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Ginsberg’s contributions as a scientist in the areas of “sound-structuring interac- tions and vibration of complex systems; and, as an educator, for outstanding men- toring and for authoring a series of semi- nal textbooks on engineering dynamics for both engineering educators and prac- titioners.” The Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics is given in recognition of eminent achievement and extraordinary merit in the field of noise control and acoustics. The achievement must include useful applications of the principles of noise control and acoustics to the art and science of mechanical engi- neering. The medal, established in 1987, honors Dr. Per Bruel who pioneered the development of sophisticated noise and vibration measuring and processing equipment.
Dr. Ginsberg was named the first holder of the Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1988. He received a B.C.E. from The Cooper Union in 1965 and M.S. and E.Sc.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1966 and 1970, respectively. The pri- mary focus of Dr. Ginsberg’s work is improvement of techniques for experi- mental modal analysis (EMA), and tur- bomachinery diagnostics.
He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and received the ASA’s Trent Crede Medal in 2005. Dr. Ginsberg is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He served as Technical Program Chair of the ASA’s Spring 2000 meeting, Chair of the Technical Committee on Structural Acostics and Vibraion and Chair of the Books+ Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Acoustics and Vibration.
Jordan J. Baruch awarded the 2007 Arthur M. Bueche Award
Dr. Jordan J. Baruch, was awarded the 2007 Arthur M. Bueche Award by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) “for the promotion of innova- tion and management of science and technology nationally and internation- ally, thereby enhancing the economy of the U.S. and developing nations.”
Dr. Baruch has made significant contributions to acoustic engineering,
Society of America, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and New York Academy of Science.
Dr. Baruch holds 12 patents, is the author of numerous articles, has worked in Africa, India, Indonesia, and Jordan, and has been honored by China and Israel for his work in and with those countries. He was a founder of the Trans- Atlantic Institute of the American Jewish Committee and the US/Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation and a member of the American Boards of Ben Gurion University and the Israel Oceanic and Limnological Research Foundation.
Laymon Miller receives Charles Paul Boner Award
The National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC) has named Laymon N. Miller recipient of the 2007 C. Paul Boner Award. This award is presented to a member of the acoustical consulting community who embodies the qualities of the late C. Paul Boner–teacher, scientist, adminis- trator, technician–and who has made outstanding contributions to the sci- ence of acoustics.
This award has been given only six times in NCAC’s 24-year history. Mr. Miller said, “My being here today under these circumstances is an IMPOSSIBLE DREAM! It is not even “a dream come true” because in all my life I would never have even dreamed of such a thing.”
In 1941, Mr. Miller joined a group of researchers at the Harvard
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the early application of computers to medical and educational practice and management, and teaching technologi- cal innovation at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and Dartmouth College.
Baruch graduated from James Madison High School, Brooklyn, in 1940, and attended Brooklyn College for the next two-and-one-half years. After three years in the Army during World War II, he enrolled as a junior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Baruch received his Sc.D. from MIT in 1950 and was on the MIT faculty from 1948 to 1971. From 1970 to 1974, he was a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, and from 1974 to 1977, he was professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business and professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering, both at Dartmouth College.
Baruch was a founding partner and vice president of Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). Although he left the company from 1966 to 1968 to become department general manager of the MEDINET Department of General Electric, he remained a director of BBN until 1977. He was a also a Founding Member and director of Boston Broadcasters Inc. (Channel 5, Boston) until he joined the Carter administra- tion in 1977 as assistant secretary of commerce for science and technology, a post he held until 1981.
He was elected to membership in NAE in 1974 and became an NAE Fellow and Senior Scholar in 2001. Dr. Baruch is also a fellow of the Acoustical
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