Hold Positions Research Articles

Waistlines and Ratings of Executives: Does Executive Status Overcome Obesity Stigma?

Top executives hold positions that convey power, prestige, and competence as predicted by status characteristics theory. Nevertheless, the impressions generated through this status characteristic may be vulnerable when executives also possess characteristics that reflect a devalued social identity, such as obesity. Data from health examinations and multisource evaluation surveys of 757 CEOs, vice presidents, and upper managers suggest that the observable cue of umbilical waist circumference is negatively associated with evaluations of leaders across hierarchical levels, even after controlling for Body Mass Index, physical activity, personality, and demographic characteristics. Thus, hierarchically based status characteristics are insufficient in overcoming the stigma of obesity: even CEOs are subject to the pernicious effects of obesity stigma. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

PS-055 What Is The Best Position For Bottle-feeding Preterm Infants? A Cochrane Review

Background During sucking feeds preterm infants have been shown to experience physiological instability, including lower oxygen saturations (SpO2) and heart rates (HR), and periods of apnoea or cyanosis. Obstructive apnoea may occur when the infant’s neck is hyperflexed or conversely, hyperextended. It has been hypothesised that airway obstruction linked to feeding position might be a contributing factor to a lower SpO2 and HR. The aim of this Cochrane review was to assess the available evidence on the effect of position when bottle feeding preterm infants. Method We performed a systematic review using the methodology of the Neonatal Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration. An extensive search of electronic databases (Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL) and trial registries has been performed. Results Four small RCTs were identified that compared the standard cradle hold and alternate positions for feeding. In total 67 infants were studied One study did not report any of the a priori outcome measures and was not included in the analysis. There were no difference between infants feed with a cradle hold versus a side lying position for the outcomes: days to achieve full suck feeding (MD -4.00; 95% CI -9.20 to 1.20, days), number of infants with an SpO2 Conclusions There was no difference in infants’ physiological stability between the cradle-hold and a side-lying position for bottle feeding preterm infants. Further research is required to determine if alternate positions to the cradle hold might be beneficial for bottle feeding preterm infants.

William A. Zoghbi, M.D., lends expertise on special imaging issue of The Methodist Debakey Cardiovascular Journal.

The editors of the Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal extend a heartfelt thanks to William A. Zoghbi, M.D., for serving as guest editor of this special issue on multimodality cardiac imaging. A leader in cardiology and cardiovascular imaging, Dr. Zoghbi is the William L. Winters Endowed Chair of Cardiovascular Imaging at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Houston Methodist Hospital and is director of the hospital’s Cardiovascular Imaging Institute, which he founded in 2005. Dr. Zoghbi completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he joined the faculty in 1985 and became the John S. Dunn Professor of Medicine and director of the echocardiography laboratory. Dr. Zoghbi has developed novel techniques to evaluate valvular disorders and cardiac function, improving the noninvasive evaluation and management of heart disease. He is also known for his research on myocardial hibernation and his development of 3-dimensional techniques to evaluate valvular dynamics and measure valvular regurgitation. Dr. Zoghbi has authored more than 250 original publications and has been invited to lecture on his work at every major cardiology conference around the globe. He also has trained more than 100 cardiology fellows in advanced cardiovascular imaging, many of whom now hold positions of leadership in academic medicine. A recipient of the Richard Popp Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), Dr. Zoghbi chaired the development of national and international guidelines for evaluating native and artificial heart valves with cardiac ultrasound, and he co-chaired the American College of Cardiology (ACC) committee that wrote a monograph on how best to train the new generation of cardiologists in multimodality cardiovascular imaging. Dr. Zoghbi has been actively involved with the ACC, the American Heart Association, and the ASE for more than 25 years, serving as president of both the ASE and ACC and on the ACC’s board of trustees since 2001. He is currently a board member of the World Heart Federation, co-chairing its Global Task Force for Cardiovascular Disease, and recently represented the ACC at the United Nations and World Health Organization. R E C O G N I T I O N S

American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2nd ed AmeliaPeck with Cynthia V. A.Schaffner. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and MQ Publications, 2007.

