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Technical Committee on Noise
of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

MINUTES

ASA Technical Committee on Noise

Thursday, 19 May 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, B.C., Canada – Georgia A room

1. Welcome to members, guests, students
2. Introduction of those present and attendance list
3. Minutes from ASA San Diego, November 2004
correction: special session on Product Safety Issues in Acoustical Materials should have been listed under ASA/INCE Minneapolis, not ASA Providence. Minutes approved

4. Announcements:

Congratulations:
Outstanding Young Presenters (San Diego): Beatriz Pinto, Cesare Hall
New Fellows of the ASA: Bennett Brooks, Murray Hodgson
R. Bruce Lindsay Award: Lily Wang
Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal: Gilles Daigle
ASA Gold Medal: Allan Pierce

Thanks:
Meeting Chair: Murray Hodgson
Technical Program Chair: Stan Dosso
TPOM representative: Jerry Lilly
Organizers of Special Sessions: Ning Xiang, Jian Kang, Keith Wilson, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Bennett Brooks, Hugh Davies, Murray Hodgson, John Seiler, Angelo Campanella, Brandon Tinianov
Session chairs, presenters
Scribe: Connor Duke

5. Program Planning

  1. Minneapolis, 17-21 October 2005: joint with NOISE-CON
INCE technical program chairs – Patricia Davies, Stuart Bolton
TC-Noise TPOM representative, 24-25 June 2005 – Mike Stinson

INCE abstract deadline: 1 May 2005
extended to 23 May 2005
ASA abstract deadline: 6 June 2005
paper deadline: 17 June 2005

** for all sessions joint with NOISE-CON, authors are expected to provide a 4-8 page summary article that will appear in the NOISE-CON 2005 Proceedings

  • Special ASA/INCE session in honor of William W. Lang (with NOISE-CON, ASACOS) (Paul Schomer, George Maling)
  • Specifying uncertainties in acoustic measurements (with NOISE-CON, ASACOS) (William Murphy)
  • Hospital interior noise control (with NOISE-CON, EA, AA) (Ilene Busch-Vishniac, Jim West)
may need two _ day sessions
  • Laser Doppler vibrometry measurements in underwater and radiation problems (with NOISE-CON, SA, PA) (Jerry Carroll)
  • Current status of noise policy (with NOISE-CON) (Bennett Brooks)
  • Workshop on methods for community noise and annoyance evaluation II (with NOISE-CON) (Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp)
the two sessions above may be merged
  • Advances in noise, vibration, and harshness in automotive design (with NOISE-CON, SA, PA) (Daniel Raichel)

Special sessions with NOISE-CON as lead sponsor – Patricia Davies, Stuart Bolton
Approximately 32 sessions on the books, anticipate that 20 will come about

  1. Providence, 10-15 June 2006

These sessions will have to be finalized at the Minneapolis ASA meeting

  • Audio-visual design in soundscapes (Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and Bennett Brooks)
  • 50 years of speaker privacy (with AA, SC) (Greg Tocci)
  • Noise control education (with Committee on Education, EA) (Bill Murphy)

  1. Honolulu, 28 Nov.- 2 Dec. 2006: joint with Acoustical Society of Japan, followed by INTERNOISE Hawaii

These sessions will have to be finalized at the Minneapolis ASA meeting. Discussions with our counterparts in the ASJ are ongoing because all special sessions will be co-organized by the two societies and, because of space limitations, we may be limited to 4, say, special sessions.

  • HVAC noise control (Dan Raichel, Bennett Brooks)
  • Medical facility noise (Ilene Busch-Vishniac)
  • Measurement and control of consumer product noise (Matt Nobile)
  • Cultural perception and response to noise (James Irwin, Joe Pope)
  • Soundscapes and standards (Bennett Brooks, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp)
  • Sports acoustics (Joe Pope, Bob Collier)
to include baseball bat noise, crowd sounds, PA systems, community noise exposure
  • Lombard effect revisited (Lou Sutherland)
  • Urban noise modeling (Keith Wilson)

  1. Salt Lake City, 4-6 June 2007

  1. New Orleans, Fall 2007

  1. Paris, June 2008: joint with European Acoustics Association

  1. ? San Francisco, Fall 2008, joint with AES

Fairly enthusiastic support for having a joint meeting with AES. Some concern expressed about having two joint meetings in a row (cost). There was a preference for a joint meeting with AES in Fall 2010 in Los Angeles.


