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technical articles and one book and holds nine U.S. patents on electro- mechanical sensors. Dr. Busch- Vishniac’s research focuses on noise control and transducers (sensors and actuators). Her noise control work includes the design of highway noise barriers to improve sound reduction and, more recently, the characteriza- tion and control of noise in hospitals. In the transducer arena, Dr. Busch- Vishniac has worked on the develop- ment of new materials to improve microphones and loudspeakers
Dr. Busch-Vishniac is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. She received the ASA R. Bruce Lindsay Award in 1987 “for outstanding contri- butions to developing an improved understanding of the dynamic response of electret transducers and noise propagation in urban environ- ments” and the Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics in 2001 She has received many other teaching and research awards, including the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers and the Curtis McGraw Research Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. She has served in various professional organizations including a term as President of the Acoustical Society of America, and a term on the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society of Engineering Education.
Kenneth Cunefare named full professor
Kenneth A. Cunefare, a member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in recognition of his contri- butions in the fields of structural acoustics and experimental facility test- ing methods. Prof. Cunefare has been at Georgia Tech since 1992, which he joined after spending a year at the Technical University of Berlin, Institute for Technical Acoustics, on the F. V.
Kenneth Cunefare
Hunt post-doctoral Fellowship." Professor Cunefare is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America in the area of Noise since 2002.
Abeer Alwan awarded Radcliffe Fellowship
Abeer Alwan was one of 50 people selected to be 2006-2007 Radcliffe fel- lows by The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. At Radcliffe, the fellows work individu- ally and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact. Professor Alwan is one of only two electrical engineers selected.
Abeer Alwan received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in
Portrait of Ilene Busch-Vishniac
Portrait of Ilene Busch-Vishniac unveiled at Johns Hopkins University
The portrait of Ilene Busch- Vishiniac, former Dean of the Whiting School of the Johns Hopkins University, was unveiled at a ceremony on 28 October 2006 in Taylor Auditorium. Painted by Baltimore artist Sam Robinson, the portrait is installed alongside those of her prede- cessors.
Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD where from 1998-2003 she served as the sixth dean of the Whiting School of Engineering.
Dr. Busch-Vishniac received her undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Rochester, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She worked at Bell Laboratories in the Acoustics Research Department before joining the mechanical engineering faculty of The University of Texas at Austin. She remained there until 1998, when she joined Johns Hopkins University as professor and dean.
She has authored approximately 60
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Credit: Photo by Tony Rinaldo