American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2nd ed Amelia Peck with Cynthia V. A. Schaffner. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and MQ Publications, 2007.Nineteenth-century bedcovers were made to be functional and beautiful, but they are also intriguingly complicated historical objects. Amelia Peck's second edition of American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art uncovers that complexity through an in-depth analysis of the highlights of the Metropolitan collection, ninety stunning examples accompanied by superb illustrations. The visual form of these objects is predictably spectacular, but equally fascinating are the accounts of production and original use, the genealogies of the forms, and the biographies of those who made them, valued them, and preserved them.There are two historical narratives that wind their way through the individual examples: American social history on the one hand and the stylistic history on the other. Organized in sections on quilts (pieced, applique'd, and wholecloth) and coverlets (woven and embroidered), the text is comprised of essays providing factual and contextual information on each of the ninety bedcovers.The objects evoke many interesting aspects of nineteenth-century social history. There is abundant information about individuals, such as family connections among quilt-makers and collectors, and regional traditions among coverlet weavers. For anyone accustomed to thinking of modern artists as eccentric and romantic figures, this biographical material reminds us that the production of great beauty is just as likely to occur within a very ordinary life as in an unconventional one. The objects themselves are also laden with historical significance, especially in terms of textiles, which have been comprehensively researched. We learn, for example, that pieced quilts were not made from leftover old clothes and linens but rather from commercially marketed fabric. This means that by virtue of their production of bedcovers, women at once conformed to familiar gender roles (too delicate and passive to have professions or hold positions of authority in public life and so confined to domesticity), but also as consumers played an active role in the economy. Moreover, cutting, piecing, and stitching lent themselves to team work, and so quilt-making, unlike more solitary domestic tasks, justified visiting with other women and thereby enabled the cultivation of private female society. …

Comparison of Maternal Comfort between two Breastfeeding Positions

Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of cradle hold versus football hold position of breast feeding in terms of increased comfort of primiparous women and to find the association between comfort of primiparous women and type of delivery. Method and materials: An evaluative approach was used and the design selected for the study was quasi experimental, two group post test only design. Samples comprised of 60 postnatal mothers (30 in each group) admitted in Kasturba Hospital, Manipal and Dr.TMA Pai Hosp ital, Udupi. Purposive sampling technique was used to select samples. Data was collected using demographic proforma and maternal comfort checklist Results: The result of the study shows that, there was no significant difference in the mean post test scores of comfort of primiparous women between cradle hold and football hold groups (p=0.411). But there was improvement in the mean post test scores of comfort of primiparous women in subsequent measures (three measures) in each group. There was no significant association between comfort of primiparous women and type of delivery (P value- 0.589). Conclusion: Cradle hold and football hold positions of breast feeding were equally effective in terms of increased comfort of primiparous women. Mother can try either cradle hold or football hold position for breast feeding and can adopt whichever is comfortable for her. The study also revealed that there was no association between comfort of primiparous women and type of delivery in both cradle hold and football hold positions of breast feeding. Mother can try either cradle hold or football hold position for breast feeding irrespective of type of delivery

A Critique of Rob Lovering's Criticism of the Substance View

In his article, The Substance View: a critique, Rob Lovering argues that the substance view - according to which the human embryo is a person entitled to human rights - leads to such implausible implications that this view should be abandoned. In this article I respond to his criticism by arguing that either his arguments fail because the proponents of the substance view are not obligated to hold positions which may be considered absurd, or because the positions which they are assumed to be obligated to hold, are not absurd at all.

Gender Equity in Dental Academics

Gender Equity in Dental Academics

Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education by William Perez (review)

