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joint collaboration with the aerospace engineering department of the University of Rome La Sapienza, led to his M.S. (Laurea) thesis on optimal con- trol theory applied to aerodynamics. He began his graduate studies in mechani- cal engineering at Boston University as a Dean’s Fellowship student in 1997 and received a Ph.D. in 2001.
From 2001 to 2009, Zampolli worked as a Senior Scientist in the Applied Research Division, NATO Undersea Research Centre, formerly known as SACLANT Centre in La Spezia, Italy. Currently he is with TNO Defense, Security and Safety in The Hague, the Netherlands, as a Senior Scientist in the sonar group. His research interests are in underwater acoustics, structural acoustics, physical acoustics, and mathematical modeling of wave propagation.
Leo Beranek
Leo Beranek honored by Institute of Acoustics
Leo Beranek was awarded the Institute of Acoustics’ Peter Barnett Memorial Award 2010 at the Reproduced Sound conference in Cardiff sponsored by the Institute of Acoustics. Leo, who is an Honorary Fellow of the IOA, was cited in recog- nition of his “enormous contribution to the field of electro-acoustics, especially in relation to loudspeakers, intelligibil- ity and signal processing.”
A life-long interest in music led Leo to specialize in concert hall and
opera house acoustics. Following trips to more than one hundred of the world’s leading halls and interviews with more than one hundred conduc- tors and music critics, he wrote three books on concert and opera halls.
Ralph N. Ohde
Ralph Ohde honored by Vanderbilt University
Ralph N. Ohde is Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s 2010 recipient of the Robert D. Collins for Excellence in Teaching Award. The Collins Teaching Award is named in honor of Dr. Robert Collins, a distinguished alumnus awardee from the Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Association and a recipient of multiple teaching awards. It recognizes professors in medical fields who exem- plify Dr. Collins’ passion for medical education, teaching and mentoring.
Ralph Ohde received his B.A. in speech from Carthage College in 1966 and his master’s degree in speech-lan- guage pathology from the University of Virginia. In 1978, he completed his Ph.D. in Speech Science and Speech- Language Pathology at the University of Michigan where he also received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. He joined the Vanderbilt facul- ty in 1983 and became a full professor in 1997.
Ohde is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He was the associate edi- tor of speech production for the
tributed to a wide spectrum of topics in elastodynamics, including acoustic microscopy, laser-based ultrasonics, diffraction coefficients, dynamic behavior of composites, and dynamic fracture. Among his early works was his book Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids, published in 1973 (Elsevier Science, Ltd., Amsterdam).
Professor Achenbach, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is the recipient of the two highest presidential awards in science and technology in the United States: the US National Medal of Technology (2003), and the US National Medal of Science (2005).
The Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) is an Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers ded- icated to serving the engineering com- munity through the development and application of engineering mechanics.
Mario Zampolli
Dr. Mario Zampolli receives A. B. Wood Medal
Mario Zampolli was awarded the A.B. Wood Medal and Prize by the Institute of Acoustics for “distinguished contributions to the application of underwater acoustics.” It is named after Albert Beaumont Wood, and is pre- sented in alternate years to European and North American scientists.
Mario Zampolli studied mathemat- ics at the University of Bologna, where a
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