The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) will be running a 12-week PAID summer undergraduate research program for students interested in the area of Acoustics. This intensive summer program in acoustics is designed for under-represented undergraduate students from across the country.

Eligibility:

• Currently enrolled as an undergraduate student in a 2- or 4-year institution, including community and tribal colleges.
• Applicant’s race/ethnicity should be one of the following underrepresented groups: Black/African American, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Alaska Native, Hispanic or Latino/a
• Interested in acoustics.

Commitments:

• Approximately 30-40 hours per week
• Weekly cohort meetings will be conducted virtually during the Summer, so participants will connect remotely. Assistance with remote connection can be provided if needed.
• Participate in upcoming ASA meetings, with travel/fees provided by the SURIEA program.

Past projects include:

• Interning at Bose
• How does speech degrade by face masks effect bilingual speech perception?
• Calibration of Mobile Phones for Collecting Noise Data
• Implementing a real-time PAM imaging system using ex-vivo human vertebrae and microbubbles
• Acoustic Consulting: A Crash Course
• Videos that alter the pleasantness of sounds
• Interning at Threshold Acoustics
• The Doppler Ultrasound twinkling artifact on crevices etched on Silicon wafer.
• Acoustic Alternations and Emphasized Pitches of Hawaiian Humpback Whales
• Uncovering Social Identifiers Inherent in Speech Signal