IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine - December 2014 - 35

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LEsLIE PrIvEs

Good
Vibrations
Schnitta tackling
acouStical engineering

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When Bonnie Schnitta saw a video of the Tacoma Bridge
in Washington state collapse due to vibrations caused by
wind conditions, she knew she had "heard" her calling.
"I remember sitting there watching this and thinking,
'I have no idea what field it is where you would learn
why that happened, but one day that's what I'm going
to do,'" she recalls. The field turned out to be acoustical
engineering and, as founder and chief executive officer
of SoundSense, Schnitta now tackles issues and applications of acoustics every day.
Acoustical engineering can be described as using
an aspect of acoustics, whether that is a distinct signal,
such as speech or music, or something more abstract
(noise) in a specific application. Acoustics are employed
not only in aiding hearing or preventing hearing loss but
also within underwater acoustics, ultrasound imaging,

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MWIE.2014.2353294
Date of publication: 7 November 2014

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