Several investigators in the Ocean Acoustics Department at APL-UW hold joint appointments with Oceanography (OCEAN), Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), or Earth and Space Sciences (ESS). Graduate students can, therefore, work under the tutelage of OA investigators through their respective departments. Prospective students are urged to contact members of the OA group directly, or the APL-UW student liaison, prior to submitting an application to the home department. OA and affiliated reseachers with joint appointments: Kevin Williams (OCEAN) Peter Dahl (ME) Warren Fox (EE) Bruce Howe (EE & OCEAN) Jim Mercer (ESS) Bob Odom (ESS) Eric Thorsos (EE) Acoustics Course Offerings Applied Acoustics (Mechanical Engineering 525) Instructors: Professors Peter Dahl and Per Reinhall Our philosophy is to introduce acoustics through its various applications and sub-fields, such as underwater sound (including sonar), medical ultrasound, and noise control and vibrations. The student obtains a valuable perspective of what can be applied to his or her own particular field of interest. Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or allied field, or permission from instructor. Dr. Dahl has also offered a Discovery Seminar for UW freshman students preceding the fall quarter. In this General and Interdisciplinary Studies course (GIS 167) students consider the physics of sounds experienced every day such as music, the voice, the environmental sounds surrounding us, and less familiar sounds like medical ultrasound and underwater sound (sonar). Students build their own hydrophone to listen to underwater sounds like marine mammals and noise from boats and ships, and they learn about sound waves, frequency, decibels, sound speed, and how sound travels through air, water, and our bodies. Interested? Contact Peter Dahl. In addition to the core courses of a student's home department (Oceanography, EE, ESS, etc.) possible relevant ocean acoustics courses that a student might take are: School of Oceanography OCEAN 510 Physics of Ocean Circulation OCEAN 512 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics OCEAN 514 Waves OCEAN 535 Biological Oceanography for Physical Scientists OCEAN 540 Marine Geological Processes OCEAN 541 Marine Sedimentary Processes OCEAN 542 Sediment Dynamics and Boundary-Layer Physics OCEAN 560 Atmosphere/Ocean Interactions OCEAN 569 Acoustical Oceanography College of Engineering EE 466 Design in Electromagnetics, Optics, and Acoustics EE 501 Radar Remote Sensing EE 505 Probability and Random Processes EE 508 Stochastic Processes EE 518 Digital Signal Processing EE 519 Stochastic Analysis of Data From Physical Systems EE 520 Spectral Analysis of Time Series EE 524 Waves in Random Media II ME 525,526 Acoustics in Engineering I,II EE 570 Antenna Engineering EE 573 Electromagnetic Computations and Applications I EE 572 Electromagnetic Theory and Applications I EE 575 Waves in Random Media EE 578 Microwave Detection and Imaging Techniques EE 579 Advanced Topics in Electromagnetics, Optics, and Acoustics College of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) GPHYS 401/501 Geophysical Continuum Mechanics GPHYS 402/502 Seismology GPHYS 541/542 Theoretical Seismology I,II GPHYS 551 / OCEAN 551 Marine Seismology GPHYS 563 Geophysical Data Collection and Analysis GPHYS 564 Geophysical Inverse Theory The University of Washington's entire course catalog can be found here.