ISEF – ASA Award Winners through the years

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) began participating at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 1978 in order to promote acoustics and recognize the accomplishments of high-school students. ASA’s long-time participation in the ISEF recognizes the importance of promoting STEM education and generating interest in acoustics among all students.

The ASA awards four finalists with cash prizes for themselves, their schools, and their mentors as well as financial support to attend the next ASA meeting. These meetings offer opportunities for students and young researchers as well as experienced acousticians to share information.

Current Awards Offered

First Award of $1,500 and free registration for the next ASA Meeting. The student’s school will be awarded $200, and mentor awarded $500.
Second Award of $1000 and free registration for the next ASA Meeting. The student’s school will be awarded $100 and mentor awarded $250.
Third Award of $600.00 and free registration for the next ASA Meeting. The student’s mentor will be awarded $150. ASA Meeting registration fees waived.
Honorable Mention receives free registration for the next ASA Meeting.

Below are winners of the ASA awards through the years. Click the titles in blue to read the project abstract.

2023 – Dallas, Texas USA

ASA ISEF judging team: Peter Assmann (Chair), Christopher Ainley, Satwik Dutta, Nursadul Mamun, and Abbey Thomas

First Award: Shodai Tanaka, A Mathematical Study About the Sustaining Phenomenon of Overtone in Flageolet Harmonics on Bowed String Instruments
Second Award: Anton Bulancea, Developing a New Acoustic Levitation Platform Design for Non-Contact Handling in Electronics Assembly
Third Award: Michelle Hua, 3D Acoustic Simulation and Optimization Algorithms for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Delivered With Robotic Systems
Honorable Mention: Anu Iyer, VAST (Voice and Spiral Tool): A Novel Multimodal Machine Learning Method To Detect Parkinson’s Disease and Assess Severity

2022 – Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

ASA ISEF judging team: Laurie Heller (Chair), Andy Chung, Robert Smith, Jeffrey Vipperman

First Award: Amara Orth, Secret Sounds of Bees: Analysis of Honey Bee Vibroacoustics Using Hidden Markov Models
Second Award: Chinmayi Ramasubramanian, Averting Human-Elephant Conflict Using Machine Learning on Elephant Vocalizations
Third Award: Gwyneth Liu, Novel Model of an Adaptive Wave Energy Converter With Spectral Analysis-Based Sea State Classification
Honorable Mention: Anu Iyer, Systematic Parkinson Audio Recognition Construct (SPARC): A Novel Approach Implementing a Machine Learning Method To Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease Using Voice Features

2021 – Virtual

ASA ISEF judging team: Laurie Heller (Chair) Inder Makin, Xin Luo, and Thomas Kaufmann

First Award: Wanjia Fu, Why Do Beginners Produce Noise Instead of Music When They Play Musical Instruments? —Taking Erhu for Example
Second Award: Eugene Choi, Irfan Nafi, and Raffu Khondaker, SoundScape: Real-Time 3D Sound Localization and Classification with Sensory Substitution for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Third Award: Govardhan Poondi and John Rho, A Non-Invasive Ear-EEG Hearing Aid to Address the Cocktail Party Problem via Cloud-Based Deep Learning
Honorable Mention: Chinmayi Ramasubramanian, Diagnosing the Stage of COVID-19 using Machine Learning on Breath Sounds

2019 – Phoenix, AZ

ASA ISEF judging team: Inder Makin (Chair), Julie Liss, Xin Luo, and Thomas Kaufmann

