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Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University PO Box 30, State College, Pennsylvania 16804
Joseph Pope
1950-2008
Joe was born on December 20, 1950 in New York City growing up in nearby Scarsdale. He graduated with a bache- lor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where his senior proj- ect was on lawn-mower noise control under Dr. Allan Pierce. He obtained a Ph.D. at Stanford University with a pio- neering dissertation on the transfer of tire and road noise to vehicle occupants.
Known for his modest, gentle approach Joseph Pope helped to make significant contributions in the field of sound-intensity measurement. He worked initially at the General Motors Research Laboratories (GM) at a time when, due to the Noise Control Act of 1972 and the establishment of the Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) at the Environmental Protection Agency, GM was very concerned about vehicle noise. At the same time, the newly available two-channel analyzers became an integral part of noise
research at GM, by Joe and others. Through his mathematical and experi- mental ability Joe helped to develop the well-known cross-spectral formulation for measuring sound intensity using two microphones. He was the first to measure the sound power of a truck
using sound intensity and collaborated in measuring the sound power of engines and locomotives. The work at GM came to an end when ONAC was abolished in 1981. Subsequently acoustical instrument companies, uni- versities and other institutions carried on the work in this field. As a result, in 1982 Joe began working at Bruel & Kjær as an expert on sound-intensity meas- urement. He continued at B&K in Boston until 1991 when he founded his own acoustical consultancy, Pope Engineering. He maintained his associ- ation with B&K for a number of years conducting seminars in noise control with an emphasis on sound intensity. Joe was an ASA fellow and active on the Technical Committee on Noise. He was a board-certified member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE) and a member of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC).
Robert Hickling
We have learned of the deaths of the following ASA members: J. M. Harrison
Jacek Jarzynski
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