Graduate acoustics at Brigham Young University

Graduate studies in acoustics at Brigham Young University prepare students for industry, research, and academia by complementing in-depth coursework with publishable research. Graduate‐level coursework provides students with a solid foundation in core acoustics principles and practices and measurement skills, including a strong foundation in experimental techniques and writing technical memoranda. Labs across the curriculum cover calibration, directivity, scattering, absorption, laser Doppler vibrometry, lumped-element mechanical systems, equivalent circuit modeling, arrays, filters, room acoustics, active noise control, and near-field acoustical holography. Recent thesis and dissertation topics include active noise control, directivity of acoustic sources, room acoustics, radiation and directivity of musical instruments, energy-based acoustics, time reversal, nondestructive evaluation, flow-based acoustics, voice production, aeroacoustics, sound propagation modeling, nonlinear propagation, high-amplitude noise analyses, machine and deep learning applied to ambient noise level prediction, crowd noise interpretation, underwater acoustic source localization, and ocean environment classification. The graduate students are expected to present research at professional meetings and publish in peer-reviewed acoustics journals. Graduate students often serve as peer mentors to undergraduate students on related projects and may participate in field experiments to gain additional experience. For update, follow us @BYUAcoustics