Prof. Leonessa (Alex) won a $480,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for research effort to help bring back the voice of stroke patients and others who have suffered paralysis of the vocal folds through electrical stimulation. Alex plans to develop a portable, noninvasive device that can be adjusted to each patient.
Professor Ricardo Buridisso completes his experimental testing to help validate modelling of sonic boom propagation in buildings. The video of the sonic boom simulation can be found here.
Ph.D. student Ryan Harne won 1st prize for his poster and presentation at the Spring 2011 NC-ASA meeting [North Carolina chapter of the Acoustical Society of America]. Ryan's poster was entitled "Shape optimization of an acoustic horn in the presence of mean, compressible flow".
