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Student Awards

  1. Best Student Paper Award in Noise Control
    J. Dodson, D.R. Dowling, and K. Grosh, "Design and effectiveness of in-line tuning cables for quieting hydraulic power units," 131st Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Indianapolis, IN, (1996).
  2. Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics
    S.H Yonak and D.R. Dowling, "Photoacoustic signals from small gas leaks," 133rd Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., State College, PA, (1997).
  3. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    S.R. Khosla and D.R. Dowling, "Retrofocusing of a time-reversing array in noisy environments,” 136th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Norfolk, VA, (1998)
  4. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    M.R. Dungan and D.R. Dowling, "Computed time-reversing array retrofocus azimuth size in a dynamic bottom-varying shallow-water sound channel," 138th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Columbus, OH (1999)
  5. Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    K. G. Sabra and D.R. Dowling, "Broadband performance of a time reversing array in shallow water," 140th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Newport Beach, CA (2000).
  6. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    K. G. Sabra and D.R. Dowling, "Shallow water performance of a time reversing-array with a moving source," 141th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Chicago, IL (2001).
  7. Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    K. G. Sabra and D.R. Dowling, "Shallow water performance of a moving time reversing-array," 142nd Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Ft. Lauderdale, FL (2001).
  8. Outstanding Paper Award for a Young Investigator in Noise
    W. Sanders, C. Judge, E. Winkel, S.L. Ceccio, D.R. Dowling, and M. Perlin “Turbulent Boundary Layer Pressure Fluctuations at Large Scales and High Reynolds Number,” 143rd Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Pittsburgh, PA (2002).
  9. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    James, K.R. and Dowling, D.R. “Approximating acoustic field uncertainty in underwater sound channels,” 151st Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Providence, Rhode Island (2006).
  10. William Mirsky Award for Outstanding Masters-Degree Research
    Amy Siwek, “Suspension system study of a horizontal axis washing machine for use in validating ADAMS simulations,” Univ. of Michigan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree Thesis, December 2008.
  11. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Abadi, S. and Dowling, D.R. “Blind deconvolution of remote source signals from acoustic array recordings in multipath environments,” presented at the 158th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., San Antonio, TX (2009).
  12. Robert Caddell Memorial Faculty/Student Achievement Award 2010
    T.J. Bress “The influence of processing and fluid parameters on injection molding flow.” Univ. of Michigan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis, 2009.
  13. Best Student Paper Award in Animal Bioacoustics
    Abadi, S.H., Thode, A.M., and Dowling D.R. “Comparison of remote ranging techniques for bowhead whale calls in a dispersive underwater sound channel,” presented at the 166th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., San Francisco, CA (2013).
  14. Student Paper Award in Acoustical Oceanography
    Mookerjee, A., and Dowling, D.R. “Comparison of near-field acoustic coherent backscattering simulations with optics theory and experiments,” presented at the 167th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Providence, RI (2014).
  15. Best Poster (tie) in Signal and Information Processing
    Worthmann, B., and Dowling, D.R. “Frequency difference matched field processing,” presented at the Engineering Graduate Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2014).
  16. Best Student Paper Award (tie) in Underwater Acoustics
    Worthmann, B. and Dowling D.R. "Analytic interpretations of the frequency difference autoproduct in multipath environments," presented at the 170th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Jacksonville, FL (2015).
  17. Student Paper Award in Signal Processing in Acoustics
    Douglass, A., and Dowling D.R., "Frequency-difference beamforming in inhomgeneous media," presented at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Boston, MA (2017).
  18. Best Entry in the Gallery of Acoustics
    Worthmann, B. "Kaleidosone," displayed at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Boston, MA (2017).
  19. Best Paper
    Lipa, J. "Measurement of the Theorized Frequency-Difference Autoproduct Field", Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Symposium, University of Michigan, April 2017.
  20. Best Poster in Signal and Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Communication
    Flynn, T.J., and Dowling, D.R. "Acoustics localization of distributed coherent sources using SEMWAN with subarray smoothing," presented at the Engineering Graduate Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2017).
  21. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Patterson, B. and Dowling, D.R. "Estimation of the probability density function of transmission loss in the ocean using area statistics," presented at the 174th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., New Orleans, LA (2017).
