Technical Committee Report: Committee on Engineering Acoustics

The TCEA includes scientists and engineers with a very wide range of interests and expertise. Indeed, the area of engineering acoustics is highly cross-disciplinary, encompassing the theory and practice of creating tools to generate and investigate acoustical phenomena and then to apply the knowledge of acoustics to practical utility. This includes the modeling, design, and fabrication of acoustical and vibrational transducers, arrays, and transduction systems in all media and frequency ranges. Engineering acoustics is further concerned with the design of acoustical instrumentation, metrology, and calibration of acoustical systems as well as the associated aspects of fabrication and computational techniques as they relate to the generation and sensing of acoustical phenomena.