Honors Supplement Award Details

Honors Supplement
Award Details

RAYLEIGH LECTURE (Unit of Award: Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD))
Date Established	1985
Achievement Recognized	This award is given in recognition of presenting the Rayleigh Lecture at the annual ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Lecturers are selected among those who have made pioneering contributions to the sciences and applicat
Limitations	None
Nomination Deadline	09/1
Form of Award	Glass plaque Wood plaque
Frequency of Presentation	Annually
Administrator of Award	Noise Control and Acoustics Division
Recipients Selected By	Invitation by the NCAD Executive Committee
Selection Process	Honor is conferred upon invited lecturer
Funding Availability	Division Custodian Fund
Past Award Recipients	2009 Dr. Scott Sommerfeldt Global Attenuation of Acoustic Fields Using Energy-Based Active Control Techniques 2008 Martin Pollack A History of ASME Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD) 2007 Robert Schlinker Putting it all Together - The Technology stages in the Design of Propulsion Systems for Noise 2006 Donald Thompson A Systems Approach to Noise Mitigation Strategies 2005 Robert Clark Structural Acoustics from Macro to Micro 2004 Hafiz M. Atassi Fluid-Structure Interaction and Acoustics 2003 Earl G. Williams Fourier Acoustics: Uncovering the Origins of Sound 2002 Ilene Busch-Vishniac The Big Problems Remaining in Transduction 2001 Jerry H. Ginsberg Variational Solutions: What Rayleigh and Ritz Did Not Tell Us 2000 William K. Blake Quiet Flow: Emerging Design Methods 1999 Adnan Akay Acoustics of Friction 1998 Gary H. Koopmann Designing Quiet Structures - Virtually 1997 Michael S. Howe Rayleigh Conductivity 1996 Peter A. Nelson Controlled Interference of Acoustic Fields 1995 Maurice M. Sevik Information Extraction from the Scattered Acoustic Field of Waterborne Structures 1994 C. Dan Mote, Jr. Surprises in Axially Moving Material Dynamics 1993 David G. Crighton The High-Speed Many-Bladed Propeller: Asymptotic Theory for its Acoustic Field 1992 Alan D. Pierce Progressive Waves: The Modern Evolution and Refinement of One of the Most Basic Concepts in Acoustics 1991 David Feit Structural Acoustics from Lord Rayleigh to the Present 1990 David T. Blackstock Nonlinear Acoustics 1989 Sir Michael James Lighthill Biomechanics of Hearing Sensitivity 1988 Allan Powell Elements of Flow Noise from Rayleigh to Today 1987 Miguel C. Junger From the Finite to the Boundless: Acoustics of Very Large Systems 1986 J. E. Ffowcs Williams Computer Aided Silence 1985 K. Uno Ingard Acoustics in Physics and Mechanical Engineering

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