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International News
Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
Disc players. In 1984 he joined the acoustics group and worked on the development of CAD tools and signal processing for loudspeaker systems. In 1994 he became a member of the digi- tal signal processing (DSP) group and has led research projects on the improvement of sound reproduction by exploiting DSP and psychoacousti- cal phenomena. In 2003 he became a research fellow and extended his inter- ests in engineering to medicine and biology.
Dr. Aarts has published a large num- ber of papers and reports and holds over one hundred granted and pending U.S. patents in these fields. He has served on a number of organizing committees and as chair for various international conven- tions. He is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow and past-governor of the Audio Engineering Society, and a member of the NAG (Dutch Acoustical Society), the Acoustical Society of America, and the VvBBMT (Dutch Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering). He is a part-time full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Murray Hodgson receives Canadian Acoustical Association award
Murray Hodgson, Professor in the School of Occupational and Environ- mental Hygiene and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
British Columbia, was awarded “The Directors’ Award” by the Canadian Acoustical Association in 2006. Two Directors Awards are presented annually to the authors of the best papers pub- lished in Canadian Acoustics, the journal of the Association. Professor Hodgson received the award for his paper “Empirical Prediction of the Effect of Classroom Design on Verbal Communication Quality.”
Murray Hodgson received A B.Sc.(Hons.) from Queen’s University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southampton. Before join- ing the faculty of the University of British Columbia in 1991, he was a research Associate at the National Research Council of Canada and a Research Fellow at Sherbrooke University. Earlier he held positions at Cambridge University and Southampton University. His current research includes low-frequency noise in rooms, acousti- cal aspects of ‘green’ buildings, auraliza- tion study of optimal reverberation for speech intelligibility, active control of sound fields in large rooms and class- room acoustics.
Professor Hodgson is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a member of the Canadian Acoustical Association, the British Institute of Acoustics and the U.K. Engineering Council. He served as Chair of the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association held in Vancouver, Canada in May 2005. He is also the recipient of Martin Hirschorn IAC prize of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA, Inc. in 2000.
Nico Declerq named assistant pro- fessor at Georgia Tech’s satellite campus in Metz, France
Nico Declercq has been named an assistant professor with the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in Atlanta with main activ-
Ronald Aarts
Ronald Aarts elected Fellow of IEEE
The Board of Directors of the IEEE has elevated Senior Member Prof.dr. Ronald M. Aarts (Digital Signal Processing group) to the Fellow Grade from January 1, 2007, with the follow- ing citation: “For research and applica- tion in signal processing for acoustics and sound reproduction.”
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is con- ferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
“I am very pleased. Especially if you realize that only 0.1% of the IEEE mem- bers receive this honor,” said Aarts. “The secret of my success? My personal three P’s: Patents, Publications, and Product innovations. Sometimes I add a fourth P for People: doing research and cooperate with others makes it more fun. So, I would like to advise my colleagues to mind the Ps!”
Ronald M. Aarts received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1977, and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1995. He joined the optics group at Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1977. There he initially investigated servos and signal processing for use in both Video Long Play players and Compact
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Murray Hodgson