Acoustics Students Present Posters at San Diego Conference

Cassey Stypowany’12 & Clint Fleming ‘11

Acoustical Engineering students participated in the first annual Undergraduate Research Exposition at the national Acoustical Society of America meeting in San Diego, CA, Oct. 31^st – Nov. 4^th, 2011. 

Chris Jasinski ‘12

Chris Jasinski ‘12, a double major in Acoustical Engineering & Music and Classical Percussion Performance in The Hartt School, presented a summary of three research projects carried out on the topic of the just noticeable difference (JND) or smallest difference detectable of a room acoustics parameter clarity index (C80). Chris worked on one of the projects and helped mentor the follow-up study. All six students who worked on one of the phases of the project were co-authors on the poster. 

Chris Jasinski, Meghan Ahearn ’09, Clowy Giacomoni ’10, Cailtin Ormsbee ’12, Matthew Scheaffler ’09 and Adam Wells ‘11. “Investigations of the just-noticeable-difference of clarity index (C80).” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130:2429

Cassey Stypowany ‘12, a double major in Acoustical Engineering & Music and Cello Performance in The Hartt School, and Clint Fleming ’11, Mechanical Engineering Acoustics Concentration, presented the results of their study on the effects of different endpin materials on the radiated sound from celli.

Cassey Stypowany, Clint Fleming, R. Celmer, and M.Vigeant. “Study of the effects of different endpin materials on cello sound characteristics.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130:2429

The bi-annual Acoustical Society of America meetings provide an interdisciplinary forum for academics and practitioners alike, in 13 separate sub-disciplines of acoustics.\

Source: Michelle Vigeant