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Micah
Downing, Ph.D.
Dr. Micah Downing is a founding member of Blue Ridge Research and Consulting and serves as Chief Scientist and President. He has over 18 years experience in environmental and transportation noise research. His primary research has focused on aircraft noise and sonic boom modeling, measurement, and assessment as well as characterizing natural soundscapes. He received his PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech. Before completion of his PHD, Dr. Downing began working the Air Force Research Laboratory in the Noise Effects Branch as a Research Physicist. In this position, he became responsible for sonic boom modeling and measurements as well as the lead for aircraft noise data collection for environmental noise applications. Dr. Downing then moved to Wyle Laboratories, where he was responsible for both research projects and environmental noise analysis of military noise issues. Dr. Downing has served as the Principal Investigator for over 35 field measurement projects for USAF, USN, USA, NATO, and NPS. In addition to his applied research experience, He has been the acoustical expert for over 10 major environmental impact studies for DoD. Dr. Downing serves as co-Chair of the Transportation Noise Committee for INCE and serves as the chair of the aircraft noise subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration. He serves on the Acoustical Technical Committee of the American Helicopter Society International, and he is a member of Acoustical Society of America.
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Bruce
Ikelheimer, Ph.D.
Dr. Bruce Ikelheimer is a founding member of Blue Ridge Research and Consulting and serves as a Principal Engineer and the Vice President of Research. He has over 15 years of experience in aeroacoustics, aircraft noise, noise modeling, environmental noise, and active noise control. He is the lead in commercial business development for BRRC and specializes in advance modeling techniques. Dr. Ikelheimer’s recent focus has been on the development of a new model to asses the noise impact from air-borne weapons. In addition he has been heavily involved with the assessment of outdoor warning systems for nuclear energy facilities. He received his Masters degree in Aeronautics and his Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University. After completing his Ph.D. (with a focus on Active Noise Control) he began working with SRS Technologies, providing contract support to the Defense Advances Research Projects Agency (DARPA). There he was responsible for tracking and helping to manage over $20 million dollars in research programs. Projects included advanced small scale propulsion systems for next generation UAVs, as well as the Quiet Super sonic Program (QSP). After three years there he began working for Wyle Laboratories. There he worked in the development of next generation noise models. He was responsible for the development of a user friendly ray-tracing model called NMSIM, as well managing many environmental noise programs and field measurements. He is a senior member of American Institute of aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the Acoustical Society of America. |
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Michael
James, M.S.
Michael M. James is a founding member of Blue Ridge Research and Consulting where he serves as Vice President. His areas of expertise include applied research, measurement, and analysis of atmospheric acoustics and technical management of consulting studies focused on military and community noise. He has performed over twenty five large scale sound and vibration measurements for military and civilian aviation, weaponry, and blast noise to develop reference noise data and advanced propagation algorithms. Mr. James has extensive experience in sound and vibration measurements, data acquisition, signal processing, data analysis, and software development. He has been instrumental in developing complete measurement systems including a near-field acoustic holography system for jet plume characterization, the Aero-Acoustic Research Complex for aircraft source noise characterization in White Sands New Mexico, and an Acoustic Beamforming system for transportation source noise identification. He completed his BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. His research at Virginia Tech’s Vibration and Acoustic Laboratory included designing and testing passive and active turbofan engine noise reduction and control technologies for NASA Langley Acoustics Research Group. Upon graduation he served at Wyle Laboratories where he performed aviation research for the DoD and technical management of airport noise studies.
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Kevin Bradley
Kevin Bradley has over 14 years of experience in aviation and environmental noise research and consulting for civil airports, FAA and the DoD. He has focused on aircraft noise modeling as well as conducting acoustic and vibration measurement programs related to transportation and environmental noise. He received his BS and MS Degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. As a Senior Engineer for Wyle Laboratories, Mr. Bradley managed civil airport and military airspace environmental noise studies, conducting noise modeling for FAR Part 150 studies, military flight training operations, sonic boom and weapons system noise. He was responsible for developing civil aviation models to study the effects of noise mitigation strategies on airport communities and for developing military aviation noise models. He has extensive experience conducting acoustic and vibration measurements, data acquisition, signal processing and data analysis. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. |
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