10.+Explore+Audio+Engineering+with+SLAM

 10. Explore Audio Engineering with SLAM (__S__ound __L__aboratory & __A__udio __M__ayhem)
**Jeff Lewis** Senior Systems Analyst ESC Space C2 and Surveillance Division Engineering Branch (HSIE) Jacobs Technology Inc., ETASS Team

Where do we use sound technology? You would be surprised. Besides music, sound can be used in the study and prediction of earthquakes; to find food in the oceans; to recover valuable resources in mining; to detect birth defects and diseases; to find stress fractures in buildings, bridges, and airplanes; and as a very effective non kinetic weapon by defense forces and police. Come learn about the nature of sound, uses for sound, and some common recording and sound editing software [|(Audacity] ) and hardware.

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