The Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) holds a society-wide student paper competition for POMA submissions based on a presentation or poster from an Acoustical Society of America (ASA) meeting.

Award Amounts

Up to five student papers will each receive an award of 300 USD and certificate signed by the ASA President and POMA Editor. Student paper winners will also have the opportunity to appear on the ASA Publications podcast, Across Acoustics. Additionally, a special designation will be added to POMA article cover page and their article will be promoted in email and social media campaigns.

Eligibility Requirements

to qualify for the award, an author must:

  • be enrolled as a student at least half-time (graduates are eligible if the presented work was performed as a student within one year of the meeting). *Note that the student author does not need to be a member of the ASA to qualify.
  • be listed as the first author on the submitted abstract and POMA manuscript and present the paper at the meeting.
  • submit the POMA manuscript by the competition deadline, which is 30 days after the conclusion of the meeting.

Instructions for Consideration

    Indicate your paper is part of the POMA Student Paper Competition by selecting this article type during the POMA submission process.
  • Ensure the article passes the initial quality check: Please use either the MS Word or LaTeX manuscript templates and follow all manuscript preparation and submission instructions.*Articles that do not pass the initial quality check are ineligible for the competition. See the submission checklist at the POMA Author Resources page.
  • The competition deadline is 11:59 pm Eastern Time, 30 days after the meeting (refer to the meeting page on acousticalsociety.org for the exact date of the current competition). Any manuscripts received after this deadline will be considered for publication in POMA but will be ineligible for the competition.

Selection Process

  • The papers will be rated by the POMA Associate Editor corresponding to the technical area in which the paper was presented. The top rated papers will be evaluated by the POMA Editor, POMA Assistant Editor, and POMA Manuscript Manager and up to five winning papers will be selected. *Note that the paper judging will take place concurrently with the ordinary editorial review of a POMA submission; each judged paper will be returned with comments and a publication decision.
  • Students may receive up to two POMA Student Paper Competition awards over the course of their student enrollment. Students that have received two awards from the competition are encouraged to submit their work to POMA through the standard submission process.
  • Regardless of the competition outcome, the opportunity to publish an editor-reviewed proceedings paper will enhance your CV/resume and help you take an important intermediate step toward a peer-reviewed publication.

Contact

For any additional information, please contact the POMA Editorial Office at [email protected]

Winners

187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America Virtual Meeting 2024
 18-24 November 2024

Architectural Acoustics
A comprehensive dataset of environmental emissions, health, and manufacturing information of building acoustic products in North America
Jonathan Michael Broyles and Wil Srubar III
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 55, 015002 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001997

Architectural Acoustics
An analysis of spatial impulse response measurements and their ability to validate spatial features within acoustic models
John S. Latta and Lauren M. Ronsse
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 55, 015001 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002004

Engineering Acoustics
A low-cost ultrasonic absorption spectrometer mainly using off-the-shelf parts
Michelle R. Crouse, Małgorzata Musial, Jason A. Widegren, Jacob Pawlik, Bryan Bosworth, Nathan Orloff, Aaron Hagerstrom, Angela C. Stelson and Robert Lirette
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 55, 030002 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002003

186th MEETING OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA and the CANADIAN ACOUSTICAL ASSOCIATION - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 13-17 May 2024

Music
A comparison of modeled and measured impedance of brass instruments and their mouthpieces and bells
Miranda Jackson and Gary Scavone
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 54, 035004 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001925

Noise
Flyback sonic booms from Falcon-9 rockets: Measured data and some considerations for future models
Mark C. Anderson, Kent L. Gee and Kaylee Nyborg Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 54, 040005 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001916

Time-varying broadband noise of multirotor aircraft
Ze Feng Gan, Vitor Tumelero Valente, Kenneth Steven Brentner and Eric Greenwood Proc.
Mtgs. Acoust. 54, 040006 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001946

Underwater Acoustics
Effectiveness of standard mitigation technologies at reducing ships’ machinery noise using a small-scale ship-like structure
Marc-André Guy, Kamal Kesour, Olivier Robin, Stéphane Gagnon, Julien St-Jacques, Mathis Vulliez, Raphael Tremblay and Jean-Christophe Gauthier Marquis
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 54, 070001 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001912

