After successful completion of the course, students are able to
Definition, physical principles and mathematical description, noise measurement engineering, sound analysis, noise generation (with focus on road and rail traffic), basics of sound propagation and effects of noise, noise protection, essential policies, European prediction model, psychoacoustics
Online lecture and/or Powerpoint presentation with audio commentary with practice and calculation examples, expert interviews, practical exercise
The lecture will be held in blocked form. The specific dates will be announced, with the first unit expected to be available in the 2nd half of May 2021.The main examination date is expected to be at the end of June 2021.
The performance test is based on a written examination (duration 60 min).
A quarter of the total number of points can be obtained (for written examinations until May 2022) through a voluntary, practical exercise prior to the written examination. During this exercise, various sound situations, including some caused by traffic, has to be recorded using a mobile phone or tablet (for example on the drive to TU-Wien) and then analysed by applying the lecture content using script-based tools such as MATLAB or Python. The essential results of this analysis have to be summarised in a short report (approx. 3 - 5 pages) and submitted, including the developed scripts, up to 1 week before the examination.
Not necessary
For the lecture no previous experience is required. For the voluntary exercise experience with the dealing with script-based analysing tools like MATLAB or python is advantageous. Thus, the completion of the course Introduction to Programming I for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Environmental Engineering (122.424) is recommended.
