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2022

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Sean Collier Penn State PhD candidate 3/21/2022 An Introduction to Phase-Based Video Vibration Processing
Dr. Yi Wang University of South Carolina 4/4/2022 Parametric Aeroelastic Reduced Order Models with State Consistence Enforcement
Dr. John Cormack University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 4/18/2022 Diffracting and Nonlinear Shear Wave Propagation in Transversely Isotropic Soft Tissue
Kiran Govindswamy Senior Vice President at FEV's North American Technical Center 4/22/2022 NVH Aspects of Electric Drive Unit Development and Vehicle Integration
Chaitanya Bakre Penn State PhD Candidate 4/29/2022 Fully Noncontact Laser Ultrasound System and Methods for Monitoring Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes
Dr. Mark Miller Penn State Aerospace Engineering 5/5/2022 Accessing the Acoustics of High Reynolds Number Systems Using Anechoic Pressure Testing

2021

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Yang Yu Penn State 12/7/2021 Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Data-Driven Modeling and Discovery of Dynamic Systems
Mehdi Kiani Penn State 11/16/2021 Advanced Biomedical Interfaces with Innovative Integrated Circuits and Systems
Ted Worden Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division 5/11/2021 Aeroacoustic Characteristics of Supersonic Impinging Jets
Roland Platz Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany 5/6/2021 Approaches for Semi-Active and Active State Control in Structural Dynamics under Uncertainty
Andrea Arguelles Penn State Engineering Science and Mechanics 4/28/2021 Ultrasound Beyond Imaging: Quantitative Tools for Materials Characterization
Hong Chen Washington University in St. Louis 4/14/2021 Targeting the Brain with Focused Ultrasound
Yun Jing Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics 4/1/2021 Bilayer Phononic and Photonic Graphene: A New Playground for Twistronics
Daning Huang Penn State Aerospace Engineering 2/23/2021 Surrogate and Reduced-Order Modeling for Enabling Efficient Aerothermoelastic Design and Analysis of Hypersonic Structures

2020

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Ryan Blessington Penn State M.S. Student 8/5/2020 Investigation of a Passive Balancer for VTOL Aircraft Rotor Systems
Dr. Stephen Hambric Penn State CAV 7/15/2020 Fantastic Vibroacoustic Resources and Where to Find Them
Dr. Jackie O’Connor Penn State Mechanical Engineering 6/19/2020 Introducing the Penn State Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach
Dr. Vamshi Krishna Chillara Los Alamos National Lab 2/19/2020 Acoustic Collimated Beam (ACCObeam) Source for Imaging through Attenuating Materials: Application to Borehole Integrity Monitoring
Dr. Jennifer Cooper Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 2/6/2020 Impact of Salinity on Predicted Transmission Loss and Predicting Errors through Machine Learning

2019

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Dr. Tim Brungart Penn State 12/6/2019 The Control of Quadcopter Propeller Noise
Dr. Xin Ying Penn State 12/4/2019 Manufacturing, Materials, and Mechanics of Flexible Electronics for Highly Deformable Structures
Dr. Chris Kube Penn State 11/18/2019 Advancing The Science of Metallic Additive Manufacturing Through Ultrasonic Characterization Of Laser-Generated Melt Pools
Dr. Kostas Papakonstantinou Penn State 11/13/2019 Optimum Life-Cycle Policies and Value of Structural Monitoring Quantification with POMDPs and Deep Reinforcement Learning
Dr. Omar Alakran NC State 11/4/2019 Capacitave Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers on Glass Substrates for Imaging, Sensing, and Therapy
Dr. Ying-Tsong Lin Woods Hole 10/28/2019 Three-Dimensional Shallow Water Acoustics
Dr. Michael Bianco UC San Diego 10/23/2019 Introduction To Machine Learning in Aoustics: Theory and Applications
Eric Bechhoefer GPMS, Inc. 10/21/2019 Health and Usage Monitoring Systems Return on Investment: Making the Business Case for HUMS
Dr. Huageng Luo Xiamen University, China 10/4/2019 Physics-based Data Analytics and Its Application in Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring
Dr. Jayant Sirohi University of Texas at Austin 4/12/2019 Wind Energy Harvesting from Galloping
Dr. Jason Anderson Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division 4/8/2019 Airfoil Shape Effects on Force and Sound Response to Incident Turbulent Flows
Dr. Stanislav Emelianov Georgia Tech 3/20/2019 The Smaller the Better – Isn’t that Obvious? (Research in Ultrasound)
Dr. Stephen Hambric Penn State 1/9/2019 To Infinity and Beyond: The Amazing Uses of Infinite Structure Mobility Theory

