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This course addresses theoretical principles and the applied techniques of acoustical and audio measurements. This course is part content learning, but mostly applied learning and investigation. Acoustical and audio measurements are performed for many reasons, including, the identification and severity of problems, to confirm the performance of a transducer, device or space, to document results compared to predictive models, to achieve a required standard or for verifiable comparison. The dialogue (and potential deviation) between quantifiable measures and human impressions is acknowledged. Topics may include measurement microphones, sound level meters, noise sources, FFT analysis, frequency analysis, reverberation, speech intelligibility, transfer functions, swept sine techniques, harmonic distortion and mixed signal testing.