Associate Professor of Acoustics & Architectural Engineering
mcv3@psu.edu
Dr. Michelle Vigeant-Haas is an associate professor in the Graduate Program in Acoustics at Penn State, where she also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Architectural Engineering. She leads the Sound Perception and Room Acoustics Laboratory (SPRAL), where her research is focused on linking quantitative measures to human perception of sound. Vigeant-Haas also studies the effects of noise on stress levels, task performance, and annoyance. The majority of her research studies are conducted in a dedicated, 3D virtual sound reproduction laboratory named the AUralization and Reproduction of Acoustic Sound-fields (AURAS) facility, which is housed in an anechoic chamber. Vigeant-Haas received the 2024 Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award, an NSF CAREER Award and a 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award. She is actively involved with the Acoustical Society of America and will serve as the chair for the Technical Committee on Noise starting June 2024 through May 2027. She previously served as an elected member of ASA’s Executive Council from 2017 to 2020. Prior to joining Penn State in 2012, Vigeant-Haas was an assistant professor at the University of Hartford in the Mechanical Engineering Department within the undergraduate acoustics concentration for 4.5 years. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering, focusing on Architectural Acoustics, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , and she received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering Co-op from the University of Alberta.