Volume 4, Number 1, March, 1996 - Noise News International

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the United States of America (INCE/USA) wasestablished in 1971 June as a professional societysensitive to the needs and responsibilities of noisecontrol engineers and dedicated to a leadership rolein applying noise control technology to the benefitof mankind.Interest in international affairs has always been akey concern of INCEIUSA. Section 5 of its ArticlesofIncorporation states: "As interest in noise controlengineering develops in other parts of the world, theInstitute shall encourage and participate in the establishmentof national institutes in other countriesleading to an eventual federation of institutes ofnoise control engineering." INCEIUSA played amajor role in the establishment in 1974 October ofthe International Institute of Noise Control Engineering(I-INCE). With the formation of InternationalINCE, responsibility for organizing theINTER-NOISE series of international congresseswas transferred by the Board of Directors ofINCEIUSA to the new organization.In those years that an INTER-NOISE Congressis held outside the USA, INCEIUSA sponsors anational conference on noise control engineering.The first NOISE-CON was held in Washington,D.C., in 1973 October. Thirteen NOISE-CONs havebeen held to date. The next one is scheduled for theend of 1996 September, in Bellevue, Washington,USA. The papers presented at a NOISE-CON coverall aspects of noise control engineering.INCEIUSA currently has almost 1200 membersand associates. Noise Control Engineering Journal(NCE]) is published bimonthly with articles coveringall aspects of noise control engineering. Theother periodical of INCEfUSA is this news magazinewhich is published jointly with InternationalINCE. The first issue of the newsletter Noise/Newsappeared in 1972 January. In 1993 March, the firstissue of this news magazine was published as aconsolidation of Noise/News and the I-INCE Newsletter.Production of this news magazine is coordinatedby the Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers (IEEE).From the Institute's inception, its members haveworked to create an organization dedicated to maintaininga high level of professionalism in its specializedfield through certification of engineeringcompetence, through its popularization of the latestadvances in language accessible by the general public,and through its conferences and publications.The Large Engineering SocietiesThe members of these organizations, who mayormay not identify themselves as acousticians or noisecontrol engineers, are primarily engineers in one ofthe "classical" disciplines (i.e., mechanical, electri-cal, civil, etc.) with interests in acoustics and noisecontrol.The first of the large engineering societies toform its own specialty group in a sub-field of acousticswas the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), anorganization which merged with the American Instituteof Electrical Engineers (AlEE) in 1963, and isnow known as the Institute ofElectrical and ElectronicsEngineers (IEEE). The IRE had a numberof professional groups covering various aspects ofradio engineering. The first group to be formed (in1949) was the Professional Group on Audio (PGA)which advertised itself as a "group of members ofthe IRE devoted to the advancement of audio technology."Audiophiles without academic training hadno more interest in joining the IRE than they had injoining the Acoustical Society of America. Hence,the Audio Engineering Society flourished immediatelyafter its founding in 1951, while growth of thePGA was modest. By the time of the merger of theIRE with the AlEE, the PGA was almost defunct.What saved it was a forced consolidation with theIRE's standards committee on audio and electroacoustics.The surviving name, IEEE Group on Audioand Electroacoustics (G-AE), reflected the increasingimportance of electroacoustic transducers inaudio and high fidelity sound reproduction. But bythe middle of the decade of the 1960s, it was clearto the G-AE Administrative Committee that somethingwould have to be done to rejuvenate the groupor it would die.In 1965, Cooley and Tukey published a paper inMathematics ofComputation on their rediscovery ofthe Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). There were thoseon the G-AE Administrative Committee who saw abright future for audio and electroacoustics with theadvent of the FFT. In 1966, the G-AE cosponsoreda special workshop (with standing room only) at thespring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Americain Boston which was entitled: Uses ofPower SpectrumAnalysis. The papers presented at this workshopwere published in the first special issue of theIEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacousticsin 1967. The following year (1968), the G-AE sponsoredthe first of four Arden House Workshops onthe FFT and digital signal processing.In 1970, the IEEE Board instituted a reorganizationof IEEE technical activities. Semi-autonomoussocieties were created within the IEEE structurefrom the existing groups. By the end of 1975, whathad been the IEEE Group on Audio and Electroacousticshad been transformed into the IEEE Societyon Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. The eraof explosive growth began. The final step in thetransformation was completed in 1990 when acousticsand speech were dropped from its name. With10Noise/News International1996 March
