• DocumentCode
    71897
  • Title

    Good Vibrations: Schnitta Tackling Acoustical Engineering

  • Author

    Prives, Leslie

  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Dec. 2014
  • Firstpage
    35
  • Lastpage
    37
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    Acoustic devices; Acoustic measurements; Acoustical engineering; Bridges; Buildings; Civil engineering; Vibrations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Women in Engineering Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1942-065X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWIE.2014.2353294
  • Filename
    6899657