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Elaine Moran
Acoustical Society of America Melville, NY 11747
(l to r) Goldie Ungar, Eric Ungar, Bill Cavanaugh (Photo by David H. Kaye)
Eric Ungar named Honorary Lifetime Member of ASA's Greater Boston Chapter
Eric E. Ungar was honored by the Greater Boston Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America at its 3 February 2005 meeting for his lifetime of achievements and contributions to acoustics and to the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). He was presented with a plaque signifying his Honorary Lifetime membership in the Greater Boston Chapter. The award was presented to Eric Ungar by Bill Cavanaugh to the delight of Eric's wife, Goldie, who Eric credited in his remarks as the inspiration for all of his past achievements in acoustics as in all other aspects of his life.
Eric Ungar is a Fellow of the ASA. He has served the Society as Associate Editor of the Journal, 1974-75; Chair of the Technical Committee on Structural Acoustics and Vibration, 1975-79; Member of the Executive Council 1983- 86; Vice President Elect, 1987-88; Vice President, 1988-89; President-Elect, 1990-91; and President, 1991-92. Dr. Ungar was awarded the Trent-Crede Medal by the ASA in 1983 "for his important contributions to our understanding of vibra- tions in complex structures, the effects of structural damping, and the propagation of structure-borne sound." He received the Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics from ASME International in 1994 which is given in recogni- tion of eminent achievement and extraordinary merit in the field of noise control and acoustics.
Gary Koopmann receives Humboldt Award
Gary Koopmann, distinguished professor of mechani- cal engineering and Director of the Center for Acoustics and Vibration, Pennsylvania State University, has received the Humboldt Award for Senior U.S. Scientists
from the Alexander von Humboldt Found- ation in Bonn, Germany, in honor of his achievements in the disciplines of vibra- tions, acoustics and noise control.
Award winners are
invited to carry out
research projects of
their own choice at
German research insti-
tutes. Koopmann will
pursue his research
project at the DLR,
Germany's Aerospace
Research Center and
Space Agency, in collaboration with his colleague of 25 years, Wolfgang Neise, Director of the DLR's Institute for Turbulence Research. They will apply the emerging technol- ogy of smart materials to turbomachinery designs that could lead to a new and improved quieter generation of fans, com- pressors and jet engines. During his six-month stay, Koopmann and his graduate student, Lee Gorny, will con- duct experiments on DLR's world class, turbomachinery facility to demonstrate the application of smart materials- based, noise control technology.
Koopmann has lectured extensively in Europe and Asia. In the spring of 2000, he was chosen as the inaugural recipi- ent of Tokyo Institute of Technology's Chair of International Cooperation. In 1999, he was invited to give the prestigious Rayleigh Lecture at the International American Society of Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition and in 2000 was selected as the E.J. Richards Lecturer at the University of Southampton, U.K. As a Professional Engineer (PE) since 1980, Koopmann is active on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sound and Vibration (1996-present), Journal of Applied Acoustics (1991-1997) and the Applied Mechanics Review (1994-2000). He holds the rank of fellow in the Acoustical Society of America and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Koopmann earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska in 1962 and his master's degree (1966) and doctoral degree (1969) from the Catholic University of America. Before joining Penn State, Koopmann served for seven years as a research scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, a post doc and lecturer for 8 years at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (University of Southampton, United Kingdom), and was director of the University of Houston's Laboratory for Sound
Gary H. Koopmann (Photo by Barbara Bogue)
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