Sound Matters

声音弥漫在我们的日常生活中，是我们主要的交流手段之一。它的无处不在激发了各种各样的研究，从环境噪音污染及其带来的烦恼和压力，到更积极的方面，如可以提高生活质量的建筑设计，以及有助于改善健康的超声波医学诊断。因此，声音是将人们与工程联系起来的理想主题，因为它可以与他们的日常体验联系在一起。在关键阶段1-4的国家课程和AS/A级的科学课程中都有健全的特色，因此这使我们能够接触到在校学生。事实上，这个奖项主要集中在10-19岁的青少年。强调这一年龄段是因为：(I)这个年龄段是脱离科学和工程的关键年龄段；(Ii)在16岁以后的教育中，应对科学和数学的下降非常重要，因为如果学生想要进入工程学职业，就必须学习这些学科。声音，尤其是噪音，对政策制定者来说是一个重要问题，媒体上经常出现一些特写，例如，坏邻居经常被引用为吵闹的邻居，因为噪音会带来有形的抱怨；这再次为提高意识工作提供了可能性。社会或暗示或明确地在活动产生的噪音烦扰和个人进行这些活动的自由之间进行权衡。因此，在许多声学领域进行有意义的研究需要在研究人员和公众之间建立对话。声学工程涉及声音的产生、传输、操纵和接收，从不想要的工业噪音到美丽的音乐。声学既体现了声波的物理特性，又体现了人类的心理和生理反应。鉴于感知对于声学的重要性，通过让公众参与实验过程是可能的，例如，在大规模的网络实验中。声学自然跨越了传统的学科界限，这为公共传播工作打开了机会。例如，该舞台将把声学工程与音乐和艺术联系起来，通过吸引学生在工程学之外的兴趣来吸引他们。这种跨越传统学科界限的联系也被用来展示工程学可以是有趣和有创意的。建议的活动是：1.一个基于用植物制作乐器的工艺项目2。学生与艺术家合作创作利用声学工程的作品的项目。4.一个题为《极端声音》的节目将考察极端频率范围(超声波和次声)、极端音量水平(非常安静和非常响亮)和极端环境(深海水下声学或行星声学)。为14-19岁的青少年和他们的父母举办对话活动，让研究人员了解他们对音景的态度。聘请记者提高声学意识。关于音景的网络实验(可能还包括性感的声音)。

Sound pervades much of our daily lives and is one of our primary means of communication. Its ubiquity motivates a wide variety of research / from environmental noise pollution and its resulting annoyance and stress, to more positive aspects such as the design of buildings, which can improve quality of life, and medical diagnosis by ultrasound, which can help improve health. So, sound is an ideal theme for connecting people to engineering, because it can be connected to their every day experiences. Sound features in the national curriculum at key stages 1-4 and on science curricula at AS/A level, and so this allows us to reach out to school pupils. Indeed, this award is mostly focussed on 10-19 year olds. This age group is emphasised because: (i) it contains vital ages where disengagement from science and engineering occurs, and (ii) it is important to counter the dropping of science and maths for post 16-education, as these subjects must be studied if pupils are to progress to engineering careers.Sound, and especially noise, is an important issue for policy makers and features often in the media, for example bad neighbours are often cited as noisy neighbours because the noise gives something tangible to complain about; this again giving possibilities for awareness work. Society implicitly or explicitly makes trade offs between the noise annoyance generated by activities and an individual's freedom to undertake these activities. Consequently, meaningful research in many areas of acoustics requires a dialogue to be established between researchers and the general public.Acoustic engineering is concerned with the production, transmission, manipulation and reception of sound, from unwanted industrial noise to beautiful music. Acoustics embodies both the physical properties of sound waves, and the psychological and physiological reaction of humans. Given the importance of perception to acoustics, it is possible to engage the public by getting them to participate in the experimental process, for instance in mass web-experiments. Acoustics naturally cuts across traditional discipline boundaries, which opens up opportunity for public communication work. For example, the stage will link acoustic engineering to music and the arts, giving a way of engaging pupils by drawing on their interests outside engineering. This link across traditional discipline boundaries is also exploited to show that engineering can be fun and creative.The activities proposed are:1. A craft project based on making musical instruments out of vegetables2. A project where pupils work with artists to create works exploiting acoustic engineering.3. A show entitled Sound at the Extremes which will examine extreme frequency ranges (ultrasound and infrasound), extreme volume levels (very quiet and very loud), and extreme environments (deep underwater or planetary acoustics).4. A dialogue activity for 14-19 years old and their parents to enable researchers to understand their attitudes to soundscapes.5. Employing a journalist to raise the awareness of acoustics.6. Web experiments on soundscapes (and maybe also on sexy voices).