This year the annual AIP excursion took us to Wien.
Twenty-one students from our courses and/or student projects visited the Austrian Academy of Science (ARI) on Thursday 9th of June and the headphone and microphone manufacturer AKG on Friday 10th of June.
At ARI, we were first introduced to the variety of research they do (in, e.g. psychophysics, noise reduction and neural prostheses), after which we got hands-on experience with virtual acoustics.
At AKG, we had the privilege to receive an introduction how a high-end product is iteratively designed and modified before reaching the consumer market. Moreover, we could see the development labs and production facilities where prototypes are built and tested.