First Award: Ayana Miyazaki, Haruka Hinami, and Yui Tamada, Novel Subtle Acoustic Communication: Successful Elucidation of the Cryptic Ecology of Runner Plant Bugs (Hallodapus spp.) with Emphasis on Their Stridulatory Mechanisms
Second Award: Joonyoung Lee and Mincheol Park, SHOWPAM: System of High-efficiency Ocean Wave Power with Acoustic Metamaterial
- “Optimize ultrasound condition for water treatment by coiled-up space metamaterial.” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, doi:10.1121/2.0001123.
Third Award: Sauhaarda Chowdhuri, PhonoNet: Deep Learning for Raga Identification in Indian Classical Music
- “PhonoNet: Multi-stage deep learning for raga preservation in hindustani classical music.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, doi:10.1121/1.5137236.
Honorable Mention: E’van Relle Matic Tongol, Neil David Cortez Cayanan, and Neil David Cortez Cayanan, Hibla: An Alternative Sound Absorption Material
- “Hibla: Acoustic Fiber.” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, doi:10.1121/2.0001264.

2018 – Pittsburgh, PA

ASA ISEF judging team: Jeffrey Vipperman (Chair), Jeff Babich, and Laurie Heller

First Award: Anwesha Mukherjee, A Novel Approach to Recognize Emotion from Speech Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Aid Social Interaction of Kids with Autism
Second Award: Sharmi Shah, Speech Intelligibility Analysis of Sound-Modulated Laser Signal Countermeasures
Third Award: Gabrielle Liu, Preventing Domestic Violence Using Emotion Recognition in Speech
Honorable Mention: Rohan Ahluwalia, A Fully Functional Closed- Loop System Using Ultrasound Imaging to Automatically Detect Lipohypertrophy in People with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes

2017 – Los Angeles, CA

ASA ISEF judging team: Roman Vinokur and Marshall Long (Chair)

First Award: Abraham Riedel-Mishaan, Ryan Folz, and Praharshasai Paladugu, Development of 3D-printed Electronic Stethoscope and Open-Source Android-Based Platform with Automated Diagnosis of Cardiac Condition
Second Award: Lucas Mayhew, An Investigation of Optimal Rural Building Designs for All Earthquake Zones of Turkey
Honorable Mention: Aya Nobe, Norika Kondo, and Sachiko Fukuzawa, Water Surface Vibration Signals Utilized by the Japanese Water Strider, Aquarius elongatus, to Locate Prey and Mate
Honorable Mention: William Broomhead, Impact the Force: Effects of Insoles on Impact Force for Gymnasts
Honorable Mention: Joseph Sartini, Real-Time Sound Localization Using a Microphone Array

2016 – Phoenix, AZ

ASA ISEF judging team: Inder Makin (Chair), Julie Liss, Paul Sakion, and Bruce Towe

First Award: Kim Dae Hyun, Generation of Beat Sound of Korean Bell with a Bicycle Rim
Second Award: Adrian Lenkeit and Jan Schafers, Acoustic Microfluidics with Tiny Droplets
Honorable Mention: Mukund Venkatakrishnan, Development of the First Ever Low-Cost Open-Source Hearing Test and Hearing Aid
Honorable Mention: Yiwei Song, A Feasible Solution to High Frequency Loss Based on Transposing Fundamental Frequency
Honorable Mention: Marie-Anne Irene de Gier and Bram Janssen, The Wobble: A Sustainable Noise Barrier Consisting of Noise Absorbing Materials and a Revolutionary Shape

2015 – Pittsburgh, PA

First Award: Robert Henning, The Exchange iMproving Unit: An Auditory Device for Directional Filtering
Second Award: Mukund Venkatakrishnan, Development of a Ultra Low-Cost Integrated Audiometer and Hearing Aid
Honorable Mention: Alexandra Zoe Garth, Stay Tuned! Comparing the Effects of Long and Short-Term Auditory Stimulation for Increasing the Sensitivity of a Person’s Hearing
Honorable Mention: Ruochen Hao, Physical Simulation Based on Bat’s Pinna Structure and Its Deformation Binaural Sound Signal Measurement Experiment of Greater Horseshoe Bat
Honorable Mention: Vasily Antonovich Tremsin, Can I See It If I Cannot Hear It? Real-Time Visualization of Incoming Sound for People with Hearing Disabilities or Ear Obstruction

