Mechanical Shock Consulting Joins As New ASA Standards Member
We’re delighted to announce Mechanical Shock Consulting has joined ASA Standards as a new organizational member. Mechanical Shock Consulting, founded by Vesta Bateman, PhD, consults with various organizations on pyroshock/ballistic shock measurements, data acquisition and data analyses. Dr. Bateman is a mechanical shock specialist and retired from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM after twenty-seven years of service. She was the Facility Leader for the Mechanical Shock Laboratory at Sandia National Laboratories where she was responsible for a wide spectrum of mechanical shock testing including drop table, Hopkinson bar, horizontal pneumatic actuator, rocket rail, live pyroshock and pyroshock simulation shock tests. Dr. Bateman, as part of the company’s ASA Standards […]
Natus Medical Inc. Joins As New ASA Standards Member
We’re very excited to announce Natus Medical Incorporated (Natus) has joined ASA Standards as a new organizational member. Natus, based in Middleton, WI, with offices across the globe, offers medical equipment, software, supplies and services for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of impairments and disorders affecting the brain, neural pathways and eight sensory nervous systems. Natus’s comprehensive suite of healthcare-based products and services includes hearing assessment and screening, plus modular hearing aid fitting systems. Natus’s Dave Carpenter, as part of the company’s ASA Standards membership, will serve on ASC S3, Bioacoustics, with William J. Murphy as Chair and with Todd A. Ricketts as Vice Chair. Mr. Carpenter also will serve […]
Threshold Acoustics’ Brandon Cudequest to Serve as New Chair of ASA Standards S12 Committee Working Group 18
We’re very excited to announce Brandon W. Cudequest, Senior Consultant with Threshold Acoustics (an ASA Standards Member organization), has agreed to serve as the new Chair of ASA Standards Working Group (WG) 18 with our ASC S12 Committee (Noise). Under Brandon’s leadership, WG18’s continued scope is to develop a method for rating the noise encountered in various types of rooms in terms of its effect upon people by means of: a weighting network and a computational procedure to account for temporal pattern of the noise and the need for tone correction as appropriate. WG18 also is responsible for this published ASA standard: ASA/ANSI S12.2-2019 – Criteria for Evaluating Room Noise […]
Michigan Technological University Joins As New ASA Standards Member
We’re thrilled to announce Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) has joined ASA Standards as a new organizational Member. Chad M. Walber, Ph.D., Professor of Practice, Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics with Michigan Tech, will serve as ASA Standards primary voting representative. Dr. Walber’s areas of interest include: Sensors and Instrumentation; Digital Signal Processing; Metrology; and Piezoelectrics. His research interests include Dynamic Systems Testing, Sound and Vibration, Additive Manufacturing. With ASA Standards, the Michigan Tech team will serve on our Accredited Standards Committee S1 (Acoustics), on which Dr. Walber currently serves as Vice Chair, and on ISO/TAG TC 108 (Mechanical Vibration and Shock) and IEC/TAG TC 29 (Electroacoustics). Michigan Tech faculty and students […]
U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Joins As New ASA Standards Member
We’re delighted to announce the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has joined ASA Standards as a new organizational Member. The BOEM’s mission is to manage development of “U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy and mineral resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.” The BOEM, established in 2010 within the U.S. Department of the Interior, is responsible for stewardship of U.S. OCS energy and mineral resources, plus protecting the environment that the development of those resources may impact. One key part of the BOEM is its Center for Marine Acoustics (CMA), launched in 2020, to strengthen the Bureau’s role in managing and understanding underwater sound. With ASA Standards, […]