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Jeff Otto, a graduate student conducts an experiment with a standing-wave tube in the Acoustics Laboratory. |
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area covers a long list of topics that ranges from communications, to
automatic controls, to electro-acoustics. Students interested in
"systems engineering" learn to characterize systems mathematically by
analyzing their input and output signals. Those students with a
particular specialty in "communications" study the theories of
modulation and demodulation of, for example, radio and television
signals, cell phone signals, etc. Those specializing in "automatic
controls" learn to design and analyze systems that behave automatically
to external stimuli. Such systems may include, for example, the
electronic automobile ignition, military drone aircraft, autonomous
submarines, etc. Those students specializing in "electro-acoustics"
study sound transmission and the devices that convert electrical
signals to sound waves (and vice-versa). These may include, for
example, loudspeakers, microphones, hydrophones, the human ear, etc.
Systems engineers are in high demand and are employed in nearly every
industry that develops and/or produces a product.
Interviews with the professionals
Cyril Ige - Engineer
Jeff Otto - Graduate Student
