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Susan Blaeser has served as Standards Manager at the Acoustical Society of America since 2001. In this capacity she is the Secretary to four ANSI- Accredited Standards Committees: ASC S1 Acoustics; ASC S2 Mechanical Vibration and Shock; ASC S3 Bioacoustics; and S12 Noise. She is also Secretary to two ISO committees: ISO/TC 108 Mechanical vibration and
shock; and ISO/TC 108/SC 5 Condition monitoring and diag- nostics of machines. Finally, she administers eight ANSI- Accredited U.S. TAGs to ISO/TC 108 and all five of its sub- committees, ISO/TC 43 Acoustics and ISO/TC 43/SC 1 Noise, and one U.S. TAG for IEC/TC 29 Electroacoustics. As Standards Manager she is actively involved in the work of the committees, supports some 100 working groups, edits the stan- dards produced by these committees, manages the office staff, and oversees the publication and sales program for American National Standards developed by these committees.
Prior to working for ASA, she spent many years in non- profit management positions including serving as Managing Director for a regional charity and as Village Clerk-Treasurer for a New York State municipality. She is a graduate of Stony Brook University.
Paul Schomer received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (1965), an MS in Electrical Engineering-Acoustics from the University of California- Berkeley (1966), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Acoustics from the University of Illinois (1971). He has always special- ized in architectural acoustics and environmental noise
including sound measurement and monitoring, sound prop- agation, and human and community response to sound. For many of his 30 years with the Army Corps of Engineers he led their research program in environmental noise that focused on small arms, large-weapon (tanks, artillery, and demolition), and helicopter noise. He has two patents, more than 35 publications in JASA and elsewhere, several chapters in reference books, and is an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois. For the past five years he has been a private consultant in acoustics. He has been active in the ASA’s Standards Program for about 30 years and currently he is the Standards Director of the Society.
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