What are interesting vibration topics we currently are not teaching?

[moorepants]

• Waves
• Continuous media vibrations (non-lumped)
• Sound
• Active control of vibration
• Vehicle suspension design
• Vibration testing
• Human vibration tolerance
• ISO standards
• FFT of real data and interpreting
• Relationship between control and vibration: controlled linear system is just vibration

[ixjlyons]

One thing I've been thinking quite a bit about is whether or not it's feasible to introduce distributed parameter systems at the undergrad level. Depending on some of the classes students have taken, some of them are probably familiar with PDEs, boundary conditions, etc. In the experimental methods class (at least when I took it and TA'd for it) they go over the mode shapes of a cantileavered beam and do experimental measurement of it with accelerometers. Strings, beams, plates, etc. are a large class of systems that are pretty much ignored. I'm guessing it hasn't been covered historically just because of the quarter system and there being enough material already. The computation-heavy focus could lead to some interesting ways of avoiding at least some of the nastier analytics.

[moorepants]

Yeh, maybe it could be shown the way we've been doing it so far. I think that previous eng 122 instructors may have talked about it in one lecture as a special topic if time permitted, but you really need much more time.