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Jeffrey S. Vipperman is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he founded and directs the Sound, Systems and Struc-tures Laboratory. He has performed acoustics research for nearly 20 years in the areas of active/passive noise and vibration control, hearing loss prevention,
structural acoustics, and automated noise classification. Over 70 papers and 120 talks have been authored or co-authored by Dr. Vipperman. He currently chairs Working Group 27 to revise ANSI S1.1 and is a member of the Structural Acoustics Technical Committee of the Acoustical Society of America. In addition, he is also a member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE) and the Executive Committee of the Noise Control and Acoustics Division for American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), where he also chairs the Active Noise Control Technical Committee. He
received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University.
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