Past meetings of the Society
April 2006

April 2006 Meeting

Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Critical Listening Classroom, Durgin Hall, Room 114, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 35 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA 01854

Featured Guest: Robert Crowley of Soundwave Research
Topic: The new Crowley and Tripp Ribbon Microphones

Robert J. Crowley (Bob) is the cofounder of Soundwave Research Laboratories Inc, of Ashland, MA --a medical instrument developer located in the same facility as Crowley and Tripp Microphones. Bob has designed transducers for ultrasonic and sonic applications, and has over 100 US and foreign patents and patent applications, mainly in fields relating to imaging, sensors, and nanotechnology. In this presentation, Bob will talk about design goals and methods his group uses to improve the sound quality of microphones. Examples will include some of Bob's laboratory findings and recent inventions in ribbon microphones.

There will be a detailed look at how the design goals are being implemented at Crowley and Tripp, as well as a close up look at new carbon nanotube array transducers being developed by Soundwave Research Laboratories.

Note that there will be no open forum, only a brief time for announcements, since this is an AES sponsored meeting.


Directions: Traveling North on Route 3: Take exit 30B to the Lowell Connector and follow the directions below.

Traveling South on Route 3: Take exit 30A for I-495 North. Immediately take exit 35C for the Lowell Connector and follow the directions below.

Traveling on I-495 North or South: Take exit 35C to the Lowell Connector and follow the directions below.

From the Lowell Connector: Take the first exit (Exit 3) off the Lowell Connector to Industrial Avenue. Go right at the stop sign at the end of the off ramp and proceed to the rotary. Take the first right off of the rotary onto Industrial Avenue. The first traffic light is at the intersection with Chelmsford Street (Route 110). Proceed straight across. Industrial Avenue becomes Stevens Street at this intersection. Follow Stevens Street for approximately 1.8 miles to the stop sign (this is one block before the end of Stevens street). Take a right at the David Chandler Sq. sign onto Middlesex Street. Go less than 1/2 mile and Take the first left at the blinking light (a 4-way stop) onto Wilder Street (there is a convenience store on the far right corner). Proceed a short distance on Wilder through the traffic lights at Broadway. UMass Lowell's South Campus is ahead and to the left.

Durgin Hall (do not confuse with Dugan Hall) is the last building on the left on Wilder before the end of the road. There is limited free parking adjacent to Durgin Hall and a few visitor parking spaces across Wilder Street. There is a parking lot across Pawtucket Street next to the river. The meeting is in room 114.


 

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