2014 – Los Angeles, CA

First Award: Akanksh Chaudhary and Marcelo Ferrari, The Physiological Effects of Noise Pollution on the Cardiovascular System of D. melanogaster
Second Award: Shelby Yuan, Ultrasound-responsive Nanoparticles for Neurotherapeutic Delivery

2013 – Phoenix, AZ

ASA ISEF judging team: Inder Makin (Chair), Bruce Towe, and Yi Zhou

First Award: Myles Mitchell, Misbehaving Waves: The SurReal Thing
Second Award: Ivan Seleznov, An “EXTRA” Sense: Ultrasound Glove Assisting Spatial Orientation of the Visually Impaired
Honorable Mention: Akshat Boobna, Finding Best Speaker Position Using New Algorithms to Determine Acoustic Properties of a Room
Honorable Mention: Tomohiko Sato and Takahiro Yomono, ‘V-shaped Wave’ Generated by a Moving Object: Analyses and Experiments on Capillary Gravity Waves

2012 – Pittsburgh, PA

ASA ISEF judging team: Richard Stern, Matthew Poese, and Frederick Poese

First Award: Savanah Frisk, Who Do You Listen To? An Exploration on the Effects of Age and Gender on Listening Comprehension
Second Award: Hawraa ALQallaf, (BAS) Bracelet Alarm System for the Hearing Impaired Parents
Honorable Mention: Nofoume Ben Ahmed Aly, Alban Teytaud, and Paul Chassagne, Setting Up a Measuring Protocol of the Reverberation Time of a Room to Improve Its Soundscape Quality
Honorable Mention: Bridget Mary Oei, Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) Piezoelectric Generator: A Novel Approach to Harvesting Vibrations from Human Respiration to Power Biological Implant Devices

2011 – Los Angeles, CA

ASA ISEF Judging team: Roman Vinokur, Neil Shaw (Chair), and Steven Martin

First Award: Andrew Beekman Feldman, Acoustic Imaging Using Optimized Beamforming Techniques
Second Award: Kelles Diane Gordge, Critical Point of View: A System for in vivo Monitoring of Lung Sounds in Critical Care Patients
Honorable Mention: Ryan Kyong-Doc Chung, Note to Self: A Transcriptional Study of Audio Files Using Fourier Transformation and New Applications
Honorable Mention: Konstantin Slavnov and Ilya S. Shoshin, Sound Wave Propagation: 3D Premises Model
Honorable Mention: Alexander Nathan Finney, Precision Location of Acoustic Sources

2010 – San Jose, CA

ASA ISEF judging team: Nick Maltsev (Chair), Robert Showen and Jie Sun

First Award: Marian Joan Bechtel, Developing a process for seismo-acoustic imaging applied to humanitarian demining
Second Award: David C. Liu, Continual adaptation of acoustic models for domain-specific speech recognition
Honorable Mention: Alexander M. Atkinson, The effect of relative drag on sonic sled velocity
Honorable Mention: Ellen Marie Price, Hidden sounds: Harmonic symmetry of human voices

2009 – Reno, NV

ASA ISEF judging team: W. Patrick Arnott, Katherine McCall, and Timothy Darling

First Award: Jordan D. Zesch and Angad Jolly, Engineering a system to record head related transfer functions of sound from various directions
Second Award: Nicholas M. Christensen, Do you ‘ear Wha’ I ear? II. Lowering voice frequencies in real time to revolutionize hearing assistance technology
Honorable Mention: Skye N. Singleton, Violin or voice… brain food for Alzheimer’s patients
Honorable Mention: Chaneg Torres, Hey, Can you hear me? Using Isobel contour mapping to determine acoustically optimum seating positions in a given classroom

