Tuesday, May 16
1:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Free
Attention Students and Young Professionals!
Students and young professionals, this is your opportunity to spend 30 minutes with an industry executive where you can ask your most pressing questions in a fun and informal format.
Registration is required. Capacity is limited, so sign up today.
Register by emailing Melissa Jena.
Tuesday, May 16
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Price: $25 per person
Experience innovative acoustical design at two of the newest constructed buildings on the Grand Rapids Community College campus. The guided tour of the Music Building includes a description of the acoustical and noise control engineering solutions and performance demonstrations of multiple spaces. This is followed by a reception under the colorful skycone at the Secchia Piazza.
Registration must be complete by April 15.
Tour is limited to 75 people.
Sign up on the SAE registration page.
Tuesday, May 16
6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Price: $25 per person
Relax. Unwind. Network.
What better way to mingle with your colleagues than at our casual evening pub crawl? Join us for our walking brewery tour, where we’ll make stops at local breweries – The BOB, Zs Bar, Barrio Tacos, and Flanagan's – in Grand Rapids. We will finish up the evening with snacks and prizes at Uccello's.
A separate registration is required for this networking event. To register, sign up during the event registration process. Ticket price is $25.00, which covers a Pub Crawl t-shirt, food, and prizes at the end of the night.
Tuesday, May 17
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Price: $0
Sponsored by National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC)
This is your chance to meet with professional noise control engineers to discuss career choices, learn more about the companies or organizations they work for (or own), and understand what they are looking for in new employees.
Women in Noise Control Engineering Breakfast
Tuesday, May 17
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Price: $0
Women NOISE-CON 2022 attendees, students and professionals are welcome to attend. While the demographics in engineering is slowing changing for the better, the number of women in noise control engineering is much lower than we desire. This is a change to get together with other women working in noise control engineering or related fields, enjoy lunch and chat about challenges and opportunities.
Sunday, May 14
Fundamentals of Vibration and Sound
Instructor: Steven A Hambric, President, Hambric Acoustics
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Price: $800 per person
Overview: Have you been measuring or simulating vibration and sound without really having learned the fundamentals? I will teach you the basics with a minimum of math and plenty of computational and experimental practical examples and show you that vibration and sound concepts can be quite simple and understandable. Next, I’ll give an overview of numerical methods used to solve vibroacoustic problems and their frequency ranges of applicability.
Sunday, May 14
Low-Frequency Industrial Noise in Residential Communities
Instructor: David Nelson, President and Principal Consultant, Nelson Acoustics
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Price: $400 per person
Overview: A great deal of effort has been invested since the 1950s into forecasting potential residential annoyance from various noise sources to anticipate, avoid, and/or at least minimize residents’ complaints. An interesting subset of this work relates to low frequency noise (LFN) from industrial noise sources. The literature comprises a range of authors, approaches, and applications covering the experience of several decades, accompanied by repeated warnings about the pitfalls of ignoring low-frequency noise. Many equipment manufacturers provide sufficient engineering information to anticipate LFN problems. Despite this, it is still customary to specify environmental noise only using A-weighted sound pressure levels, if at all. Several approaches to assessing low frequency noise will be drawn from the literature and some European standards, with a particular emphasis on those that facilitate noise control planning and design and/or seek to forecast the degree of community reaction. The objective of the seminar is to 1) equip INCE members to anticipate, assess, and avoid LFN problems, 2) provide a common framework for study of community responses to LFN, and 3) define meaningful LFN criteria to supplement A-weighted criteria as appropriate.
Sunday, May 14
Acoustical Enclosures
Instructors: David Herrin, Professor; Director, Vibro-Acoustics Consortium, University of Kentucky; David Copley, Sr. Engrg. Specialist – Acoustics, Global Sound & Cooling | Caterpillar Inc.
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Price: $800 per person
Overview: Enclosures are commonly used to contain and control noise, among other purposes. This course will cover the theory and practical implications of acoustical enclosures, along with means to predict and assess the performance of enclosures. Some of the topics that will be covered include enclosure theory, full and partial enclosures, acoustical materials, ventilation treatments, leakage and seals, analysis via simulation and test, basic design guidance and validation.
Sunday, May 14
Active Noise Control
Instructor: Yangfan Liu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Price: $400 per person
Overview: The history of active sound and vibration control technology can be dated back to its first documented attempt in the 1930s. Wave theory-based research on active control of sound and vibration started in 1950s. It first became a popular research area in 1990s, during that period, enormous studies were carried out, many effective active control signal processing algorithms were developed, and implementations were successful in a wide range of engineering applications, such as the control of noise in automobiles, aircraft, buildings, industrial environments, etc. After a one-decade “cooled-down” period, active sound and vibration control have recently reclaimed its research popularity. This is not only driven by the even wider range of application and commercialization potentials of this technology brought by the recent rocketing in the computing power of signal processing hardware together with its cost drop, but also by the unprecedented potential research outcomes if the recent research breakthroughs in other widely studied areas, such as artificial intelligence, computing technology, virtual reality, smart systems, perception-based engineering, etc., can find their ways in benefiting active control of sound and vibration.
This half-day short course introduces the fundamental concepts and theories related to active noise and vibration control, basic algorithms, as well as various typical applications of this technology.
Sunday, May 14
Overview of Acoustic and Vibration Simulation Methods
Instructors: Chad Musser, Director, Vibro-Acoustics Solution, ESI Group; Bryce Gardner, Lead Acoustic Scientist, ESI Group; Lucas Alimonti, ESI Group; Abderrazak Mejdi, ESI Group
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Price: $800 per person (may increase with lunch)
Overview: Numerical Simulation has become an accepted and essential part of interior and exterior acoustics and vibration design for a range of industries and products and especially for the vehicle industry in order to allow effective early design and to complement and reduce the amount of testing involved in product development. Well-established tools and modeling practices exist for several different simulation methods each of which has its own particular advantages and limitations based on frequency range, modeling objectives, and speed versus accuracy tradeoff and computer resource required. This full-day course is intended to offer to the test engineer, CAE NVH simulation engineer or anyone wishing to have a deeper understanding of one or more of the presented analysis methods an introduction to these different modeling techniques with the goal of improving understanding of the best applications to current state-of-the art vehicle acoustic and vibration design processes. The team of instructors, representing decades of expertise and experience in these methods and their industrial use, will present background, theory, practical application examples and discussion of several of the current state-of-art analysis useful methods listed in the agenda.
Thursday, May 18
Automotive Sound Package Materials
Instructor: Pranab Saha, Principal Consultant/Kolano and Saha Engineers, Inc.
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Price: $400 per person
Overview: The one-day short course provides an understanding of different sound package materials that are used in vehicles (including passenger vehicles, heavy trucks, and off highway vehicles) and how they reduce the noise in vehicles. The course defines three different types of acoustical materials, explains their differences, discusses the factors that are critical for improving the performance of these materials, and discusses different test methods to evaluate the performance of them. This short course is an introductory course and designed to make participants familiar with sound package materials from the application viewpoint.
Attendees will learn: