Samantha “Sammi” Rawlings and Joshua Magee, who both graduated from CETA in May 2007, were awarded First Prize in the Best Student Paper Award competition held at the 154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America conference in New Orleans recently.
They made their presentation during one of several sessions on Architectural Acoustics held throughout the conference by both professional researchers and students. The award was made by a subcommittee of ASA judges who anonymously attended each session and scored student participants based upon the quality of both the content of the paper and its presentation.
Rawlings and Magee presented the results of their undergraduate research project in which they studied the acoustic signatures of footfall noise. Their project involved designing, building, and using twelve different floors as walking surfaces for male and female volunteers. Each participant wore shoes with hard, medium and soft soles, providing previously unknown information regarding the particular sound power spectrum produced by each shoe/floor combination. The measurements were made in the Reverberation Room in CETA’s Acoustics Engineering Laboratory. The project was part of a research grant from the Paul S. Veneklasen Research Foundation obtained by their advisor, Dr. Bob Celmer.
Rawlings graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, majoring in Acoustics and Music, in May 2007. Originally from Rantoul, Illinois, she currently works as an Acoustical Engineer with Veneklasen Associates in Santa Monica, California. Magee graduated in May 2007 magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with an acoustics concentration. A native of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, he is currently a staff engineer at The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company in Hartford, Connecticut. He will be attending graduate school this fall at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
If you would like information about the Acoustics and Music program or the Mechanical Engineering with concentration in Acoustics major in CETA, please contact Robert D. Celmer, Ph.D., P.E. Director, Acoustics Program & Laboratory; (860) 768-4792 or http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/acoustics.
Rawlings and Magee present their findings to
CETA students, faculty, and staff in May 2007.
One of the presentation slides, showing the duo
with the shoes to be used by the volunteer walkers
for the measurements.
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