2008 – Atlanta, GA

ASA ISEF judging team: James M. Sabatier (Chair), Alexander, and Zhiqu Lu

First Award: Lyric Elizabeth Gillett, Intensity and Temperature Variance in Sonoluminescence
Second Award: Nicholas Mycroft Christensen, Do You ‘ear Wha’ I ’ear? Redigitizing Voice Signals into Lower Frequencies to Revolutionize Hearing Assistance Technology

2007 – Albuquerque, NM

ASA ISEF judging team: Amy T. Neel and Gregory Kaduchak

First Award: Michael Tyler Wham, Calls in the Wild: Vocalizations of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Second Award: Aman Sarup and Palak Patel, A Novel Method to Measure the Speed of Sound in the Cornea
Honorable Mention: David C. Liu, Acoustic Music Similarity Analysis
Honorable Mention: Douglass Charles Niemann, Manipulating the Diffraction of Traffic Noise

2006 – Indianapolis, IN

ASA ISEF judging team: Diane Kewley-Port (Chair), Robert Port, and Elliott Berger

First Award: Caroline Elizabeth Pietsch, A Novel Approach to the Automatic Recognition of Emotions in Natural Speech
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Blake Sellon, Modeling Auditory Attention by Implementing IHC Movement into Frequency Selectivity of the Inner Ear: A Novel Approach to Stimuli Separation
Honorable Mention: Joseph Anthony Crivello, Acoustic Localization, Detection, and Identification: A System for More Effectively Utilizing Sound as a Tool
Honorable Mention: Courtney Anne Rafes, Tracking the Sound: A Second Year Study on an Ultrasonic Train Wreck Avoidance System

2005 – Phoenix, AZ

ASA ISEF judging team: Duane Reynolds, Michael Dorman, and Charles E. Wallace (Chair)

First Award: Pen-Yuan Hsing and Wei-Kang Huang, Enhanced Cooling of Microelectronic Devices by Using the Thermoacoustic Effect
Honorable Mention: Courtney Anne Rafes, An Ear to the Track: An Ultrasonic Train Wreck Avoidance System
Honorable Mention: Jhe-Rhong Wu, Phylogeneic Analysis of Crickets by Acoustic Behavior and Mitochondrial Sequencing

2004 – Portland, OR

ASA ISEF judging team: Alfred L. Nuttal, Charles Oppenheimer, and Kerrie G. Standlee (Chair)

First Award: Joline Marie Fan, Acoustic Excitation for Enhancing Interfacial Dynamics of Mesobubbles
First Award: Benjamin Alexander Schmidt, ASMART: Static Microphone Arrays for Robot Tracking
Honorable Mention: Alison Karee Slowey, Sound Wave Propagation in Brine Pools
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Brooks Bell, Dampening the Modes of Vibration of Multistory Scale Models Due to Seismic Waves
Honorable Mention: Alexander William Dillard, The Effects of Acoustic Pressure Disturbances on Refraction of Visible Light in Gases

2003 – Cleveland, OH

ASA ISEF judging team: Osman Mawardi, Jack Mowry, David Proctor, and Peter Hoekje

First Award: Sita Chandrika Palepu, Absolute vs Relative Pitch: It’s Music to My Ears! Or Is It to My Mind?
Honorable Mention: Elisabeth Lee Crabtree, The McGurk Effect: Does Age Matter?
Honorable Mention: Samrat A. Amin, Sonoluminescence
Honorable Mention: Ashley Renee Woodall, Physics of Mallet Percussion

2002 – Louisville, KY

ASA ISEF judging team: Christopher Richards, Tim A. Hamel, and Alvin B. Broderson

First Award: Naveen Sinha, Bubble-Based Resonance-Doppler Sensor for Liquid Characterization
Honorable Mention: Yin Nee, Using Hidden Dynamic Models to Predict Pitch in English and Mandarin
Honorable Mention: Bryce Kittinger Campbell, Vortex-Induced Vibrations on Flexible Cylinders
Honorable Mention: Giselle M. Torres, Effect of Vibration and Calcium on Bone Density

2001 – San Jose, CA

ASA ISEF judging team: Doug Corl, Larry Crosby, and Steve Baker.

