Akustiikan opetuksen historiaa Suomessa

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• Matti Karjalainen

Abstrakti

History of education and teaching of acoustics in Finland

The teaching of acoustics in Finland properly began in 1950, when Gubert R. von Salis, visiting professor from Switzerland, gave lectures about electroacoustics in the Helsinki university of technology for four years. The acoustics laboratory was founded in the 1950s. When the relocation of the university to Otaniemi, Espoo, became actual, a whole wing for acoustics with excellent measuring rooms was planned in connection with the electricity department. Professorship of acoustics was founded in 1974. In the 1980s, speech processing and signal processing were emphasized in teaching.
The beginning of the 90s was still relatively quiet in sound technology. The actual boom in the laboratory started around 1995, along with the expansion of Nokia. The rapidly growing mobile phone industry made the company also part of sound technology. The period of rapid growth in 1995–2003 in the acoustics laboratory gave possibilities for diversification of teaching. During recent years, around 10–15 students per year graduate from the laboratory, and 2–3 doctoral dissertations are produced.