Workshops, Short Courses, and Seminars
Annual Workshop
The CAV hosts an annual technology transfer workshop. This workshop is a two-day event at Penn State attended by our corporate sponsors, international liaisons, U.S. 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 U.S. government liaisons, along with lab tours and social activities. A highlight of the workshop is our evening social and student poster competition, where our visitors meet our graduate students and learn about their research.
The 2021 CAV annual workshop was held 19-21 October as a hybrid event. We were pleased to welcome back some of our sponsors in person, but also streamed the workshop online for those unable to travel. We also recorded all of the presentations, including several from sponsors and a few international liaisons. You can find them on our YouTube site — look for the 2021 CAV workshop playlist.
In person attendees enjoyed our evening social, held at the State College minor league baseball park, where our graduate students hosted the annual student poster competition. You can learn more about this year’s competition winners here. Mark your calendars for the 2022 CAV Annual Workshop, to be held Oct. 18-19.
Short Courses
The CAV also sponsors annual short courses in CAV disciplines. We schedule the short courses the day after our Annual Workshop so that our corporate and government sponsors are best able to attend them. Corporate sponsors may send one person to the course at no charge. The fee for additional registrants, and for non-corporate sponsors is $750. Past short courses have included:
- Electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Noise
by by Jose Palacios and Eric Greenwood - Acoustic Black Holes
by Steve Conlon, Micah Shepherd, and several national and international colleagues - Acoustic Metamaterials
by Amanda Hanford and several international colleagues - Piezoelectric Materials and Devices
by Kenji Uchino - Cepstrum Analysis
by Bob Randall of University of New South Wales - Vibration and Noise Control
by Marty Alexander of Bruel and Kjaer - Flow Noise
by Phil Morris and Tim Brungart - 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 the late 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.
You can find links to our most recent seminars on our YouTube channel and and a complete list of archived seminars on our Seminar Archive page.
These talks are 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 accessible only to our members.