First Award: Naveen Sinha, Interaction Between Sound and Liquid Crystals
Honorable Mention: Josh Borts and Josep Lallouz, Stop, Look, and Listen
Honorable Mention: Roman Eskue, Star in a Jar
Honorable Mention: Surey Santini and Sheila Gonzalez, Noise: Destructor Sound in School

2000 – Detroit, MI

ASA ISEF judging team: Jose Benki, Nickolas Vlahopoulos, and Sean F. Wu

First Award: Leanne E. Dodge, Toward A Framework For Quantifying Timbre: Phase III
Honorable Mention: George Hwang, Can Acoustical Methods Be Used To Detect And Characterize Corrosion?
Honorable Mention: Glen G. Cheng, VNon-Intrusive Speed Determination By Doppler Shift
Honorable Mention: Naveen N. Sinha, Sound Techniques For Studying Granular Material

1999 – Philadelphia, PA

ASA judging team: Felicia M. Dogget, Richard M. Lec, and Peter A. Lewin (Chair)

First Award: Jeffrey S. Martzall, 2-D Audio Tracking for Aviation Guidance Systems
Second Award: Matthew O. Hart, Design and Construction of a Pseudovision Device for the Sight Impaired
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey J. Ratusznik, Optimization of a Helicopter Blade Using Piezoelectric Ceramic as a Camber Deformer
Honorable Mention: Nikolas D. Bohne, Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy
Honorable Mention: Michelle R. Griffith, Elaine A. Pearson, and Lacey Marae Drouet, Ultrasound: Effective Management Tool in Sheep Production

1998 – Fort Worth, TX

ASA judging team: Deborah Rekart (Chair), David Marsh, Jack Wrightson, and Laurie Bernstein

First Award: Jeffrey S. Martzall, Development of an Audio Tracking System
Honorable Mention:John Danko, Acoustical Analysis and Enhancement of a High School Gymnasium
Honorable Mention: Xing Zeng, Talking Glasses: Ultrasonic Pathfinder for the Visually Impaired
Honorable Mention: Eric F. Koperda, Simulations of Concert-Hall Acoustics by Digital Means

1997 – Louisville, KY

ASA judging team: Ann Clock Eddins (Chair) and David A. Eddins

First Award: Ehren Biglari, Computationally efficient speech coding algorithm
Honorable Mention: Paul Henderson, Equilizer tuning for feedback reduction: Phase III—Digital Fourier analysis
Honorable Mention: Gregory Charvat, Identifying and reducing radio frequency interference by spectrum analysis
Honorable Mention: Melissa Meyer, Music analysis with MIDI and fractal dimensions: Two-year study

1996 – Tucson, AZ

ASA judging team: Kerry P. Green and Knut Nordby

First Award: Ian A. Wann, Effect of editing waveforms of the male mating call on phonotaxis
Honorable Mention: Angela R. Bland, The Beat Goes On
Honorable Mention: Jourdan T. Balkany, Identification of Noise Induced Hearing Loss Using Otoacoustic Emissions
Honorable Mention: Paul D. Henderson, Equalizer Tuning for Feedback Reduction: Two-Year Study.

1995 – Hammilton, Ontario

ASA judging team: A. N. Sinclair (Chair), H. Kunov, S. Shaiman, and R. W. Gatehouse

First Award: Ann Elizabeth Ellis, In Tune with the Future: Automatic Tuner for Stringed Instrument
Second Award: Brian James and Shane Malachy Markey, Developing an Acoustic Detection System to Identify the Factors Affecting Cavitation
Honorable Mention: Ian Andrew Wann
Honorable Mention: Paulo Alexandre Mechado
Honorable Mention: Michael Anthony Hennessy