2018

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Dr. Jackie O’Connor Penn State 12/10/2018 Swirling Flow Instabilities and their Applications to Gas Turbine Engines
Dr. Joe Rose Penn State 12/5/2018 Avoiding Infrastructure Catastrophic Failure with Ultrasonic Guided Wave Inspection
Dr. Yousof Azizi Bridgestone 11/7/2018 Automotive Systems Noise and Vibration and Application of Lightweight Sandwich Structures
Dr. Tim Hall University of Michigan 10/12/2018 Instrumentation for Histotripsy Ultrasound Therapy
Dr. Eric Greenwood NASA Langley Research Center 10/9/2018 Rotorcraft Aeroacoustic Modeling using Parameter Identification Methods
Dr. John Tague Office of Naval Research 9/25/2018 The US Navy’s Submarine Force: Platforms, Missions, Technology
Dr. Nhan Nguyen NASA Ames Research Center 4/18/2018 Performance Adaptive Aeroelastic Wing Technology for Aircraft Drag Optimization and Aeroelastic Control
Stacy Sidle University of Maryland Ph.D. Candidate 4/10/2018 Investigation of Engine-Airframe Vibration Due to Main Rotor HUB Loads using a Substructuring Framework
Dr. Andrew Barnard Michigan Tech 4/6/2018 Multi-Modal and Short-Range Transmission Loss in Ice-Covered, Near-Short Arctic Waters
Dr. Nathan Alexander Virginia Tech 3/26/2018 Acoustic Beamforming and Measurements of Turbulence Ingestion Noise in the VT Stability Wind Tunnel
Dr. Jeffrey Vipperman University of Pittsburgh 3/20/2018 Design of Broadband, Non-singular Cloaks of Homogenous Materials using Multi-Transform Methods
Dr. Matthew Urban The Mayo Clinic 3/13/2018 Ultrasound-Based Wave Propagation Techniques for Elastographic Characterization of Soft Tissues
Dean Scott Sommerfeldt Brigham Young University 2/6/2018 Global Active Control of Sound and Vibration

2017

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Dr. Michael Jonson Penn State 12/1/2017 Methods of Obtaining Radiated Sound Power from Underwater Turbomachinery with Reverberant Environments
Dr. Ravi Rajamani drR2 Consulting 11/29/2017 The Role of Standards in the Development of PHM in Aerospace
Dr. Arthur Hornbach Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation 11/13/2017 Deep Submergence Sonar
Dr. Aimy Wissa University of Illinois 11/6/2017 Bioinspired Adaptive Systems for Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion
Dr. Matthew Allen University of Wisconsin-Madison 10/13/2017 An Introduction to Interface Modeling and Reduction in Structural Dynamics
Dr. Paris Von Lockette Penn State 4/18/2017 The Magneto-Active Composites and Structures (MACS) Lab at PSU
Dr. Raj Kothapalli Penn State 4/3/2017 Photoacoustic Imaging of Mice and Men
Dr. Benjamin Beck Penn State 3/28/2017 Formulation and Comparison of Modal Analysis tools: Poly Reference Estimation vs. Singular Value Decomposition Approaches
Michael Roemer Penn State 3/20/2017 Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Statistical Classifiers for the Detection and Classification of Control Valve Blockages
Kalki Sharma Penn State 3/15/2017 Incorporating Acoustic Assessment into the Design and Analysis of Rotorcraft
Dr. Sheri L. Martinelli Penn State 2/23/2017 Numerical Simulation of Acoustic Wavefronts Propagating in an Uncertain Environment