6. Reports
  1. report from Technical Council (Mike Stinson)
  • session chairs urged to complete and return session forms to indicate no-shows – Exec. Council wants accurate information to see the extent of the problem
  • European Acoustic Association has asked ASA to advertise by e-mail the Table of Contents for their publication Acta Acustica. General agreement. Dick Botteldooren, Editor-in-Chief of Acta Acustica said he would investigate the possibility of a reciprocal arrangement.
  1. JASA Associate Editors for Noise (Keith Wilson, Ken Cunefare, Allan Zuckerwar)
Keith: within next year or two, multimedia links within JASA electronic publishing. ARLO will be associated with JASA, perhaps renamed JASA Express. Emphasis will be on rapid turnaround. A few people were willing to serve as express reviewers; concern was expressed about providing monetary incentives for speedy review. With regard to the NIH ruling that all papers for which NIH funding was obtained should be submitted to the free-access PubMed Central, it has been decided that the onus will be on the authors not the publishing journal to submit their articles.
  1. ARLO Associate Editor for Noise (Mike Stinson)
Keith Wilson is the new Editor-in-Chief of ARLO
  1. Medals & Awards (Nancy Timmerman)
There are quite a few ASA medals available to members of Noise (R. Bruce Lindsay Award, Silver Medal, Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Medal, Gold Medal, Distinguished Service Citation, Honorary Fellowship). Contact Nancy for nomination procedures.
  1. Membership (John Erdreich)
To nominate someone for Fellowship, require one nominating letter and two letters of support. At least two of these three letters must come from a Fellow of the ASA
  1. ASACOS (Rich Peppin)
Paul Schomer: There is a move to get companies to sponsor specific Standards, so they can be provided free to interested people
  1. Student Council (Connor Duke)
  • It is planned to present a Mentor Award at the Minneapolis meeting. Nomination sheet at the Student Council website, Sept. 5 deadline
  • Connor is working with Erica Bowden on organizing Student Chapters
  • Students with entries in the Noise Young Presenter competition, or in Best Student Paper awards for other TCs, would like feedback on their presentations. Ralph Muehleisen thinking of reworking judging sheets so that this can be done more easily. Joe Pope would like students to feel free to contact judging convenor
  • The student webpage contains a data base of Fellowships. They would appreciate additional suggestions.
  • Would like links to the student web page
  1. Public Policy (Larry Finegold)
No report
  1. Books+ (Brandon Tinianov)
No report
  1. Joint AA/Noise subcommittee for speech privacy in health care buildings (Greg Tocci)
The Subcommittee had their first meeting. They are now up and running, and will meet every ASA meeting on Wednesday. Initial objective is to prepare guidelines as a planning guide for hospitals.
  1. Global noise policy (Alan Marsh)
Technical Study Group 5, of International-INCE, has prepared a Draft Report on Global Noise Policy. Policies vary widely from country to country. ASA, as a member Society, gets to vote on the acceptance of the Draft Report. TC-Noise members agreed that Mike Stinson would collect circulate document to members, collect responses, determine if there was a consensus, and provide a vote on behalf of the ASA.
  1. Young Presenters (Ralph Muehleisen)
There can be one, two, or no awards for “Outstanding Paper by a Young Presenter” at each ASA meeting. We have one winner this meeting … Connor Duke for his presentation “Multi-channel active noise control on an axial fan using variable loads”.

7. Technical initiatives

  1. 2005 (Vancouver and Minneapolis)
  • Young presenters - $1000
  • Web page maintenance (Blomberg) - $300
  • Virtual Classroom Student Design Competition (with AA, SC, PP; Brooks)
Decided that it was premature to proceed with this Initiative
  • support of IEC/ISO meetings in Toronto (George Wong) - $1000
  • travel support for two invited speakers (Paul Schomer) - $1500
  • NHCA sponsorship (Elliott Berger, Mark Stephenson) - $1700

  1. 2006 (Rhode Island and Honolulu)
  • Young presenters - $1000
  • Web page maintenance (Blomberg) - $300
  • Classroom acoustics outreach (Lubman) - $2000

8. Comments on this meeting
Good meeting, excellent job by Murray Hodgson in organizing the classroom acoustics sessions and public forum. However: HVAC noisy; discontent with technical sessions being interrupted by computers being plugged into projector between each paper – would like to have a computer provided in each room so people just bring memory sticks or CDs and load talks at beginning of session; want sound system connected, with built in FM transmitter;; overhead projectors were not provided as advertised; would like technical attendant in each room during sessions.

9. New business

10. Next meeting, Tuesday 18 October 2005, 7:30 p.m.

11. Adjourn
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