Student Paper Competition (Best Paper) Award

ASME Unit:	Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD)
Date Established:	1994
Achievement:	Best Student Paper presented at the IMECE
Limitations:	Students must be BS/MS level
Nomination Deadline:	9/1
Form of Award:	$1000.00
Frequency of Award:	Annual
Administrative:	NCA Division
Level of Award:	Division
Selected By:	Executive Committee (Panel)
Selecting Process:	Review of paper and presentation. There generally is not just a single award given, but multiple acknowledgements with a tiered distribution of travel funds provided by the Executive Committee.
Funding:	Division's Custodial Account
Date Created:	10/18/2000

2019	Chang Liu, Northern University
2018	Daming Chen, University of Maryland
2017	No award (no submittals)
2016	Plinio Pinto "Development and Validation of an in-situ Utility pole Model for Vibration Based Non-Destructive Testing"
2015	Philip Feurtado "Experimental analysis of vibration and radiated sound power reduction using an array of acoustic black hole"
2014	Xiujuan Zhang "Semi-Dirac points in phononic crystals" (IMECE2014-37421)
2013	Brian Bernard "Energy Absorption in a 1D Array of Axially Aligned Pendulums with Linear Torsional Coupling."
2012	Adrian Harwood "Numerical Evaluation of the Compact Green'/s Function for the Solution of Acoustic Flows."
2011	Dion Antao, "Experimental and Numerical Characterization of an Orifice type Cryogenic Pulse Tube Refrigerator" (IMECE2011-65027)
2010	Kyle R. Wilt, "Mechanical Design Implications on Power Transfer through Thick Metallic Barriers using Piezoelectric Transducers" (IMECE2010 -38671)
2009	Na Zhu, "Track and Trace Multiple Incoherent Sound Sources in 3D Space in Real Time"
2008	Krista Michalis, "Prediction and Modification of Broadband Interior Noise in Enclosures Using Energy-Intensity BEM and Absorption Scaling"
1999	Kesho Leach, Sean F. Wu
1998	Patricia L. Driesch
1997	Corrie J. Derenburger
1996	Michael G. McAleenan
1995	Donna Rudge