2016

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Brian Reinhardt Penn State 12/5/2016 Sensors in Nuclear Reactors
Dr. Marcias Martinez Clarkson University 11/11/2016 Aircraft Life Extension
Dr. Oliver Robin University of Sherbrooke 11/8/2016 SA Reverb + TL
Dr. JohnPaul Abbott National Institute of Standards and Technology 10/19/2016 Wind Noise Reduction
Dr. Julianna Simon University of Washington (until December 2016)
Penn State (January 2017)		 10/17/2016 Ultrasonic Management of Kidney Stones
Dr. Brian Anderson Brigham Young University 4/13/2016 Time Reversal for Energy Fluid and Elastic Media
Dr. Steven Cummer Duke University 4/8/2016 Cloaking Sound and Light with Metamaterials
William Welsh Sikorsky 4/6/2016 Helicopter Dynamics Fantasies (and some realities)
Grant Skidmore Penn State Applied Research Laboratory 3/23/2016 The Mitigation of Pulsation in Ventilated Supercavities
Dr. Daniel Russell Penn State 2/10/2016 Explaining Ping and Sting: Acoustics and Vibration of Baseball Bats and Other Sports Equipment
Dr. Charles Holland Penn State Applied Research Laboratory 1/7/2016 Evidence for a Common Scale 0.1m that Controls Seabed Scattering and Reverberation in Shallow Water

2015

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Kenneth Ledford Penn State 12/7/2015 Acoustic Monitoring of Femtosecond Laser Ablation
Dr. Kwang Kim University of Pittsburgh 11/20/2015 Photoacoustics Imaging Using Novel Contrast Agents
Christopher Lyman U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research 11/16/2015 Zero Maintance Aircraft Initiative
Dr. Jason Van Velso Integrity Associates, Inc. 11/13/2015 The Present and Future Roles of NDE and SHM in the Power Generation Industry
Dr. Massimo Ruzzene Georgia Institute of Technology 11/11/2015 Metamaterials and Periodic Lattices for Wave and Vibration Control
Dr. Brian Mace University of Auckland, New Zealand 6/15/2015 Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics and Application to Spot-Welded Structures
Dr. Leonard Lopes NASA Langley Research Center 4/17/2015 Mixed-Fidelity Aircraft Noise Prediction: Progress Toward a Unified Prediction Framework
Dr. Andrew Morrison Joliet Junior College 3/3/2015 Time Resolved Interferometry and Phase Vocoder Analysis of a Caribbean Steelpan
Dr. Kyle Sinding Penn State 3/4/2015 Spray-on Transducers: A Technological Advancement in Structural Health Monitoring
Dr. Mark Wochner AdBm Technologies 3/2/2015 From Basic Research to Start-up: The Development and Commercialization of University Based Research
Dr. Carr Everbach Swarthmore College 1/23/2015 Biomedical Ultrasound: Not “Just Sonar”