Reviewed by: Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education by William Perez Anne-Marie Núñez and Vanessa Sansone William Perez . Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2011. 191 pp. Hardcover: $72.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-8077-5284-5. "We have to finish the job," said President Obama, two months after being reelected to a second term, about his plans for reforming immigration. This declaration speaks to the type of change most immigration reform advocates have been fighting for. Not since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 has immigration reform gained such momentum. Although undocumented children and young adults are typically brought here through no fault of their own, they have faced significant penalties in educational and economic mobility. As a counterpoint to the media rhetoric that frames undocumented Latino immigrants as drains on public resources or as criminals, William Perez's Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education explores the potential for undocumented students to contribute to the economic and civic life of the United States. The book is based on a two-year study in which Perez collected observational, interview, and survey data about 110 undocumented Latino students enrolled in high schools, community colleges, and universities across the United States. The majority (73%) of the sample resided in California, followed by 17% from Texas, 4% from Virginia, and the remaining 6% from Georgia, Missouri, New York, Washington, and Washington, D.C. (pp. 14-15). He used multiple methods of data collection to provide an in-depth understanding of how, in the face of significant barriers, these students not only engage academically and socially in secondary and higher education, but also participate in civic and community activities. Perez begins by examining the political context influencing immigration reform in the United States. He addresses how economic policies such as the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) caused economic disparities in Mexico that resulted in significant increases in Mexican immigration to the United States. He also discusses undocumented students' limited access to economic and social opportunities and the policies that constrain these opportunities, such as limited access to postsecondary financial aid, lack of access to social services, and minimal chances to find gainful employment. Together, these macro-level factors exacerbate various psychological and social stressors for these youth, including the feeling of being marginalized by the stigma of being undocumented. In Chapter 2, however, Perez points out how these youth have developed the resiliency to cope with these feelings and economic limitations. Such strategies involve the "immigrant optimism" (Kao & Tienda, 1995). They (a) value educational and economic opportunities in the United States, (b) believe that, in accordance with the concept of the American Dream, individual mobility is possible due to hard work, and (c) minimize and resist perceptions of undocumented immigrants as criminals or as drains on public resources. Perez presents themes from qualitative data indicating that, in addition to these personal protective mechanisms, these students also rely on social support from educators, parents, or peers to contend with their stressors and economic hardships. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on the academic and civic engagement of undocumented Latino students. In these chapters, Perez presents quantitative survey data indicating the frequency of participation in various academic and civic activities relevant to his respondents' stage of education. Furthermore, he discusses the results of a qualitative analysis to enhance our understanding of students' experiences in these activities, as well as the personal qualities and social supports that fuel their participation. Findings indicate that many students are engaged in these activities because of their determination to succeed, which is a central part of their identity. Many of these students receive academic awards, hold positions of leadership, participate in extracurricular activities in high school and college, and volunteer. This level of engagement is even more remarkable, considering that many of these students are employed a significant number of hours per week and must deal with transportation difficulties in reaching extracurricular or community sites. In Chapter 5, Perez addresses how community colleges play a role in undocumented Latino students' pursuit of higher education...

Friends or Foes? The Impact of Political Allies and Social Movement Activity on Environmental Legislation in Congress

This paper challenges implications from leading social movement theories of policy change by presenting results that cast doubt on the benefits of having elite allies. Using event history techniques, we show that bill sponsors identified as strong allies of the environmental movement have a significantly lower chance of enacting pro-environmental legislation. Instead, successful legislators had environmental voting records closer to the median voter in Congress, are members of the dominant political party, and hold positions as chairs of environmental committees. While environmental lobbyist groups positively influence the passage of legislation, contrary to conventional wisdom, peaceful protest has no significant effect on legislative outcomes.

The decreased responsiveness of lumbar muscle spindles to a prior history of spinal muscle lengthening is graded with the magnitude of change in vertebral position

In the lumbar spine, muscle spindle responsiveness is affected by the duration and direction of a lumbar vertebra’s positional history. The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between changes in the magnitude of a lumbar vertebra’s positional history and the responsiveness of lumbar muscle spindles to a subsequent vertebral position and subsequent vertebral movement. Neural activity from multifidus and longissimus muscle spindle afferents in deeply anesthetized cats was recorded while creating positional histories of the L6 vertebra. History was induced using a displacement-controlled feedback motor. It held the L6 vertebra for 4s at an intermediate position (hold-intermediate at 0mm) and at seven positions from 0.07 to 1.55mm more ventralward and dorsalward which lengthened (hold-long) and shortened (hold-short) the lumbar muscles. Following the conditioning hold positions, L6 was returned to the intermediate position. Muscle spindle discharge at this position and during a lengthening movement was compared between hold-intermediate and hold-short conditionings and between hold-intermediate and hold-short conditionings. We found that regardless of conditioning magnitude, the seven shortening magnitudes similarly increased muscle spindle responsiveness to both vertebral position and movement. In contrast, the seven lengthening magnitudes produced a graded decrease in responsiveness to both position and movement. The decrease to position became maximal following conditioning magnitudes of ∼0.75mm. The decrease to movement did not reach a maximum even with conditioning magnitudes of ∼1.55mm. The data suggest that the fidelity of proprioceptive information from muscle spindles in the low back is influenced by small changes in the previous length history of lumbar muscles.

Nonnutritive Sweeteners: Where Are We Today?

