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Ten questions concerning autism and auditory accessibility in buildings Open

Bruno Masiero, Fernanda Caldas-Correia, Samuel H. Underwood, Carmen Rosas-Pérez, Alaa Algargoosh , et al. · 2025

Ten questions concerning the economics of indoor environmental quality in buildings Open

Stefan Flagner, Stefano Schiavon, Nils Kok, Franz Fuerst, Dusan Licina , et al. · 2025

Panel: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Perspectives on Advancing Women and Gender Equity in Engineering - for the Next 130 Years Open

Baishakhi Bose, Haleh Brotherton, Theo Hopper, Pamela Martínez Oquendo, Lily M. Wang , et al. · 2024

In celebration of 130 years of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the Women in Engineering Division (WIED) at ASEE convened a panel of current graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to discuss visions of gender equi…

Ten questions concerning smart and healthy built environments for older adults Open

Sanjay Kumar, Samuel H. Underwood, Julie Masters, Natalie Manley, Iason Konstantzos , et al. · 2023

In the past decade, the term ‘global aging’ has gained much attention among researchers, policymakers, civil societies, and governments worldwide. The continuous decline in fertility rates and increased life expectancy have resulted in an …

Higher Sound Levels in K-12 Classrooms Correlate to Lower Math Achievement Scores Open

Laura C. Brill, Lily M. Wang · 2021

Sound levels from occupied classrooms have been gathered from 220 classrooms across four grade levels (3, 5, 8 and 11) over six school days each and processed with k-means clustering into speech and non-speech clusters. Three metrics descr…

Speech and noise levels measured in occupied K–12 classrooms Open

Lily M. Wang, Laura C. Brill · 2021

This project acquired sound levels logged across six school days and impulse responses in 220 classrooms across four K–12 grades. Seventy-four percent met reverberation time recommendations. Sound levels were processed to estimate occupied…

Understanding Annoyance Perception of Noise with Tones through Multidimensional Scaling Analysis Open

Joon-Hee Lee, Lily M. Wang · 2021

Audible tones in noises can cause negative evaluations of indoor sound quality by increasing listeners' annoyance. Continuous exposure to noise with tones has the potential to affect stress, discomfort and work performance. Building mechan…

How Acoustics in California High Performance Schools Relate to Student Achievement Open

Devin Wong, Joonhee Lee, Lily M. Wang · 2021

This project sought to determine if students at K-12 schools that have received High Performance Incentive (HPI) grants in the state of California in the United States do evidence higher scholastic achievement, based on publicly available …

Acoustic Conditions in Occupied Classrooms Open

Lily M. Wang, Kieren H. Smith · 2021

Sound levels in 220 K-12 classrooms have been logged every 10 seconds during 36-hour periods spanning two occupied school days, at three different times throughout an academic year. The data have been parsed using k-means clustering into t…

Ten questions concerning well-being in the built environment Open

Sergio Altomonte, Joseph G. Allen, Philomena M. Bluyssen, Gail Brager, Lisa Heschong , et al. · 2020

Well-being in the built environment is a topic that features frequently in building standards and certification schemes, in scholarly articles and in the general press. However, despite this surge in attention, there are still many questio…

The Women in Medicine Summit (WiMS): Engaging students to identify and address gender-associated challenges in medicine Open

Flora Jung, Lily M. Wang, Jennifer H. Tang, Sophia Wen · 2020

The Women in Medicine Summit (WiMS) is a novel, student-led conference initiated at the University of Toronto to engage the medical community in a discussion about unique gender-distinctive challenges in medicine. We identified topics inad…

Leveraging ABET Accreditation to Promote Inclusion of Noise Control Engineering Concepts in Engineering Programs Open

Lily M. Wang, Bryan R. Beamer · 2020

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) accreditation is an internationally recognized system ensuring consistency and quality in engineering education programs. As a part of ABET accreditation, there is no set requ…

Exploring the effect of ventilation type on the acoustics of primary and secondary school classrooms Open

Kieren H. Smith, Lily M. Wang · 2019

Investigation of sound level variations in occupied K-12 classrooms Open

Jared Paine, Lily M. Wang · 2017

Sound level data have been logged in 220 K-12 classrooms, as part of an investigation underway at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln on environmental conditions inside occupied classrooms. In each classroom, equivalent sound levels were lo…

How Tonality and Loudness of Noise relate to Annoyance and Task Performance” Noise Control Eng. J. 65(2), 71-82. Open

Joon-Hee Lee, Jennifer M. Francis, Lily M. Wang · 2017

Audible tones in noise generated by building mechanical equipment can be a leading cause of complaints from occupants. A number of metrics have been developed to quantify prominence of a tone, but previous work has shown that the impact of…

ROOM ACOUSTIC EFFECTS ON SPEECH COMPREHENSION OF ENGLISH-AS-SECOND-LANGUAGE TALKERS AND LISTENERS VERSUS NATIVE-ENGLISH- SPEAKING TALKERS AND LISTENERS Open

Lily M. Wang · 2015

Approximately 21% of the children in the United States school system speak a language other than English at home, but are being taught in English at school. English is additionally being used more and more often as a common language in int…

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