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

ECE 699 - Acoustic Transduction and Electroacoustic Transducers

3 credits
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: ECE 557, 597 An advanced course covering fundamental principles, design, and operation of transducers for the reception and generation of underwater sound using energy analysis methods. Topics include: theory of simple radiators and receivers, electromechanical circuit analogies, impedance functions and equivalent circuits; piezoelectricity; reciprocity; acoustic properties of transducer materials; acoustic motion sensors; pressure gradient sensor designs, and diffractions constants.