Category Archives: NAG Meetings

NAG Meeting 02-20-13

Happy National Engineers Week! During this NAG meeting, Adam Buck presented on his recent work, studying the time variance of orchestral musical instrument directivity patterns.  Two Acoustic Nuggets were shared, one featuring Scott Pfeiffer of Threshold Acoustics giving a presentation … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 02-06-13

During this NAG meeting, Andrew Hathaway and Brent Kraay presented on a local acoustical consulting job which they’ve had an opportunity to work on, involving noise emissions from an industrial site to a nearby residential property line in Omaha.  Brent … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 01-16-13

Welcome to the new year!  Sadly, we have not been keeping up with our blog posts … so it’s time to play catch-up now. Each semester, our NAG group takes acoustic measurements of a local space to add to our … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays from NAG!

The annual Nebraska Acoustics Group Winter Party was held on Tuesday, December 4, 2012.  The party featured food from Wheatfields, a game of ‘Hot Potato’ (to determine the order of opening gifts), and our traditional ‘white elephant’ gift exchange.  We … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 11-20-12

This was our last ‘official’ NAG meeting for 2012.  Matt Blevins presented on the work he’s been doing to outline an experimental study aimed at determining the bias and reproducibility of sound power measurement methods in the HVACR industry.  The … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 10-30-12

At this NAG meeting, Andrew Hathaway presented some preliminary results on how variations in the noise level at different time intervals were found to affect human performance and perception.  (Andrew left the next day to participate in a multi-city tour … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 10-09-12

At this NAG meeting, we busily made plans for the upcoming Acoustical Society of America conference in Kansas City.  At least 12 of us are planning to attend!  As usual, we will host a NAG Game Night on Tuesday evening … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 09-25-11

At today’s NAG meeting, some of us enjoyed red bean mooncakes (a traditional Chinese dessert during the annual Harvest Moon Festival), and all of us learned from Carl Hart’s presentation on ‘Finite Element Methods in Acoustics’.  It was interesting to … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 09-11-12

At this NAG meeting, MS student Jenn Francis was the featured speaker.  She gave the presentation she made at the Internoise 2012 conference in NYC for the ‘Old vs New’ session, reviewing Fletcher and Munson’s classic paper “Loudness: Its Definition, … Continue reading

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NAG Meeting 8-28-12

We had a great turnout for our first Nebraska Acoustics Group (NAG) meeting of the academic year on August 28, 2012, and are particularly pleased to welcome our newest NAG members: Joonhee Lee (PhD student) and Devin Wong (MS student). … Continue reading

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