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2011-12 End-of-the-Year NAG Party
The Nebraska Acoustics Group had a fun end-of-the-year celebration, playing mini-golf at Boulder Creek Amusement Park on May 1, 2012. We celebrated the imminent graduation of many of our students: Eric Powell (May 2012), as well as Christopher Ainley, Megan … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 04-18-12
The last official NAG meeting of the 2011-12 academic year! We were pleased to welcome Marta Pulfer, the 7th grader who won the 1st place ASA award from the Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair, to our meeting. Adam Buck … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 3-28-12
Hyun Hong gave the featured presentation at our 3/28/12 NAG meeting on simulating absorptive properties of porous materials. The Acoustic Nugget was on how dementia may be linked to hearing loss (all the more reason to protect your hearing, young … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 03-14-12
Ahhh, the end of a semester! April is notoriously difficult, and so it is with upkeep of this blog! Our group has been tremendously busy, and here finally are some posts on our activities. NAG met on 3/14, right before … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 2-22-12
Happy National Engineers Week! During today’s NAG meeting, we learned about the hot topic of acoustic metamaterials, as introduced by Matt Blevins. If developed into building partitions, these materials may have the ability to provide significant low frequency transmission loss … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 2-8-12
Andrew Hathaway led the discussion at this NAG meeting, discussing the Vienna Musikvereinsaal and his recent visit to this facility over the winter break 2011. The hall is truly stunning visually, and Andrew felt that it deserved its reputation as … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 1-18-12
Happy New Year! The spring semester is under way, and at our first NAG meeting of the semester, we shared news about several upcoming acoustics events in 2012: ASHRAE conference in Chicago, Jan. 21-25 NCAC 50th Anniversary meeting in Dallas, … Continue reading
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Happy Holidays from the Nebraska Acoustics Group!
We had a great NAG holiday party last Wednesday, with good food from Qdoba and Nothing Bundt Cakes! Bingo was the game-du-jour, and everyone seemed to come away happy with their white-elephant-gift-exchange results. Here is our annual holiday photo (complete … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 11-28-11
This NAG meeting featured Eric Powell who presented on the graduate project he’s completing for his Master’s of Architectural Engineering degree. Eric is investigating optimal placement of absorption in small rooms to minimize the impact of low-frequency modes. He’s using … Continue reading
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NAG Meeting 11-07-11
At this week’s NAG meeting, James Dougherty presented on his Master’s of Architectural Engineering project which involves computationally modeling the attenuation through elbows in ductwork using COMSOL. He is comparing both square and radiused elbows, using 1″ and 2″ lining … Continue reading
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