2014

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Dr. Parisa Sholouhi Penn State 12/15/2014 Fusion of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Data
Dr. Kenneth Brenter Penn State 12/8/2014 Rotor Source Noise Prediction and Challenges of Rotor Noise Reduction and Abatement
Dr. Micah Shepherd Penn State Applied Research Laboratory 12/5/2014 Reducing the Noise Radiated by a Pressurized, Ribbed Panel Using Structural-Acoustic Optimization
Dr. Peter Newman Penn State 12/3/2014 Conserving Acoustic Environments in Protected Natural Areas
Tim Waters ISVR – University of Southampton 11/12/2014 Modelling Piezo-Actuated Structural Waves for the Prediction of Ultrasonic De-Icing Performance
Dr. Jonathan Keller National Renewable Energy Laboratory 9/15/2014 Wind Turbine Testing and Research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Giulio Molinari ETH Zurich doctoral candidate 9/12/2014 Design and Realization of a Compliant Adaptable Wing
Professor Jae-Hung Han Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 4/25/2014 Flight Dynamics Characteristics of Flapping Wing Vehicles
Mr. Bryan Glaz U.S. Army RDECOM 4/24/2014 Selected Topics in Nonlinear Aerodynamics and Structural Dynamics in Support of Next-Generation Army Aviation
Dr. Jason Philtron (Bostron) Penn State 4/22/2014 A Guided Wave Phased Array Sensor Tuning for Improved Defect Detection and Characterization
Dr. Alper Erturk Georgia Institute of Technology 4/18/2014 Electroelastic Dynamical Systems for Energy Harvesting and Bio-Inspired Locomotion
Dr. Kent Gee Brigham Young University 4/17/2014 A Tale of Scale: Spersonic Jet Noise from the Laboratory through Explosive Volcanoes
Dr. Sarah McGuire University of Pennsylvania 4/14/2014 Evaluation and Modeling the Impact of Aircraft Noise on Sleep
Ms. Xiaoning Xi Penn State 4/4/2014 NDE of Composite Biopolymer Material at Nanoscale by AFM Based Nanoindentification and SAM
Mr. Jeffrey Fullerton Acentech Incorporated 2/25/2014 A Day in the Life of a Consultant
Mr. Shawn Anderson Fisher Valves 1/22/2014 Control Valve Health Monitoring and Prognostics

2013

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Dr. Samuel Pinson French Naval Academy, France 12/16/ 2013 Seafloor Sound-Speed Profile and Interface Dip Angle Characterization by the Image Source Method
Dr. Steve Hambric Penn State 12/10/2013 Calculating Structural Vibration and Stress from Turbulent Flow Induced Forces
Dr. Peretz Friedmann University of Michigan 10/25/2013 On Blade Control of Rotor Vibration, Noise and Performance – Just Around the Corner?
Dr. Timothy Walsh Sandia National Laboratories 10/4/2013 A Massively Parallel Finite Element Capability for Forward and Inverse Structural Acoustics Simulations
Dr. Hans DeSmidt University of Tennessee 9/24/2013 Automatic Balancing of Rotor Systems via Passive Nonlinear Devices
Dr. Richard Raspet University of Mississippi 9/13/2013 Inert Gas-Condensing Vapor Thermoacoustics: Refrigeration
Dr. Keith Wilson U.S. Army 6/18/2013 Lloyd’s Mirror and the Predictability of Sound Propagation Outdoors
Mr. Brian Reinhard Penn State 4/19/2013 Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation
Mr. Matthew V. Golden Scantek, Inc. 4/11/2013 Theory and Application of Acoustical Beamforming Using the Norsonic Nor848 Acoustical Camera
Dr. Timothy Brungart Penn State 4/4/2013 Fan Noise
Dr. Karl Sweitzer Booz Allen Hamilton 22 March 2013 Random Vibration Stress Response Fatigue Analysis: Theorectical Background and Currect Research
Dr. Norman Wereley University of Maryland 3/19/2013 Adaptive Energy Absorption Systems Using Magnetorheological Fluids

2012

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Robert Cyphers Penn State 12/7/2012 Research on Low Frequency Composite Transducers Fabricated Using a Sol-gel Spray-On Method
Dr. Michael Roemer Impact Technologies, a Sikorsky Aircraft Company 12/4/2012 High Frequency Vibration Monitoring for Engine Component Prognosis
Dr. Mathias Basner University of Pennsylvania 11/30/2012 Aircraft Noise Effects on Sleep and Health
Dr. Marcelo Dapino Ohio State 11/29/2012 Emerging Technologies for Fabrication and Design of Adaptive Structures
Dr. Hugo Camargo and Dr. James K. Thompson NOISH 11/9/2012 Longwall Noise control Developement and Hearing Loss Prevention Brand Overview
Grant Skidmore Penn State 11/8/2012 Presentation of Preliminary Findings on Pulsation of Ventilated Supercavities
Dr. Paris Von Lockette Penn State 4/26/2012 Actuation via Magnetic Torque Generation in Magnetorheological Elastomers
Matthew Rigdon Penn State 4/24/2012 Identifying Patterns of Usage from Vehicle Sensor Data
Dr. Noureddine Atalla Sherbrooke University 4/13/2012 Practical Modeling of the Vibroacoustics Response of Structures with Attached Noise Control Materials
Dr. Sung Nam Jung Konkuk Universit 4/5/2012 Rotorcraft Research Activities at Konkuk University, Focusing on HART II Validation Work
Dr. William Blake U.S. Navy, retired 3/28/2012 Flow Noise from Fluid-Loaded Elastic Surfaces with Distributed Irregularities
Cliff Searfass Penn State 3/15/2012 Fabrication and Characterization of Bismuth Titanate Thick Films Fabricated Using a Spray-On Deposition Technique for High Temperature Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation
Dr. Thomas Howarth U.S. Navy Underwater Warfare Center 2/9/2012 Acoustic Metamaterials

