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2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 499 - Introduction to Electroacoustic Transducers

3 credits
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Upper level undergraduate standing in engineering or physics
Design, modeling, properties, and application of electromechanical piezoelectric transducers and arrays used for underwater acoustic sound, navigation, and ranging. The course focus is on piezoelectric ceramic devices and the use of lumped parameter equivalent electrical circuit analysis. This introductory course will require lectures, laboratory exercises, calibration experiments and class project. Cross-listed as ECE 558.