The responsibility of engineering is to serve society and improve the quality of life. In support of these goals, the National Academy of Engineering celebrates and promotes the engineering profession in all its diversity, from the variety of engineering disciplines and applications to the men, ...

It is my honor and great personal pleasure to introduce readers of The Bridge to this issue devoted to noise control engineering. In 2007 the subject was first covered in The Bridge during the early stages of an NAE con­sensus study that led to the report Tech­nology for a Quieter America (...

The NAE and INCE Foundation have engaged the noise control engineering community to advance efforts to improve noise in the United States.

The year 2020 marks 15 years since kick-off of the Technology for a ­Quieter America (TQA) project (figure 1), a joint effort of the National Academy of ...

Noise control engineering epitomizes the engineering profession since it clearly and directly pertains to technology and the public.

Noise is often an unavoidable and ubiquitous byproduct of many systems and processes, and the more complex the system, the more difficult it is to accurately ...

Continued research and technical advances are needed to address both persistent and novel concerns in transportation-related noise.

Soundscape is the term for the acoustic environment perceived by humans in context. The human-made portion of the outdoor soundscape is largely dominated by ...

Regularly updated national and international
noise standards ensure consistency and accuracy
among products.

Voluntary noise standards, which are developed by consensus-based standards organizations, define reliable and reproducible procedures to ensure that manufacturers (i) design their ...

Advances are needed to enhance the accuracy and application of acoustic source localization techniques.

Acoustic source localization technology is used to determine the location(s) of a sound source or multiple sources in an environment by processing acoustic signals measured at a number of ...

Numerous resources are available to provide guidance for engineers and others in addressing noise concerns.

Human-made noise is ubiquitous in daily life, from the background hum of the computer or refrigerator to the drone of leafblowers, the passing roar of an overhead airplane, or the beeping ...

Advantages of nuclear batteries include low-enriched fuel, simple design, mass manufacturing, minimal site preparation, and semiautonomous fleet operation.

“Experts would be mobilized to apply atomic energy to the needs of agriculture, medicine, and other peaceful activities. A ...

An Interview with . . .

Ken Goldberg, Engineering Professor and Artist, UC Berkeley

RON LATANISION (RML): We’re delighted you’re joining us today, Ken. I think this will be our first interview with an artist-engineer.

KEN GOLDBERG: It’s a pleasure to talk with you and Cameron!

The November 1892 meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was held in New York City in the cold and snowy days following Thanksgiving. There was prosaic fare like the report from a committee on flange standardization and a talk on the experimental determination of the heat generated ...