Nebraska Acoustics Group (NAG)

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 being used more and more widely in the design and construction of buildings, and we discussed how acoustics could be more successfully integrated into the BIM process.  The ‘acoustic nugget’ discussed photoacoustic imaging, specifically the scholarly work of Dr. Lihong Wang as featured on NPR.  At February’s NAG meeting, Jay Bliefnick presented on the results of a number of measurement trials he made with new room acoustic measurement equipment in the NAG lab.  The nugget featured Manchester’s Beetham Tower which produces eerie howls particularly windy days.  See it captured on social media!

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 objects with acoustic waves.  At our final NAG meeting for 2015 on 12-2-15, a series of videos demonstrating various acoustic concepts that PCB has put together with Dr. Andrew Barnard (Michigan Tech) was shared as the ‘acoustic nugget’, while Sungbeen Cho presented a project that he worked on in his former consulting position which just recently opened, Nuri Hall at the Daejeon Artist House in S. Korea.  We can’t believe there are only a few weeks remaining to the year… last post of the year will be about our upcoming NAG Holiday Party, Dec. 16, 2015!