The Graduate Program in Acoustics at The Pennsylvania State University

Abstract

In 2015, the Graduate Program in Acoustics at Penn State will be celebrating 50 years as the only program in the United States offering the Ph.D. in Acoustics as well as M.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Acoustics. An interdisciplinary program with faculty from a variety of academic disciplines, the Acoustics Program is administratively aligned with the College of Engineering and closely affiliated with the Applied Research Laboratory. The research areas include: ocean acoustics, structural acoustics, signal processing, aeroacoustics, thermoacoustics, architectural acoustics, transducers, computational acoustics, nonlinear acoustics, marine bioacoustics, noise and vibration control, and psychoacoustics. The course offerings include fundamentals of acoustics and vibration, electroacoustic transducers, signal processing, acoustics in fluid media, sound-structure interaction, digital signal processing, experimental techniques, acoustic measurements and data analysis, ocean acoustics, architectural acoustics, noise control engineering, nonlinear acoustics, ultrasonic NDE, outdoor sound propagation, computational acoustics, flow induced noise, spatial sound and 3D audio, marine bioacoustics, and the acoustics of musical instruments. Penn State Acoustics graduates serve widely throughout military and government labs, academic institutions, consulting firms, and industry. This poster will summarize faculty, research areas, facilities, student demographics, successful graduates, and recent enrollment and employment trends.