2011

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Scott Pflumm Penn State 12/9/2011 Utilizing a Dynamic Fuel Pressure Sensor for Detecting Failure Modes in Cummins Pressure Time (PT) Fuel Pumps
Dr. Allan Pierce Boston University 12/7/2011 Low Frequency Behavior of Sandy and Muddy Sediments
Dr. Philippe Blanc-Benon École Centrale de Lyon, France 11/30/2011 Propagation of Nonlinear N-Waves in Fully Developed Turbulence: Laboratory Scale Experiments and Theoretical Analysis
Dan Palumbo NASA Langley Research Center 10/24/2011 Topics on the Wall Pressure of the Turbulent Boundary Layer
Dr. Cornel Sultan Virginia Tech 10/21/2011 Tensegrity Structures Design for Control, Energy Harvesting, and Deployment
Sam Diaquilla BASWAphon 10/10/2011 Marketing Acoustical Consulting
Dr. Jose Palacios Penn State 4/25/2011 Low-Power, Non-Thermal Ultrasonic De-icing System for Helicopter Rotor Blades
Dr. Zoubeida Ounaies Penn State 4/14/2011 Research in the Electroactive Materials Characterization Laboratory
David Parks Penn State 3/29/2011 Piezoelectric Material to Perform Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation within an Operating Reactor Core
Dr. Bart Lipkens Western New England College 3/14/2011 On the Use of Acoustophoresisin Ultrasonic Standing Waves for Particle Separation
Dr. Brian Elbing Penn State Applied Research Lab 2/28/2011 Acoustic Measurements of Drag Reduced Turbulent Boundary Layer Flows
Anthony Seman III Office of Naval Research 2/17/2011 Ship Systems and Machinery Health Monitoring and Control

2010

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Chad Smith Penn State M.S. Student 12/8/2010 Shallow Water Aacoustics
Dr. Sven Schmitz Penn State 12/6/2010 Wind Turbines
Dr. Michael Krane Penn State Applied Research Lab 12/1/2010 Aeroacoustics of Human Speech Sound Production
Dr. Ephrahim Garcia Rensaeler Polytechnic Institute 11/19/2010 Energy Harvesting Systems
Ben Faber Faber Acoustics 10/18/2010 Vibro-Acoustic Measurements on iPhones
Dr. Liang-Wu Cai Kansas State 9/15/2010 Phononic Materials
Dr. Jose Sanchez-Dehesa Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain 5/27/2010 Acoustic Metamaterials
Kate Boudreau Penn State M.S. Student 5/14/2010 Biodiesel Quality based on Acoustic Measurements
Dr. Andrew Barnard and Dr. Amanda Hanford Penn State Applied Research Lab 4/26/2010 Targeted High Output Responder (THOR) Speaker Array
Dr. Raj Singh Ohio State 4/16/2010 Gearbox Noise and Nonlinearities
Dr. Keith Wilson U.S. Army ERDC-CRREL 3/29/2010 Uncertainty in Outdoor Sound Propagation

2009

Speaker Affiliation Date Seminar Topic
Dr. Kirsten Duffy NASA Glenn Research Center 12/16/2009 Damping of Jet Engine Blades
Dr. Scott Morris Notre Dame 11/5/2009 Acoustic Analysis of Ducted Rotors
 
 

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