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Timothy W. Leishman
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office N247 ESC
Phone (801) 422-1748
Lab Phone (801) 422-2230
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Schedule
Office Hours W 1:00-1:50 p.m., other times by appointment
Research Meetings Acoustics Research Group (ARG): Th 11:00-11:50 a.m., C261 ESC (Fall and Winter Semesters)
Enclosure, Source, and Energy Subgroup: M 3:00-3:50 p.m., S334 ESC
Loudspeaker Extended Modeling Subgroup: T 10:25-10:50 a.m., N247 ESC
Psychoacoustics Subgroup: T 1:00-1:25 p.m., N247 ESC
Regular Polyhedron Loudspeaker Subgroup: TH 10:25-1:50 a.m., N247 ESC
Instrument Directivity Subgroup: TH 1:00-1:50 p.m., N247 ESC
Assignments Devotional/Forum: T 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Research
Group Acoustics
Specialty Excitation, measurement, modeling, and control of sound fields; audio acoustics, architectural acoustics, active noise and vibration control, energy-based acoustics, and acoustical measurements.
Research Site http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/acoustics/
Projects
Advanced Modeling and Measurement of Loudspeakers
Directivity of Live Acoustic Sources
Energy-Based Acoustical Measurements
Modeling, Design, Construction, and Measurement of Quasi-Omnidirectional Sources of Sound
Background
Tim Leishman received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Brigham Young University in 1990 and a Ph.D. in acoustics from Penn State University in 2000. His research at Penn State focused on active control of sound transmission through partitions. Before, during, and after his formal education, he worked in industry as a sound system operator, installer, designer, consultant, and audio acoustics researcher. Between 1992 and 1996 he worked as an independent acoustical consultant. From 1997 to 2000 he worked as a senior acoustical researcher for Crown International (now the Crown Audio division of Harman International). From 2000 to the present, he has been a professor and researcher at BYU. He enjoys sharing his experience in and enthusiasm for acoustics, audio, and active control with his students. His former students have been employed as researchers, university professors, acoustical consultants, loudspeaker designers, headphone designers, audio system designers, hearing aid designers, acoustic systems engineers, noise and vibration control engineers, and entrepreneurs.
 
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