Kategorie: ‘Teaching’
ACOUCOU: Development of web-based teaching materials for acoustics
More than one year ago, the polish company KFB Acoustics initiated a Strategic Partnership involving four European universities (KU Leuven, University of Le Mans, University of Zagreb and RWTH Aachen University) and two companies (HEAD Acoustics and KFB Acoustics), funded by the Erasmus+ program of the EU, with the goal to develop ideas and concepts for the implementation and extension of an online teaching portal including various courses on acoustics. This portal, called ACOUCOU, short for Acoustic Courseware, is available on www.acoucou.org and currently contains one course about Vibroacoustics and example materials from the previous project Acoustics for Industry (ACI).
At the end of October, two ITA employees participated in the final meeting in Wroclaw, Poland, where the outcomes of the project and future events related to the ACOUCOU platform were discussed. The most recent event, an interactive session on educational materials in acoustics, which took place at the ICA conference in Aachen, was rated as a great success by all participants and led to new contacts and helped to disseminate the teaching portal.
The project consortium is also happy to announce that additional funding was granted by the EU to fill the teaching portal with more course contents in a three-year project starting in 2020. This project is named Acoustics Knowledge Alliance (ASKNOW) and is part of the Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance program.
Final meeting in Wrocław, Poland
(Photo: Karolina Jaruszewska)
Final meeting in Wrocław, Poland (Photo: ITA) 
Overview of project partners 
Example of web-based teaching material from the course Acoustics for Engineers (ACE)
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Das ITA bei den „Highlights der Physik“ in Dortmund
Nach einer mehrjährigen Pause war das Institut für Technische Akustik im Jahr 2018 wieder bei den „Highlights der Physik“ vertreten. Mit dieser Veranstaltungsreihe möchte das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) die Öffentlichkeit, insbesondere Schülerinnen und Schüler, mehr für die zahlreichen Themenbereich der Physik begeistern. Gastgeber und Mitorganisatoren der Veranstaltung in diesem Jahr waren die Stadt Dortmund sowie die Technische Universität Dortmund, die sich in den Projekttagen vom 17.9.2018 bis zum 22.09.2018 über rund 48.000 Besucher an den vielen Ständen und Vorträgen freuten.
Das ITA war mit einem Stand zum Thema „Mit zwei Ohren hört man besser“ durch den Mitarbeiter Philipp Schäfer sowie durch die studentischen Mitarbeiter Philipp Eschbach und Pascal Palenda vertreten, welche interessierten Besucher die Grundlagen und aktuelle Forschungsfragen im Bereich des binauralen Hören und der Raumakustiksimulation anschaulich demonstrieren.
Die offizielle Pressemitteilung des Veranstalters finden Sie hier. Vielen Dank an Dr. Axel Carl für die hervorragende Organisation und an die Fotografen von Offer & Offer für die Bereitstellung ihrer Fotos.
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- Wie funktioniert binaurales Hören? (© Offer & Offer 2018)
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- Demonstration der interaktiven Raumakustiksimulation (© Offer & Offer 2018)
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- Erklärung der interaktiven Raumakustiksimulation (© Offer & Offer 2018)
Kinderuni zum Thema Schall
Am 28.10.2016 hat Prof. Dr.-Ing. Janina Fels die Kinderuni-Vorlesung der RWTH Aachen University zum Thema: „Zisch, Brumm, Knall – Schall ist überall“ gehalten.
Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/byzy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMj7qH10eg
Bilder von Martin Lux
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edX meets TU9 – Join the communication acoustics course!
The institute of technical acoustics joins in an massive open online course (MOOC). This course will start on december the fifth and will give an introduction into the fundamentals of acoustics and various applications. The course is provided on edX and is therefore open to everyone. The lecturer are acoustics experts from leading universities all over germany, the so called TU9 universities.
Information about the course and a short video teaser can be found here.
ITApp online
The ITApp web applications for interactive acoustics created by ITA and funded by the RWTH Blended Learning initiative has been launched with a preview on wave visualization and audio examples for audio manipulation in the frequency spectrum as well as an interactive audiometry.