  22. Best Student Paper Award in Signal Processing in Acoustics
    Worthmann, B. and Dowling, D.R. "Cross-term analysis in frequency-difference-based source localization methods," presented at the 175th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Minneapolis, MN (2018).
  23. Best Student Paper Award in Structural Acoustics and Vibration
    Flynn, T.J. and Dowling, D.R. "Remote Acoustic Detection of Localized Delamination in Vibrating Composite Layered Plates," 175th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Minneapolis, MN (2018).
  24. Best Basic Science Poster, Category: Advanced Research Track
    Flynn, T.J. and Dowling, D.R. "2D high-resolution acoustic localization for structural health monitoring," College of Engineering Graduate Symposium, University of Michigan (2018).
  25. Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Douglass, A.S., Abadi, S.H., and Dowling, D.R. "Out-of-band beamforming in shallow water with horizontal arrays," 176th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Victoria, BC, Canada (2018).
  26. Best Student Paper Award in Signal Processing in Acoustics
    Flynn, T.J., and Dowling, D.R. "Two-Dimensional high-resolution acoustic localization of distributed coherent sources for structural health monitoring," 176th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Victoria, BC, Canada (2018).
  27. Honorable Mention Poster Award
    Daniel Yuan, Estelle Feider-Blazer, and Maria Roma “Signal processing for the detection, localization, and classification of transient sounds and material properties,” University of Michigan, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2019).
  28. Student Paper Award in Signal Processing in Acoustics
    Geroski, D.J., and Dowling, D.R. "Explorations of In-Situ Source Localization in the Deep Ocean using Frequency Difference Matched Field Processing and Matched Autoproduct Processing," 176th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Victoria, BC, Canada (2018).
  29. Student Paper Award in Structural Acoustics
    Flynn, T.J., and Dowling, D.R. "Data-driven approaches for damage-type classification in vibrating square plates," presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Louisville, Kentucky (2019).
  30. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Lee, B., and Dowling, D.R. "Machine learning methods for estimating probability density functions of transmission loss: Robustness to source frequency and depth," presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Louisville, Kentucky (2019).
  31. Best Student Paper Award
    Geroski, D.J., and Dowling, D.R. "Out of Band Signal Processing for Localizing Distant Sources in a Noisy Deep Ocean," presented at the 5th Underwater Acoustics Conference and Exhibition, Hersonissos, Crete (2019).
  32. Student Paper Award in Signal Processing
    Geroski, D.J., and Dowling, D.R. "Using the Frequency-Difference Autoproduct to Passively Range Remote Sources in the Deep Ocean," presented at the 178th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., San Diego, CA, December 2019.
  33. Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Joslyn, N., and Dowling, D.R. “Using the frequency-difference autoproduct to regain coherence in rough surface scattering,” presented at the 178th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., San Diego, CA, December 2019.
  34. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Geroski, D.J., and Dowling, D.R. "Using frequency-differencing to robustly localize distant sources in the deep ocean," Acoustics Virtually Everywhere Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., December 2020.
  35. Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Joslyn, N.J., and Dowling, D.R. “Coherent reflection recovery in forward scattering from random rough surfaces with non-Gaussian correlation functions,” 181st Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Seattle, WA, December 2021.
  36. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Lee, B.M., Johnson, J.R., and Dowling, D.R. “Using neural networks to estimate the probability density function of transmission loss in ocean environments with a database-driven model of uncertainty,” 181st Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Seattle, WA, December 2021.
  37. Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics
    Joslyn, N.J., Dahl, P.H., and Dowling, D.R. “Using the coherence of the frequency-difference autoproduct to facilitate rough surface information identification,” 182nd Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Denver, CO, May 2022.
  38. Best Student Paper Award in Acoustic Signal Processing
    Joslyn, N.J., and Dowling, D.R. “Improved single snapshot beamforming in a noisy environment using the cubic autoproduct.,” 183rd Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Nashville, TN, December 2022.
  39. First Place, Structural Acoustics and Vibration Young Presenter Competition
    King, A.M., and Dowling, D.R. “Acoustic Source Localization on Finite Structures Using Remote Sensors,” 186th Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. Am., Ottawa, Canada. May 2024.
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