Quick Links
Workshops, Short Courses, and Seminars
Spring Workshop
Each Spring, the CAV holds its technology transfer workshop - a two day event held at Penn State attended by our corporate sponsors, international liaisons, US government liaisons, and Penn State CAV faculty and students. The workshop is a mix of technical presentations by faculty, students, corporate sponsors, and international and US government liaisons, along with lab tours and social activities. The workshop also gives our corporate sponsors an opportunity to provide feedback on CAV activities and performance.
The 2013 workshop was held 29-30 April 2013 at the Nittany Lion Inn. The workshop was attended by over 50 corporate sponsors, guests, and government and international liaisons, including members of ISVR, INSA de Lyon, DLR, KAIST, KU-Leuven, and Hong Kong Polytechnic.
Below are the 2013 presentations (including the workshop agenda):
- CAV Introduction and Workshop agenda, by George Lesieutre
- Acoustic Characterization of Materials, part I, by Bernie Tittmann
- Acoustic Characterization of Materials, part II, by Joe Rose
- Adaptive Structures and Noise Control, by George Lesieutre
- Flow Induced Noise, by Bill Bonness
- Systems and Structures Health Management, Part I, by Karl Reichard
- Systems and Structures Health Management, Part II, by Cliff Lissenden
- Propagation and Radiation, by Vic Sparrow
- Rotorcraft Acoustics and Dynamics, by Ed Smith
- Structural Vibration and Acoustics, by Steve Hambric
- Underwater Acoustics and Instrumentation, by David Bradley
There were also special presentations from our corporate sponsors and international and government liaisons:
- Overview of Research Activities at DLR, by Robert Meyer
- Sound and Vibration Perception at INSA de Lyon, by Etienne Parizet
- Overview of Pratt and Whitney Hot Section Engineering, by Rick Labelle
- Overview of ISVR, by Jeremy Astley
- Research at the Consortium for Sound and Vibration Research at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, by Li Cheng
- Acoustics Resonances in Nuclear Boiling Water Reactors, by Tom Scarbrough, US NRC
- Sound Visualization and Manipulation at KAIST, by Yang-Hann Kim
- Brief Overview of Acoustics at NIST, by Lee Gorny
- Advances in Acoustics Instrumentation at PCB, by Mark Valentino
- Inverse Structural Acoustic Source and Material Identification in a Massively Parallel Finite Element Framework, by Tim Walsh, Sandia National Labs
- KU-Leuven Noise and Vibration Research Group, by Wim Desmet
- Sound Radiation Problems at Volvo Construction Equipment, by John Wang
Finally, a few other Penn State organizations were highlighted:
- Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics, by Vic Sparrow
- Penn State Fluid Dynamics Consortium, by Rob Kunz
- Penn State Learning Factory, by Mary Frecker
the 2012 workshop was held 14-15 May 2012.
Below are the 2012 presentations (including the workshop agenda):
- CAV Introduction and Workshop agenda, by George Lesieutre
- Acoustic Characterization of Materials, by Matt Kropf
- Adaptive Structures and Noise Control, by George Lesieutre
- Flow Induced Noise, by Dean Capone
- Machinery Prognostics and Condition Monitoring, by Karl Reichard
- Propagation and Radiation, by Vic Sparrow
- Rotorcraft Acoustics and Dynamics, by Ed Smith
- Structural Vibration and Acoustics, by Steve Hambric
- Underwater Acoustics and Instrumentation, by Chris Barber
There were also special presentations from our corporate sponsors and international and government liaisons:
- Overview of Research Activities at DLR-Engine Acoustics and Liners for Noise Reduction, by Lars Enghardt
- Overview of Virtual Noise Synthesis at INSA de Lyon, by Goran Pavic
- Aircraft Cabin Acoustic Modeling, by Adam Weston
- Acoustic and Vibration Challenges at Moog, by Chris Layer
- The Sierra/SD Parallel FE Structural-Acoustics Software, by Jerry Rouse
- Using Time-Frequency Methods to address Shock Testing Issues, by John Hacker and Ed Heyd
Short Courses
Periodically, the CAV sponsors short courses in CAV disciplines. Usually, we schedule the short courses before or after our Spring Workshop so that our corporate sponsors are best able to attend them. This year, Drs. Tim Brungart and Phil Morris gave a short course on Flow Noise. Sponsors and liaisons may send one person to the course at no charge. The fee for additional registrants is $600. Past short courses have included:
- Fundamentals of Sound and Vibration Measurements (by Chris Barber)
- Digital Signal Processing (by Karl Reichard)
- Shock and Vibration Testing (by Joe Testa of Unholtz-Dickie)
- Statistical Energy Analysis (by Evan Davis of Boeing)
- Structural Health Monitoring (by Karl Reichard and Jeff Banks)
- Turbomachinery Noise (by Wolfgang Neise of DLR)
- Active Control of Sound and Vibration (by Phil Nelson and Steve Elliott of ISVR)
- Structure-borne sound (by the late Manfred Heckl)
Seminars
Each semester, each CAV technical group hosts a lunchtime seminar. CAV members, as well as outside guests from other universities, government agencies, or industry, give technical talks on topics of interest to the CAV community.
We are now making many of these talks available to our corporate sponsors via the videoconferencing capability housed in the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics classroom. We announce the talks to our members and corporate sponsors about a week in advance, and provide videoconferencing access information to our corporate sponsors. We have also established an archive of past talks that are accessable only to our members.