Controversy continues to surround use of nonnutritive sweeteners among consumers, despite extensive premarket safety studies used in the rigorous approval process of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The American Diabetes Association and the National Cancer Institute hold positions that FDA-approved nonnutritive sweeteners may be safely used by consumers.1 However, people with diabetes also continue to question the use of nonnutritive sweeteners in a diabetes eating plan even with this assurance. Misinformation regarding nonnutritive sweeteners is shared routinely through multiple sources such as the Internet, print media, and electronic communications. As a result, diabetes educators and other health care professionals need to become more familiar with the safety and usage of these products to help people with diabetes discern fact from fiction. The potential benefits of nonnutritive sweeteners for people with diabetes are reductions in calories and carbohydrates for weight management and glycemic control, respectively, as well as reductions in the risk of tooth decay.2 This article reviews the history of nonnutritive sweeteners, explains FDA safety standards and definitions, and provides an overview of nonnutritive sweeteners available in the United States and practical teaching tips for counseling consumers about their use. Sweetening agents are broadly classified as nutritive sweeteners, which provide energy, and nonnutritive sweeteners, which provide little to no energy. Nonnutritive sweeteners are several hundred to several thousand times sweeter than sucrose. Although some actually provide calories, their intense sweetness means that they are used in such small amounts that they are generally considered noncaloric. Familiar nutritive sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, agave nectar, fruit juice, and honey. Each provides ~ 4 kcal/g. Nonnutritive sweeteners are different from sugar alcohols (also known as polyols) such as xylitol and sorbitol, which are considered nutritive sweeteners, providing an average of 2 kcal/g because of their incomplete digestion and absorption. …

Una mirada a la presencia de las mujeres en la educación superior en México

The growth of higher education in Mexico over the last decades is characterized, among other things, by the greater participation of women. Today, there are significant numbers of women studying undergraduate or graduate degrees, incorporated to institutions as academic personnel and members of the National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, or SNI) or that hold positions in management. However, there are fields of knowledge —exact sciences and engineering, for example— where there are fewer women than men. Postgraduate degrees are new areas in which women have greater presence. On the other hand, the glass ceiling persists in most universities. Despite the fact that women have been inserted into different areas of higher education in Mexico, inequalities and iniquities continue; it is therefore necessary to develop a series of strategies and programs that allow us to speak of the existence of gender equality in our higher education system. The purpose of this article is it to bring data up to date showing advances in the presence of women in higher education, paying critical attention to the areas where it happens to a lesser degree, as well as presenting some of the guidelines that are being promoted in the country to foster greater gender equality and equity in the system of higher education.

Why There are On-the-Run/Off-the-Run Phenomena

This paper offers an alternative explanation for the on-the-run/off-the-run phenomena in T-securities, namely, the concentration of trade in recent issues, cost-of-trading differential and price differential between recent issue and earlier – issued bonds. We claim that optimizing the cost-of-trading and economizing on the trading cost are at the heart of the phenomena. Two distinct groups of market participants trade in T-securities: long-term buy-and-hold investors and market-makers/hedgers; the bulk of trades are initiated by hedgers, who trade in T-notes for reasons exogenous to the T-securities market and who hold positions for short period of time. To minimize their trading costs, hedgers concentrate all their trades in one security out of many available; that security can be selected by fiat ( as in Japan in 1980s’), or by overt convention or by tacit understanding. Concentration of trades drives the cost of trading in that security down, and (via equilibrium considerations) causes valuation differences between new and old issues. The valuation difference brings in arbitrage opportunities and ultimately causes the emergence of specialness. Our insight allows a parsimonious explanation of on-the-run/off-the-run yield premium, the concentration of trades in few securities and emerges of “specialness” among the on-the-run securities mainly. We also show that the OTR arrangement is societaly – optimal by minimizing the trading costs in the economy.

