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Curriculum Development of Acoustics and Audio Engineering on Digital Convergence Environment (디지털 융복합 환경을 고려한 음향 및 오디오 기술 교육과정 개발)

  • Oh, Wongeun;Rhee, Esther
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.191-197
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we present the college curriculum for the acoustics and audio engineering on digital convergence environment. For these purposes, we categorized the colleges which linked on the ASA and AES websites into three types according to their characteristics such as an acoustics-oriented type, an applied-acoustics type, and a convergence-oriented type. And a basic step-by-step curriculum model for the audio acoustics is suggested based on the characteristics of the category analysis. The proposed model can be effectively used to build an acoustics and audio technology course at the domestic colleges.

American Acoustician Alfred M. Mayer's Acoustical Research (미국 음향학자 앨프레드 메이어의 음향학 연구)

  • Ku, Ja-Hyon
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.44-50
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    • 2009
  • While American acoustics had been lagged behind European one in the nineteenth century, Alfred Mayer greatly contributed to enhance American experimental acoustics. He inherited experimental skills in collaboration with Koenig in Paris, and got chances to obtain research ability from leading researchers such as Rayleigh during his visit to England. His accomplishments, which brought him fame in Europe, included the creation of the acoustic pyrometer which measured the high temperature by means of the thermal change of the sound velocity, the discovery of mosquito's hearing by selective resonance, the formalization of the duration of the residual sensation of sound, the invention of the topophone which searched for the direction of the sound source, the construction of the apparatus for visualizing the frequency of sound and so on. He not only added new research results to Europe's acoustics but applied acoustics to physical education to help produce the next generation of American acousticians.

Clustering Strategy Based on Graph Method and Power Control for Frequency Resource Management in Femtocell and Macrocell Overlaid System

  • Li, Hongjia;Xu, Xiaodong;Hu, Dan;Tao, Xiaofeng;Zhang, Ping;Ci, Song;Tang, Hui
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.664-677
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    • 2011
  • In order to control interference and improve spectrum efficiency in the femtocell and macrocell overlaid system (FMOS), we propose a joint frequency bandwidth dynamic division, clustering and power control algorithm (JFCPA) for orthogonal-frequency-division-multiple access-based downlink FMOS. The overall system bandwidth is divided into three bands, and the macro-cellular coverage is divided into two areas according to the intensity of the interference from the macro base station to the femtocells, which are dynamically determined by using the JFCPA. A cluster is taken as the unit for frequency reuse among femtocells. We map the problem of clustering to the MAX k-CUT problem with the aim of eliminating the inter-femtocell collision interference, which is solved by a graph-based heuristic algorithm. Frequency bandwidth sharing or splitting between the femtocell tier and the macrocell tier is determined by a step-migration-algorithm-based power control. Simulations conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm showed the frequency-reuse probability of the FMOS reuse band above 97.6% and at least 70% of the frequency bandwidth available for the macrocell tier, which means that the co-tier and the cross-tier interference were effectively controlled. Thus, high spectrum efficiency was achieved. The simulation results also clarified that the planning of frequency resource allocation in FMOS should take into account both the spatial density of femtocells and the interference suffered by them. Statistical results from our simulations also provide guidelines for actual FMOS planning.

Piezo-driven inkjet printhead monitoring system (압전 잉크젯 헤드 모니터링 시스템)

  • Lee, Byeung-Leul;Kim, Sang-Il
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.124-129
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    • 2010
  • For the industrial printing applications, the stability of the piezo-driven inkjet printhead is a major requirement. In this paper, we focused on the failure modes of the inkjet printhead and realized a method to detect and repair them at high speed. The printhead monitoring is performed by detecting the residual vibration of the actuating plate using the self- sensing capability of the piezoelectric material. To measure the channel acoustics and to identify the malfunctioning nozzle, we devised the bridge sensing circuitry and failure detection algorithm. The residual vibration signals can be affected by the boundary conditions of the channel acoustics, so it is possible to identify the failure causes by analyzing the monitoring signals. Therefore it is also possible to apply a proper restoring process to the defective printhead. The experimental results show that this method is effective in improving the reliability of the industrial printing.

Audio Engineering Curriculums for the Higher Education : Case Studies on the USA's and the European Graduate Schools (고등 음향기술 교육체제 구축을 위한 미국과 유럽 대학원의 교과과정 사례 연구)

  • Oh, Wongeun;Rhee, Esther
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 2014
  • Currently, a lot of colleges and universities offer Acoustics and audio engineering courses. In this paper, we analyze and classify the current state of the graduate level curriculums of the area. For the purposes, we focus on graduate school courses of the U.S. and Europe where audio engineering is highly advanced. They were classified into three different types depending on the educational objectives. In addition, the representative cases of each type are presented to examine the characteristics of the subjects.