1994 – Birmingham, AL

ASA judging team: James M. Sabatier (Chair), and Carl K. Frederickson

First Award: Biagio M. Tambasco and Jay Pierrepoint, A Barrier for Sound
Second Award: Maria-Graciela Hollm, Eigenmode Antinodal Thinning in Violin Back Plates
Honorable Mention: Kelly J. Benoit
Honorable Mention: Sarah E. Bowling
Honorable Mention: Micah M. Weller

1993 – Biloxi, MS

ASA judging team: Walton E. McBride, III (Chair) and Bruce Layton

First Award: Brian D. Welch, Computer Noise Cancellation for Automobile Exhaust
Second Award: Kurt A. Franke, Reconstruction of Amplitude Hologram
Honorable Mention: Joseph P. Salyards, II, CFC-Free Refrigeration: Vortex and Thermoacoustic Technologies–Design, Construction, and Evaluation
Honorable Mention: Todd C. Leih, Fuzzy Logic/Bayesian Networks Applied to Sonar Automatic Detection and Tracking
Honorable Mention: Amy M. Smith, Can Polypropylene or Hi-Impact Polystyrene Replace Wood in Violin Construction?

1991 – Orlando, FL

ASA judging team: Anthony J. Rudgers (Chair) Jean C. Piquette, and Robert E. Montgomery

First Award: Derek W. Holland, Computer Composed Music: Two-Year Study
Second Award: Meredith Anne Simmons, Ultrasonics Phase V : Effect on Growth, Reproduction, and DNA Sequencing of E. coli
Honorable Mention: Ravi Narasimhan, Automatic Sound Detector
Honorable Mention: Brygg Anders Ullmer, Speech Recognition Through Pipelined Microcontroller Phonemic Analysis
Honorable Mention: Jeremy Stevenson, Outsmarting Chaos II

1990 – Tulsa, OK

ASA judging team: Ellis Zacharias (Chair) and Richard L. Lowery

First Award: Meredith Anne Simmons, Ultrasonics Phase IV: Effect on Growth and Reproduction of Rana Pipiens in Vitro.
Second Award: Cynthia J. Schaumburg, Frequency and the Velocity of Sound
Honorable Mention: J. Nicholas Laneman, Fractal Music
Honorable Mention: Dana J. Indermuhle, The Audio Advantage
Honorable Mention: Jessica E. Runyan, Multivariate Analysis of Sound Production by a Clarinet

1989 – Pittsburgh, PA

ASA judging team: Francis McKendree (Chair), Steven Roth, and James Moreland

First Award: Tony Donguang Shan, Experiment in Speaker Design
Second Award: Merideth Anne Simmons, Ultrasonic Effect on the Germination and Growth of Rahpanus Sativus
Honorable Mention: William Alexander Anderson, Effects of Ultrasonic Irradiation on Chemical Reactions
Honorable Mention: Johnathan Peter Erhardt, Effect of Sound Frequency and Discrimination on Reaction Time to Auditory Stimuli
Honorable Mention: Michael Joseph Golebiewski, Speech Synthesis: Can Computers Talk?

1988 – Knoxville, TN

ASA judging team: Igor V. Nabelek (Chair), Carl H. Bovill, and Patricia W. Earl

First Award: Kevin C. Yu, Voice Recognition
Second Award: Yong S. Lee, Micro Bubbles and Ozone Bubbles in Reduction of Sonar Returns
Honorable Mention: Paige Jean Batty
Honorable Mention: Chana Sue Busbee
Honorable Mention: Dianne K. Newman

1986 – Fort Worth, TX

ASA judging team: Joseph Zemanek, Jr. (Chair), Robert W Siegfried, II, and Jack B. Evans

First Award: Tim Shedd, Correlation of Stopped French Horn and a Conical Pipe
Second Award: Laura A. Hunckler, Lipreading Assistance Via Fourier Analysis
Honorable Mention: William J. Klodnicki, Jr.
Honorable Mention: Kevin C. Yu
Honorable Mention: Paul E. Burrell

