The Graduate Program in Acoustics at Penn State is a unique interdisciplinary program leading to master’s and doctoral degrees in acoustics. The program is focused entirely on acoustics, a subject touching many diverse disciplines such as architectural acoustics, biomedical ultrasound, noise and vibration control, transducer design, underwater acoustics, signal processing, aeroacoustics, structural vibration, speech and communication, outdoor propagation, computational methods, and much more.
The Distance Education Program was created in 1987 to give full-time working professionals the opportunity to earn a Master of Engineering in Acoustics or to enhance individual knowledge by taking selected courses while continuing to workk full-time. The Distance Education Program utilizes video streaming broadcasts of our graduate course lectures during the spring and fall semesters.
To collect accurate images of a patient’s brain, the patient must be still and confined in a tube-like MRI scanner for a long period of time. To better assess their brain function and behavioral health, however, they should move naturally and freely during a scan.