The skills and autonomy of female part-time work in Britain and Sweden

Most OECD countries have experienced an increase of female part-time employment in the last decades. It has been argued that part-time work may give greater employment flexibility, enabling mothers to reconcile conflicting demands of family and work and thereby facilitating their integration into the wage economy. At the same time, it has been suggested that female part-time work implies segmentation of the labour force into a core and a periphery, with marginalized, low qualified jobs for part-time employees. However, little attention has been given to the possible mediating effect of the institutional context on potential job quality disadvantages of part-timers. We examine this question by comparing the skills and autonomy of female part-time workers in two countries, Britain and Sweden, often considered as representing quite distinct forms of institutional regime. The results show that female part-time employees in Sweden hold positions of higher skill and have more autonomy compared to their equivalents in Britain. Even so, both British and Swedish part-time employees face relative disadvantage when compared to female full-time workers. We conclude that differences in the institutional systems of Sweden and Britain do have a significant effect on the absolute skill level of part-time work. However, the relative disadvantage of part-timers persists despite Swedish policies giving greater salience to improvements in the quality of work.

Scandinavian Studies: The Past Hundred Years, The Next Hundred Years

Scandinavian Studies:The Past Hundred Years, The Next Hundred Years Jason Lavery, SASS President Opening Plenary Address delivered at the One Hundred First Annual Meeting of the Society Chicago, Illinois, May 5, 2011 Members of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, honored guests, my dear colleagues and friends! This conference is a commemoration of the society's centennial. It is also a homecoming. This society, our society, was founded in this city in 1911. In the ensuing century SASS has held fourteen more meetings in Chicago, sponsored by institutions ranging from the University of Chicago to the Svenska klubben of Chicago to North Park University, our current host. In addition to the fifteen meetings held in Chicago, three more meetings have been held in neighboring Evanston. In total, the Chicagoland area has hosted the annual SASS conference eighteen times, more than any other metropolitan area. Speaking of North Park University, I would like to recognize the hard work of our conference organizers, Dean Charles Peterson of North Park University, his chief assistant Karin Andersson, and the many others here who helped them make this centennial conference possible. I would them to stand and ask all of you to acknowledge their work with a round of applause. Over the last two years as SASS president, I have noticed that our conferences are held with a very strong sense of the present. We present papers based on our most current scholarly findings, we share the [End Page 299] current news about ourselves with others. We seek to manage most of the society's affairs for the next year in a matter of a couple of days. At this conference I hope that we not only attend to the tasks at hand, but also that we start to establish a common sense of mission for the next century. I suggest we start this process by recognizing our current strengths, identifying the challenges before us, and learning from the experiences of our past century. Over the last century, this society has developed two great strengths: a commitment to building an ever inclusive scholarly community and a dedication to publishing high-quality scholarship. SASS members have made their society a vibrant support network for fellow scholars in Scandinavian Studies. This function of SASS is more important to its members than to members of most other similar scholarly societies. Most of the members of SASS do not hold positions in departments of Scandinavian, but rather in departments such as foreign languages, history, English, or comparative literature. Many active members of SASS work outside of universities in such capacities as museum curators, professional translators, and independent scholars. Of the thirteen members of the society's current Executive Council, only five hold positions in departments of Scandinavian. For the majority of SASS members, this society is its Scandinavian department, the institutional framework for its scholarly activity in Scandinavian Studies. Such a framework provides an important resource when a member must justify her or his activities in a daily work environment that does not specialize in Scandinavian Studies. We might be tempted to believe that this commitment to inclusive community stems from our desire to apply to SASS the values that we encounter when we study Scandinavia, such as consensus, egalitarianism, and flexibility for difference. We should also consider less scholarly and lofty explanations. Our commitment to an inclusive community stems from the collective recognition that we work in a small scholarly field. We cannot afford to be too exclusive and survive. We're realists. We realize that we're all we've got. Most members of this society have experienced this spirit of inclusive community primarily at the annual conference. This inclusiveness is evident in the diversity of panels, presentations, and meetings of various groups within the society, such as the Women's Caucus, the Society of Historians of Scandinavia, the Sámi caucus, the Ibsen Society, ASTRA, NORTANA, the Finnish caucus, and many others. We also grow our [End Page 300] community through our dedication to developing the next generation of scholars. The society's President's Grants support the travel of graduate students to the annual conference. The society awards Aurora Borealis Prizes for...

