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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 September 1
Form of Award
(May be one or more of the following: Standard certificate, Honorarium, etc ..)
Glass plaque
Honorarium
$750.00
Frequency of Presentation Annual
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


2012
Dr. Philip J. Morris
Jet noise prediction - a historical perspective and future directions

2011
Dr. Andrew Norris
Metamaterials in Acoustics and Vibration: From Theory to Practice

2010
Dr. Ted Farabee
Acoustics from External Flow-Structure Interactions

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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McComieJ@asme.org

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