Category Archives: NAG Meetings

NAG End-of-the-Year Party 2016

The Nebraska Acoustics Group celebrated the end of another great academic year on Wednesday, May 4, at Defy Gravity in Omaha.  The event featured much jumping, some dodgeball, volleyball, and even a laser maze challenge! We’re looking forward to the upcoming ASA … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 3-16-16 and 4-13-16

At the March NAG meeting, 360-degree video technology was pervasive as we previewed the new 360 recruitment video for our Architectural Engineering program, and ooohed and aaahed at the Google Cultural Institute’s initiative to put us all onstage.  The four … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 1-20-16 and 2-10-16

For 2016, we have decided to hold NAG meetings monthly through the academic year, rather than every two to three weeks.  At the January meeting, Brenna Boyd discussed the current state-of-the-art related to acoustics in Building Information Modeling (BIM).  BIM is … Continue reading

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NAG Winter Party 2015

The annual Nebraska Acoustics Group Winter Party was held on Wednesday, December 16, 2015.  The party featured italian food from Spezia in Omaha, a game of ‘LCR’ (to determine the order of opening gifts), and our traditional ‘white elephant’ gift … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 11-11-15 and 12-2-15

At the 11-11-15 NAG meeting, Ian Hough presented on the noise measurement campaign and residence improvement program near Chicago airports, with which he was involved prior to joining us at UNL.  The ‘acoustic nugget’ focused on new technology that could maneuver … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 10-7-15 and 10-21-15

At the 10-7-15 NAG meeting, Laura Brill and Brenna Boyd presented on the ongoing work related to the EPA Healthy Schools Project.  Two ‘acoustic nuggets’ were shared, including a favorite Boomwhackers Prelude performance and information on a new VenueDB app. … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 9-9-15 and 9-23-15

The Nebraska Acoustics Group has had a great start to the 2015-16 academic year!  At our first meeting on 9-9-15, we welcomed many new members and heard from students on their summer internship experiences.  One news item that drew our … Continue reading

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NAG End-of-the-Year Party 2015

The Nebraska Acoustics Group celebrated the end of another great academic year on Tuesday, May 5, at Spielbound BoardGame Cafe in Omaha which houses over 1400 board games.  It happened to be Cinco de Mayo, so of course, Qdoba was … 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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NAG Meetings 4-8-15 and 4-22-15

The NAG meeting on 4-8-15 featured sophomore Brenna Boyd who presented on her UCARE-sponsored research project involving noise measurements at UNO hockey games played at the Century Link Center in Omaha this past year.  Next year the UNO hockey team … Continue reading

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