1985 – Shreveport, LA

ASA judging team: Joseph Zemanek, Jr. (Chair), Robert W Siegfried, II, and Jack B. Evans

First Award: Tim Shedd, Correlation of Stopped French Horn and a Conical Pipe
Second Award: Laura A. Hunckler, Lipreading Assistance Via Fourier Analysis
Honorable Mention: William J. Klodnicki, Jr.
Honorable Mention: Kevin C. Yu
Honorable Mention: Paul E. Burrell

1984 – Columbus, OH

ASA judging team: Charles W. Rodman (Chair), Sara Garnes, Folden Stumpf, Alan Lubell, and Timothy Newcome

First Award: Eugene Sargent, Developmental Design of a computer Interfaced Seismograph
Second Award: Kent Dana Simon, Solitons: Computer and Experimental Study
Honorable Mention: David A. Riat
Honorable Mention: Wolfram Ploetz
Honorable Mention: William E. Wilcox, Jr.

1983 – Albuquerque, NM

ASA judging team: George A. Alers (Chair), Linda Riensche, and Roger Zimmerman

First Award: David S. DeVore, The Effects of Vibrational Waves on the Platy
Second Award: William E. Wilcox, Jr., The Advantage of Radially Stressed Membrane as a Sound-Light Interface
Honorable Mention: Gerardo Capiel, Speech Synthesis, Recognition and an Introduction to ‘Software Operated Mouth and Ear’ (SOME)
Honorable Mention: Arvind Sinha, A Position Sensor for Robots
Honorable Mention: David H. Boone, Effects of Diagnostic Ultrasound on Chick Embryos

1982 – Houston, TX

ASA judging team: Robert D. Bruce (Chair), Gary H. Koopman, and Otto E. Crenwelge, Jr.

First Award: Gary M. Grinder, Measuring Body Wave Speeds Resulting from Earthquakes
Second Award: Jong-Um Lee, Stationary Waves Produced Along a Fluid Jet
Honorable Mention: Martin R. Helliwell, The Physics of the Violin Back Plate
Honorable Mention: Mark Leon Schmitz, Determining the Travel of Sound Waves in a Whispering Gallery
Honorable Mention: Scott C. Lynnes, The Hearing of Farmers

1981 – Milwaukee, WI

ASA judging team: Michael Cocking (Chair), Larry Eriksson, and Jill Hellmer

First Award: Thomas L. Evans, Terminal Analog Approach to Speech Synthesis
Second Award: Andrew S. Fraley, Speech Recognition by Computers
Honorable Mention: Guido M. Zimmer, Factors that Influence the Tone Quality of a Violin
Honorable Mention: David S. Martin, Physiological and Psychological Effects of Music on Humans

1980 – St. Paul, MN

ASA judging team: W. Dixon Ward (Chair) and Robert F. Lambert

First Award: Guido M. Zimmer, Factors that Determine the Tone Quality of a Violin
Second Award: Edward M. Radnovich, Noise Pollution in the Las Vegas Area
Honorable Mention: Randall G. Moore
Honorable Mention: Thomas L. Evans
Honorable Mention: Dana C. Kincaid, Research into Sound Communication with Computers

1979 – San Antoni, TX

ASA judging team: Elmer L. Hixson (Chair), William K. Connor, and M. Ward Widener

First Award: Richard Allen Garriott
Second Award: Marta Elaine Hean, Noise Pollution, Phase VI

1978 – Orange County, CA

ASA judging team: Frederick H. Fisher (Chair), Edward C. Carterette, John K. Hilliard

First Award (tie): Steven R. Schwalb, Determination of Lateral Line Acoustic and their Biological Significance
First Award (tie): Denise M. Earl, A computer analysis of the aurl perception of musical consonance
Second Award: Gary R. Morrison, Acoustical Design of the decimal flute
Honorable Mention: Gina M. Rasicci, Wood effects on piano sound boards