The Hamster project! Won! An actual award!
Our poster session went pretty well, considering that the Hamster project is about sound you can't hear and we were at a meeting of acousticians. I had to answer a lot of questions about the acoustic end of the project, in which I am not as well versed as I am in the computer end. Even so, I impressed someone. We received an award for environmental acoustics from a person whose own research is a perfect match for the Hamsters. (I wonder if Dr. Science knew about this particular award and this researcher when he suggested we attend this meeting.)
We also got to tour some acoustics labs at Virginia Tech, where any one of their engineering buildings is double the size of my university's entire engineering school, and see some research projects and facilities, like a flight simulator (with which they're working on noise abatement for pilots), a cross section of a Saturn rocket (with which they're working on noise abatement for payloads) and an anechoic chamber. They fed us really well too.
This was a great road trip. I'm totally worn out from it and from another nine hour day in the Sun lab. I'll write more later.
207 words | December 5, 2004 10:57 PM | Ivory tower