The 2007 Student Design Competition, sponsored by the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics (TCAA) and the Newman Student Award Fund, was judged at the 153rd ASA Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, in June 2007. The project involved the design of a college performance hall and related facilities, primarily for the school's strong opera program. There were 20 entries submitted from a number of different schools. The panel of judges included: Roger Jackson (FFKR Architects), Dana Hougland (Shen Milsom Wilke), Ron McKay (McKay Conant Brooke), Russ Cooper (Jaffe Holden Acoustics) and Russ Olsen (Acoustical Design Group).

The 2007 Awards have been funded by a grant from the Wenger Foundation through the ASA's Newman Student Award Fund. Wenger has generously agreed to fund the awards annually in memory of the firm's founder, Harry Wenger, who was a long-time friend of education in music and in architectural acoustics.

First Honors ($1250 prize):
* Andrew Miller, Megan Hunziker and Matt Pauley from the University of Kansas (Faculty Advisor: Robert Coffeen)

Click here to download the left, center, and right panels of the winning entry (in Adobe PDF format)

Commendations in alphabetical order ($700 prize):
* Rolando de la Cruz, Arthur van der Harten and Joshua Fialkoff from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Faculty Advisors: Paul Calamia and Ning Xiang)

* Pamela Harght, Marshall Hilton and Andrew Thomas from the University of Kansas (Faculty Advisor: Robert Coffeen)

* Benjamin Jados and Ayse Bautz from Illinois Institute of Technology (Faculty Advisor: Ralph Muehleisen)

* Tom LePage, Yun Jing and Xiaohu Chen from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Faculty Advisors: Paul Calamia and Ning Xiang)

* Dorea Ruggles, Nicholas Tranby and Elizabeth Panzer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Faculty Advisors: Paul Calamia and Ning Xiang)

Congratulations to the winners! And thanks to all those who participated in this year's competition!

The 2008 ASA Student Design Competition will be judged at the 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America which takes place in Paris, France, in July 2008. Information regarding the 2008 competition will be available in Fall 2007 by e-mail and on the Newman Fund webpage. Contact Bob Coffeen or Byron Harrison for more information.

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