Political Diversity at the Nineteenth Congress of the CPSU, October 1952

AbstractThis essay argues that the definition of the USSR's political system as a “party-state,” ignores the crucial difference between the majority of the members of the CPSU who hold positions in the Soviet state and the minority who are full time party officials with no such position and who regard themselves as the natural leaders of the party as a whole. To highlight this distinction, this essay defines the party officials as the “inner party” and the party members who man the state as the “outer party” and focuses on the ongoing dispute among party officials over the most effective way to provide leadership of the Soviet state. This conflict is expressed indirectly in the published discussion of the relative importance of officials' “internal work” (personnel management, verification of fulfillment and ideological education) and their “economic work” the close supervision of state agencies' administration of the five year plans. The essay briefly summarizes Stalin's own formulations on the subject, the conflict between Malenkov and Zhdanov over this issue from 1939 to 1948, and the ongoing debate among officials after the reform of the departments of the Secretariat in 1948. The bulk of the essay analyzes the widely divergent views of officials' priorities presented at the Nineteenth Congress of the CPSU in October 1952. It concludes that Western scholars have generally underestimated the role of the Congress in the creation of the political oligarchy that ruled the USSR after 1953.

The Victimization Experiences of Women in the Workforce: Moving Beyond Single Categories of Work or Violence

The examination of the co-occurrence of different types of victimization in the lives of women in the workforce appears infrequently in the literature. We examine multiple types of victimization in women's lives across a range of employment and income levels. Our research indicates that more than two-thirds of women in the workplace experienced at least one type of violence against women (VAW). These women hold positions at various workforce levels, indicating that victims of VAW are not limited to the lower employment rungs. This research is a step toward highlighting the scope, prevalence, and interconnectedness of different forms of VAW in the lives of women in the workforce.

The Impact of International Hot Money in International Commodity Future Markets during the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Behavior of traders including investors and speculators in commodity future markets are studied before and after the subprime mortgage crisis. We put our attention on quantity of traders hold positions instead of price volatility or capital return rate of commodity future markets. By standardize correlation coefficients of net positions we try to quantify the impact of speculative funds on behalf of international hot money in international commodity futures markets in the subprime mortgage crisis. Parametric and non-parametric tests are used in this paper. The empirical results reveal that investment directions of speculators do change in crisis and they connect more tightly with markets compared with investors for that their find more opportunities and higher return rate during the Subprime mortgage crisis.

Acoustics at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Acoustics at Georgia Tech spans multiple schools, including Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology, Music, Physics, Mathematics, and Architecture. The program began over 50 years ago and strengthened considerably in the 1960s and 1970s after Eugene Patronis, Ben Zinn, and Allan Pierce joined the faculty in the Schools of Physics, Aerospace Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, respectively. Since then hundreds of students in acoustics have graduated and hold positions in academia and industry around the world. Currently the School of Mechanical Engineering has twelve academic and eight research faculty with primary interest in Acoustics and Dynamics. Areas of research include architectural acoustics, psychoacoustics, noise control, environmental acoustics, sustainable systems design, underwater acoustics, bioacoustics, ultrasonics, active/passive control, fluid-structure interaction, nonlinear acoustics, acousto-optics, micromachined sensors and actuators, vibration of nonlinear and frictional systems, shock and vibration isolation, structural acoustics, wave propagation, and structural health monitoring. Masters and Ph.D. level programs are offered in addition to various undergraduate courses. The depth of knowledge at Tech facilitates a variety of collaborations, allowing students a multi-disciplinary education in the science and application of acoustics. Student interactions are further facilitated by a number of organizations on campus, including a student chapter of the ASA.

Acoustics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Acoustics at Georgia Tech spans multiple schools, including Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology, Music, Physics, Mathematics, and Architecture. The program began over 50 years ago and strengthened considerably in the 1960s and 1970s after Eugene Patronis, Ben Zinn, and Allan Pierce joined the faculty in the Schools of Physics, Aerospace Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, respectively. Since then hundreds of students in acoustics have graduated and hold positions in academia and industry around the world. Currently the School of Mechanical Engineering has 11 academic faculty members with primary interest in acoustics and dynamics. Areas of research include architectural acoustics, psychoacoustics, noise control, environmental acoustics, sustainable systems design, underwater acoustics, bioacoustics, ultrasonics, active/passive control, fluid-structure interaction, nonlinear acoustics, acousto-optics, micromachined sensors and actuators, vibration of nonlinear and frictional systems, shock and vibration isolation, structural acoustics, wave propagation, and structural health monitoring. Masters and Ph.D. level programs are offered in addition to various undergraduate courses. The depth of knowledge at Georgia Tech facilitates a variety of collaborations, allowing students a multi-disciplinary education in the science and application of acoustics. Student interactions are further facilitated by a number of organizations on campus, including a recently established student chapter of the ASA.