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trol implementation for axial cooling fan noise.” which was published in Noise Control Engineering Journal, Volume 51, Number 6.
Kent Gee is Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University. He earned B.A. and M.S. degrees at Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. Scott Sommerfeldt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University. He earned a Ph.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University.
The 2005 Prize was awarded to Jonathan Rathsam of the University of Nebraska for his student project, “Validation and modeling of diffraction around three-dimensional surfaces using 3D boundary element method.”
Jonathan Rathsam is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
The 2004 and 2005 Prizes of $5000 USD were awarded at the NOISE-CON 2005 meeting in October 2005.
Ralph N. Ohde
Ralph Ohde named Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association
ASA member Ralph Ohde was named a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2006.
The status of Fellow is retained for life and is one of the highest honors ASHA can bestow. It recognizes pro- fessional or scientific achievement and is given to a member who has shown outstanding contribution to the pro- fessions—contributions that are signif- icant and would be so regarded within and beyond one’s community or state.
Ralph Ohde is Professor in the
Scott D. Sommerfeldt
Rahul Kadam
Speech and Hearing Department at the Vanderbilt University Bill Wilkerson Center. He is a Fellow of ASA and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America from 1990-93 and as Technical Program Chair for the ASA meeting held in Nashville in May 2003.
2006 Royster Awards
The North Carolina Regional Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America held the 2006 Royster Competition in April 2006 in Raleigh, NC. Twelve entries were submitted from contestants from Virginia Tech. The prize was awarded to Rahul Kadam, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering, for his proj- ect title “Computational Model for Vibro-Acoustic Simulation of a Pneumatic Chipping Hammer.”
The judges were: Noral Stewart, Stewart Acoustical Consultants; Reginald Cook, US Public Health Service (retired); George Bissinger, East Carolina University; Aaron Farbo, Stewart Acoustical Consultants; Tim Lavallee, LPES.
The Royster Award, which is fund- ed through a generous donation by Larry and Julia Royster, supports the ASA Regional Chapters poster compe- tition held once a year for a total of $5000 in scholarships. Full-time gradu- ate students enrolled in a program involving acoustics, or senior under- graduate students expecting to enroll in such a program, are eligible to submit entries. Posters may be on any Hearing Conservation or Noise Control topic including Education, Sound Surveys, Engineering and Administrative
Controls, Hearing Audiometric Evaluations.
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Kent Gee
Jonathan Rathsam (photo by Jingjuan Feng)
Martin Hirschorn IAC Prizes awarded by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering
The Martin Hirschorn Prize is awarded, in even-numbered years, for the best paper on new and/or improved cost effective noise control and/or acoustical conditioning products as published in the two years preceding the award.
The 2004 prize was awarded to Kent L. Gee and Scott D. Sommerfeldt for their paper, “A compact active con-