Design and practice of an acoustic education program to increase vocational awareness

Author

Nakayama, Masashi ; Harazono, Masahiro ; Mukai, Shinobu ; Ishimitsu, Shunsuke

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Coll. of Technol., Takamatsu, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Abstract

The number of elementary and junior high school students interested in natural science has recently decreased in addition to a lower birthrate. There has been a sequent fall in the number of applicants to our college. To address this problem, an acoustic education program incorporating lectures and experiments is designed and conducted for junior high school students as a first step to increasing the student´s vocational awareness. The effectiveness of the program, specifically an increase in the student´s vocational awareness relating to acoustics, was confirmed by the results of evaluations and questionnaires after the program was accomplished.

Keywords

education; speech; acoustic education program; birthrate; natural science; speech; vocational awareness; Acoustics; Computers; Educational institutions; Speech; Speech recognition; Vibrations; acoustics; children; education; lack of interest in sciences; speech; string vibration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2417-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2012.6360391

Filename

6360391