Category Archives: Guest Lectures

Visit with composer Andy Akiho at Kaneko Studios

In honor of Jun Kaneko receiving the Dick and Mary Holland Leadership Award, the Omaha Symphony has commissioned a work by percussionist and composer Andy Akiho, which premiered the weekend of 17 March 2023. Nebraska Acoustics Group members were invited … Continue reading

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Ainley from WJHW presents to UNASA

On 3 November 2021, alum Christopher Ainley (MS ’12) returned to Nebraska for a visit to present on a number of different projects that he’s been working on as a consultant with WJHW in Dallas, TX.  The talk was sponsored by the University … Continue reading

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Prof. Maseiro’s Intro to Acoustics series

Prof. Bruno Maseiro at Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil has organized an impressive series of 15 talks for his Intro to Acoustics class, all available on YouTube https://acoustic.link/masiero-ee838 ! Dr. Lily Wang presented the last one on 30 June … Continue reading

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UNASA Fall 2020 Activities

The University of Nebraska ASA (UNASA) Student Chapter was pleased to sponsored two activities in fall 2020. The first was a presentation on October 16 by Tony Baxter and alum Ryan Skoug of ESI Engineering on assorted structural vibration projects … Continue reading

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Dooling from Univ of Maryland presents to UNASA

The University of Nebraska ASA Student Chapter welcomed Dr. Bob Dooling from the University of Maryland on April 25, 2018, who presented a seminar on “Hearing and Vocal Production in Parrots (the Budgerigar): Are there parallels with speech & language?”.  Dr. Dooling … Continue reading

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Electroacoustics class tours Westside Church

On Thursday, April 14, this year’s Electroacoustics class visited Westside Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to tour the renovated electroacoustic reinforcement system, hosted by Midwest Sound and Lighting‘s Tim Burkhart.  The students appreciated seeing and hearing the line arrays, huge subwoofers, distributed system … Continue reading

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Skoug from ESI Engineering presents to UNASA

Ryan Skoug (MAE ’09) came back to Nebraska on December 4, 2015, to present on a number of different projects that he’s been working on as a consultant with ESI Engineering in Minneapolis, MN.  The talk was sponsored by the University of Nebraska ASA … Continue reading

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Rathsam presents on NASA’s supersonic aircraft research

We welcomed Dr. Jonathan Rathsam (PhD ’08) back to Nebraska on June 26, 2015.  He presented on the work he’s conducting at NASA regarding perception of low-level sonic booms from new styles of supersonic aircraft that are under development.  Jonathan was off next to … Continue reading

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Pyper from K2 Audio visits Nebraska

The University of Nebraska ASA Student Chapter welcomed Ted Pyper of K2 Audio on April 22, 2015.  Ted enjoyed lunch with NAG members at Ponzu Sushi; presented on two of his very cool recent acoustical consulting jobs to both the UNASA group and … Continue reading

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Powell discusses recent high-end home theater projects

We welcomed Eric Powell (MAE ’12) back to Nebraska on April 1, 2015, to present on recent high-end home theater projects that he’s been working on as a consultant with Paradise Theater.  We are so proud of the excellent work that Eric … Continue reading

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