MTU students Andrew Barnard and Jason LaLonde won two of the three prizes awarded at the Noise-Con 2004 Conference held in Baltimore in July.

Bernard’s paper, “The Measurement of Transmission Loss using the Four Microphone Method,” won the first place award. The second place award was given to LaLonde for his paper, "Noise Reduction from an Electric Router.”

The papers were co-authored by associate professor Mohan Rao (MEEM), Bernard’s MS thesis advisor and the advisor for the undergraduate project presented by LaLonde and sponsored by NIOSH. This year’s student paper contest had 12 entries: four from MTU, three from Purdue, two from Penn State and one each from the University of Maryland, Georgia Tech and the University of Cincinnati. The awards carried a certificate and a cash prize of $1,000 each.