Challenges in Acoustic Microsystems

• Analyze a technical challenge and design solutions with limited resources.
• Set up a suitable model using LEM, BEM, or FEM to describe a complex acoustic-mechanical problem.
• Combine models to describe electrical, mechanical, and acoustic components.
• Consider challenges specific to acoustic microsystems and include them in models.
• Optimize model parameters to achieve target performance.
• Analyze simulation results to conclude and design different solutions.
• Efficiently work in a group to fulfill a short deadline.
• Present the technical process, decisions, and results in writing and orally.

In the course an industrial partner will pose a technical challenge for sound propagation and effects in acoustic microsystems. A crash-course and hands-on training provides a rapid introduction to the necessary modelling tools, such as COMSOL Multiphysics.
Students will work together in group projects to find solutions for the challenge. They will employ analytical and numerical methods to describe sound generation and propagation in order to find optimized design parameters. Proposed solutions will be evaluated in close cooperation with company engineers. Prototype designs may be realized using additive manufacturing.

34840/34870/34865, Prior attendance of one or more of these courses is recommended, but all necessary concepts and tools will be introduced and trained in the course.

Project work in a 3-weeks period, with introduction, guest lectures, and hands-on training.

The course content are linked to research activities at the Centre for Acoustic-Mechanical Microsystems (CAMM). The students will get into contact and work with engineers from an industrial CAMM partner.

Maximum: 20.

Please be aware that this course has a limited number of seats available. If there are too many applicants, a pool will be created for the remainder of the qualified applicants, and they will be selected at random. You will be informed 8 days before the start of the course, whether you have been allocated a spot.