

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Introduction to Applied Acoustics

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Docent
  • Hervé Lissek
Type
Lecture
Term
autumn semester
Subject type
Optional
Study path
Electrical Engineering
Specialisation/branch
Information and Communication Technologies
Keywords
Fundamental acoustics: sound fields definition, energy, wave structures, harmonic waves, levels and scales in acoustics, elementary sound sources, sound absorption, refraction of sound, sound superposition, diffraction, plane wave models. Sound perception: auditory systems, auditory experiments, noise perception and noise measurement. Room acoustics: wave acoustics, geometrical acoustics, statistical acoustics. Characterization of acoustic systems: linear and non-linear systems characterization, noise, directivity.
Total ECTS credit
3.0
Examination
Written
Language
Webpage
http://lema.epfl.ch/content/view/26/52/
Last modified
May 2, 2022, 10:15 p.m.

The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is a non-profit entity established in 1992 that includes in its membership societies predominantly in European countries interested in to promote development and progress of acoustics in its different aspects, its technologies and applications. EAA gathers 33 societies of acoustics and serves more than 9000 individual members all over Europe. The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is an Affiliate Member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) and of Initiative of Science in Europe (ISE).

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