Zane Rusk was awarded a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering at May 2024 commencement with his family in attendance! Congratulations, Dr. Rusk!
Fernando del Solar, Ph.D in Acoustics ’22, presented a poster on a portion of his dissertation work at the Institute of Acoustics Auditorium Acoustics conference in Athens Greece on September 29, 2023. The title of his poster was Single-value frequency-average measures of early decay time and clarity index to predict reverberance and clarity.
SPRALites Olivia Heui Young Park and Zane Rusk tour the new Engineering Collaboration for Research and Education (ECoRE) building on PSU’s campus! The building is currently under construction and will be the new home of the Acoustics Program and the Center for Acoustics and Vibration (CAV) anechoic chamber and reverberation suite.
Olivia Heui Young Park, Ph.D. student in Acoustics, presented her research at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Nashville in December 2022 and received a first place student paper award in Architectural Acoustics! Congratulations, Olivia!
Park, O. H. Y., Vigeant, M.C., and Dittberner, A. (2022). “Assessing cognitive effects of transportation noise on office workers with electroencephalography and performance.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152:A210 [Best Student Paper Award, 1st, Architectural Acoustics]
Zane Rusk, Ph.D. Candidate in Architectural Engineering, presented an invited paper at the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) in Gyeongju, Korea in October 2022 and did an excellent job!
Rusk, Z.* and Vigeant, M.C. (2022). “Auralization of a virtual living room sound system using measured
spatial room impulse responses.” 24th International Congress on Acoustics, Gyeongju, Korea [Invited]
Congratulations Fernando on your graduation! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors!
Fernando with his wife Natalia and his daughter Helena (3).
Before the ceremony During the ceremony
Olivia Heui Young Park, Ph.D. student in SPRAL in the Graduate Program in Acoustics (above), and Jonathan Broyles, SPRAL alumnus and Ph.D. Candidate in Architectural Engineering (below sitting on table), worked with fellow graduate students in the Acoustics Program, Emma Shaw, Jack Case, and Abby Wilson, in the Acoustics program to expose 24 high school students to the fundamentals of acoustics and room acoustics this summer. The high school students participated in several acoustic demos, followed by binaural audio demos and room acoustic demos in the AURAS facility. The acoustics outreach session was part of a 1-week summer camp, AEspiring Architectural Engineering camp, for high school students organized by Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering. The camp consisted of various sessions with different hands-on aspects of architectural engineering, with a final group project where the students designed and built a structure or building of their choosing. Olivia Park was the lead organizer of the acoustics portion of the camp.
Additional pictures of the acoustics session can be found here.
Zane Rusk, SPRAL member and Ph.D. candidate in Architectural Engineering, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar finalist for his application to study in Finland. Congratulations, Zane on this recognition of your strong fellowship application materials!
Fernando’s first full-length, peer-reviewed journal article was just published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America‘s January 2022 issue! Congratulations on all of your hard work being recognized in this manner!
del Solar Dorrego, F.* and Vigeant, M.C. (2022). “A study of the just noticeable difference of early decay time for symphonic halls.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 151:80-94