The meaning of 'Educational Philosophy': by the usage of ('교육철학' 용어의 의미 분석: <물결21 코퍼스>를 중심으로)

  • Chang, Chi Won
    • Philosophy of Education
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    • no.66
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    • pp.77-103
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    • 2018
  • This study focused on the meaning of 'educational philosophy' by the method of corpus analysis. There is the difference of meaning on educational philosophy between professional researchers and publics. This semantic phenomenon implies that the image acoustics of 'educational philosophy' are not matched between two groups. This study, which originated from Saussure's linguistics theory, examined the semantics of educational philosophy in the . Unlike philosophical inquiry on education, the definition of educational philosophy, the general public use 'educational philosophy' like the connotation of secret of successful learning and child nurturing. Given the power of the media and the mass, these tendency could affect the meaning and definition of educational philosophy. Professional researchers should investigate these acoustic image from the sense of linguistic and educational approaches. These researches could contribute to clarify descriptive and normative meaning of the educational philosophy.

Architectural Acoustics Design of multipurpose Auditorium in S-high school (S고등학교(高等學校) 다목적(多目的) 강당(講堂)의 건축음향설계(建築音響設計))

  • Ju, Duck-Hoon;Yun, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Jae-Soo
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.436-440
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    • 2008
  • Among those various facilities attached to the school building, the Auditorium is being utilized for not only the Exercise Activity but also for many purposes such as Culture, Public Performance, Education, Assembly and so on. In order to utilize in maximum such function of the multipurpose auditorium, an adequate acoustic design with regard to the Clarity of Voice and Music in accordance with its use-purpose should be accompanied. However, as the most part of multipurpose auditoriums is designed with high ceiling-height by its peculiar character, and due to use of the material of strong reflexibility, it is appearing the defect that excessively exposes the reverberation of sound. In order to make out an optimal acoustic condition within the broad space such as an auditorium, the acoustic characteristics must be considered from the planning stage, however in the most case, those acoustic problems are being settled through the repair works after construction. On such viewpoint, this Study intends to analyze the room acoustic characteristics from the planning stage using a computer simulation based on the blueprint of multipurpose auditorium in S High School located in Gwangju. It is considered that the material analyzed in such way could be practically applied as a fundamental material enables to improve the acoustic capability when a similar broad space is planned hereafter.

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Inquiring Activities on the Acoustic Phenomena Using Sound Card in Personal Computer (사운드카드를 이용한 음향학 탐구학습 사례)

  • Lee, Seung-Koog;Lee, Jong-Rim;Kim, Hyun-Byuk;Kim, Young-H.
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.249-254
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    • 2011
  • Inquiring activities on the acoustic phenomena have been carried out by using a sound card installed in a personal computer. A sound card is cheaper and more accessible to the students than the precision equipment such as a function generator or an oscilloscope. The students record the sounds from various acoustic phenomena to the sound card. Then they analyze the frequency spectrums of that sounds by using a program. Inquired phenomena include beat by two tuning forks, sound from Rijke tube, pouring sound, breaking of a wine glass and pop-up sound of a wine bottle. Through these activities students perform quantitative analysis of various phenomena due to superposition, resonance and standing wave.

A study on the predictability of acoustic power distribution of English speech for English academic achievement in a Science Academy (과학영재학교 재학생 영어발화 주파수 대역별 음향 에너지 분포의 영어 성취도 예측성 연구)

  • Park, Soon;Ahn, Hyunkee
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2022
  • The average acoustic distribution of American English speakers was statistically compared with the English-speaking patterns of gifted students in a Science Academy in Korea. By analyzing speech recordings, the duration time of which is much longer than in previous studies, this research identified the degree of acoustic proximity between the two parties and the predictability of English academic achievement of gifted high school students. Long-term spectral acoustic power distribution vectors were obtained for 2,048 center frequencies in the range of 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz by applying an long-term average speech spectrum (LTASS) MATLAB code. Three more variables were statistically compared to discover additional indices that can predict future English academic achievement: the receptive vocabulary size test, the cumulative vocabulary scores of English formative assessment, and the English Speaking Proficiency Test scores. Linear regression and correlational analyses between the four variables showed that the receptive vocabulary size test and the low-frequency vocabulary formative assessments which require both lexical and domain-specific science background knowledge are relatively more significant variables than a basic suprasegmental level English fluency in the predictability of gifted students' academic achievement.