23,000 memberstoday, the IEEE Society on SignalProcessing is the fourth largest of the 37 semiautonomoussocietieswithinthe IEEE.The applicationof digital signal processing techniques to thefield of noisecontrolengineeringwhichhad spurredthe work of the G-AE in the late 1960s, as well asmostacousticalapplications, are subjectsof interestto the IEEE Society on Signal Processing today.TheAmerican Society ofMechanical Engineers(ASME) is an organization with 125,000members.ASMEhas 38divisionswhichareorganizedin eightgroups. The Management Division is the largestwith roughly a quarter of all ASME members. TheNoise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD) isone of the smallest with 695 members having primaryinterestin noiseand 693 with secondaryinterestin noise. Each division is headed by its ownchairman and executive committee, and has anumberof technicalcommitteeswhichcarry out thework of planning meeting programs and reviewingpapers.NCADwasestablishedin 1980,firstasanationalgroup,andthen as a full-fledgeddivision.The homefor its publications is the ASME Journal of Vibrationsand Acoustics. Its principalconferenceactivityis the ASME International MechanicalEngineeringCongressandExposition(IMECE), formerlyknownas the Winter Annual Meeting as it is held duringNovemberof the year,just before the Thanksgivingholiday.One mayjoin the ASMEwithminimalformality.In order to become a member, one needs to applyand obtain letters of recommendation, some ofwhich shouldbe from ASME members. A memberhas the opportunity to indicate an interest in threetechnical divisions (out of 38) when dues are paid.The member is then placed on the mailing lists forthese divisions. There are no other formalities foraffiliatingwith a particulardivision. Includedin theASME dues are subscriptions to the monthly MechanicalEngineering magazine and ASME News,plus subscriptions to the newsletters of the threedivisions selected by the member. Newsletters appeartwo to fourtimesa year and typicallyconsistofsix pages of division news items. The ASME publishesmore than a dozen archivaljournals, as wellas monographs and books, all at extra cost to themember. The ASMEorganizesmorethantwodozenmajor conferenceseach year.Withinthe ASME organization, NCADdoes nothave a unique charter in the fields of noise controland acoustics. The chartersof at least 20 of ASME's38 divisionsindicate some concern with noise controlin the broad sense. Severaldivisionshave longestablishedcommittees which are concerned withacoustics and vibration. The Applied MechanicsDivision, which is oriented towards theoreticalanalyses and dominatedby academics, has a shockand vibration committee. The Design EngineeringDivision, which has more of an applications orientationand more of an industrial membership, has avibration and sound committee. This committee isresponsible for the ASME Vibrations Conferences.Noise and vibration-related committees are to befound also in other ASMEdivisions: Fluid Dynamics,Gas Turbines, Gears, Safety, Manufacturing,and Piping and PressureVessels.The ASME procedure for reviewing papers andmanuscripts ensures thequality of thepapers presentedandpublished intheirjournals. Anindividualrespondingto a call for papers is usually requested to submit anabstract, on the basis of which a review committeejudgestheprobable suitability of thepaperfortheconferenceinquestion. Theauthor istheninvited tosubmita full manuscript which issubjected toreview bytwoorthree peers. Depending upon thereviewer's recommendations,anaccepted paper (revised asmayberequestedby thereview committee) maythenbe published eitherin an archival journal, or in theform of a preprint only,or in Mechanical Engineering. In mostcases, thefinalpreprinted version of thepapermustbeavailable beforethe paperis accepted for oralpresentation at a conference.The ASME publication process tends to be extendedanddrawn out; ittypically takes between 12and18 months from first offer to publication. Preprints ofindividual papers aresold atconferences; sets ofpapersarecollected intomonographs which aresoldin lieuofconference proceedings.The ASME clearly constitutes a natural "home"for mechanicalengineers- includingthosewithaninterestin noise controland related topics.Its meetingsprovide a mechanicalengineer with an opportunitytomeet other engineerswith relatedinterests.But the ASME paper-publication process is slow,and mostof the paperspresentedare of an academicnature. Controversial papers on "hot" topics mayfind their way into unpublished panel discussions,but rarely into print.The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)with a total membership of 66,000 covers automotiveengineering in its broadest sense; its scope includesaerospace engineering. The SAE does nothave a structure which parallels that of the ASME,its activities related to acoustics and noise controlbeing concentrated in two conferences. The InternationalSAECongressheldannuallyinDetroitwithtens of thousands of participants usually has a fewpapers on noise and vibration control presented byoverseas authors who are attending the congress.The principal SAE activity of interest here is theNoise and Vibration Conferenceheld biannually inTraverseCity, Michigan.1996 MarchNoise/News International 11
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