Bistatic spatial coherence for micronavigation of a downward-looking synthetic aperture sonar
Kyle S. Dalton, Thomas E. Blanford and Daniel C. Brown
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 54, 070002 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001924

185th MEETING OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA-Sydney, Australia
 4-8 December 2023

Signal Processing
Robust power spectral density estimation via a performance-weighted blend of order statistics
David Campos Anchieta and John R. Buck
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 52, 055006 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001849

Music Acoustics
The emotional characteristics of bass drums, snare drums, and disengaged snare drums with different strokes and dynamics
Zeyu Huang,  Wenyi Song, Xiaojuan Ma and Andrew Brian Horner
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 52, 035005 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001834

Structural Acoustics
Experimental measurements of stress in an Acoustic Black Hole using a laser doppler vibrometer
Archie Keys and Jordan Cheer
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 52, 065003 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001829

Signal Processing
Identification of the parametric array loudspeaker system using differential Volterra filter
 Wenyao Ma, Jun Yang and Yunxi Zhu
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 52, 055005 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001850

Musical Acoustics
A mathematical study about the sustaining phenomenon of overtone in flageolet harmonics on bowed string instruments
Shodai Tanaka, Hiroshi Kori and Ayumi Ozawa
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 52, 035006 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001835

184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Chicago)
8-12 May 2023

Speech Communication
When clear speech does not enhance memory: Effects of speaking style, voice naturalness, and listener age
Nicholas B. Aoki and Georgia Zellou
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 51, 060002 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001766

Architectural Acoustics
Predicting the reverberation time of concert halls by use of a random forest regression model
Jonathan Michael Broyles and Zane Tyler Rusk
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 51, 015004 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001751

Computational Acoustics
A gradient-based optimization approach for underwater acoustic source localization
Dariush Kari and Andrew C. Singer
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 51, 022002 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001753

Musical Acoustics
Examination of the static and dynamic bridge force components of a bowed string
Alessio Lampis, Alexander Mayer, Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà and Vasileios Chatziioannou
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 51, 022002 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001755

Noise
An overview of acoustical measurements made of the Atlas V JPSS-2 rocket launch
Logan T. Mathews, Mark C. Anderson, Carson D. Gardner, Bradley W. McLaughlin, Brooke M. Hinds, Megan R. McCullah-Boozer, Lucas K. Hall and Kent L. Gee
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 51, 040003 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001768

183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Nashville)
5-9 December 2022

Interdisciplinary
Directional passive acoustic structures inspired by the ear of Achroia grisella
Lara Díaz-García, Andrew Reid, Joseph Jackson-Camargo, and James Windmill
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 50, 032001 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001715

Signal Processing
Measuring and Exploiting the Locally Linear Mapping between Relative Transfer Functions and Array deformations
Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan Corey, and Andrew Singer
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 50, 055001 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001707

Noise
Assessment of Computational Fluid Dynamics acoustic prediction accuracy and deflector impact on launch aero-acoustic environment
Mara Salut Escarti-Guillem, Luis M. Garcia-Raffi, Sergio Hoyas, and Oliver Gloth
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 50, 040001 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001716

182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America – (Denver)
23-27 May 2022

Physical Acoustics
Initial comparison of a Falcon-9 reentry sonic boom with other launch-related noise
Jeffrey Taggart Durrant, Mark C. Anderson, Kent L. Gee, Logan T. Mathews, and Grant W. Hart
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 46, 045002 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001579

Musical Acoustics
Modeling musician diffraction and absorption for artificially excited clarinet directivity measurements
Samuel David Bellows and Timothy Ward Leishman
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 46, 035002 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001586

Underwater Acoustics
Simulating elastic targets for sonar algorithm development
Kyle S. Dalton, Thomas E. Blanford, and Daniel C. Brown
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 46, 070002 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001605

Physical Acoustics
Simulation of near-ground signals from a flying source on UAV over a building structure
Jiacheng Hou and Zhongquan Charlie Zheng
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust 46, 045004 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001604

Engineering Acoustics
Sound transmission loss improvement using additively manufactured multimaterial
Trigun Maroo and Andrew Wright
Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 46, 030001 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001609