Since 2019, I have chaired several one-week “summer schools” on acoustic waves and transducers, all over the world.
Acoustical imaging is based on two fundamental pillars: waves and transducers. The waves are essential to probe the interior of the human body, a metal structure or the earth whereas the transducers are essential to generate and receive the acoustic waves. Our topical school is built around those two pillars.
The lectures are at an advanced physics and engineering level. They will cover topics related to wave propagation (ranging from acoustic field equations to full-wave forminversion), and materials and transducers (ranging from piezoceramics and piezocrystals through to miniaturized high-frequency matrix transducers for integration with electronics).
By combining theory with simple hands-on practical work using computers, instrumentation and piezoelectric materials, the students will gain significant understanding about the foundations of medical ultrasound and other related applications.
Full website: IEEE-UFFC Special Topic School Waves and Transducers
2027 – Pretoria, South Africa ???
2025 – IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
2023 – Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, Europe
2022 – North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
2021 – Online, Sunnybrook Research Institute / University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2019 – Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China
