Rooms of Sound

Anechoic Chamber
Anechoic Chamber
Large foam wedges provide insulation in the anechoic chamber, an acoustic testing facility in the mechanical engineering department at Michigan Tech.
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There's a reason a person's voice carries in a classroom and doesn't in a recording booth. The science of sound impacts many of the rooms we live, play, work and eat in; this kind of research is the bread and butter of acoustics engineers. Join Troy Bouman, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, on a tour of Michigan Tech's acoustics testing facilities.

Reverb Chamber
A reverberant chamber is the opposite of a sound-muffling anechoic chamber.

 

Michigan Technological University is a public research university founded in 1885 in Houghton, Michigan, and is home to more than 7,000 students from 55 countries around the world. Consistently ranked among the best universities in the country for return on investment, Michigan’s flagship technological university offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, computing, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and the arts. The rural campus is situated just miles from Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, offering year-round opportunities for outdoor adventure.