The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics (TCAA) and National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC) sponsored a student design competition, judged at the 141st ASA conference in Chicago, June 2001. There were 17 posters submitted from 10 different schools. This year's panel of judges included: Mark Holden (Jaffe Holden Acoustics), Gary Madaras (Talaske Group), Ron McKay (McKay Conant Brook), Dawn Schuette (Kirkegaard and Associates), and Leslie Ventsch (Skidmore Owings & Merrill).

From left: Schuette, Madaras, Ventsch and McKay

First Honors ($1000 prize):
* Jessica Newton and Byron Harrison, University of Hartford (Faculty Advisor: Bob Celmer)

Commendations ($500 prize):
* Mona Tamari and Jorge Carbonell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Faculty Advisor: Carl Rosenberg)


* Lance Hayes and Derrick Knight, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Faculty Advisors: Chris Jaffe, Yasushi Shimizu, Rendell Torres)


* Brian Corry and Lucy Williams, University of Kansas (Faculty Advisor: Bob Coffeen)


* Greg Hughes, Ryan O'Halloran, and Jon Peterson, University of Kansas (Faculty Advisor: Bob Coffeen)

Congratulations to the winners! And many thanks to the donors of this year's competition, including: Wenger Corporation, the Newman Student Award Fund, Telex/Electro-Voice and Auralex Acoustics, Inc.

For more detailed images of select 2001 entries, click here.

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