Patricia Davies Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Courtesy Appointment: Professor, Psychological Sciences Contact Information: Ray W. Herrick Labs Purdue University Room 2004, HLAB Building 177 S. Russell St. West Lafayette IN 47907-2099 U.S.A. Phone: +1 765-494-9274 Herrick Labs. Students, Faculty and Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC) outside the newly opened HLAB Building in Fall 2014.	Purdue Group and Laboratory Affiliations: Ray W. Herrick Laboratories (Director: 2005-2019) Systems, Measurements and Controls Dynamics and Vibrations Acoustics and Noise Control Human-Machine Interaction Task Force on Euqity, Anti-Racism & Inclusion Women Faculty in Engineering Committee Research Interests:  Signal processing and data analysis System identification  Modeling of viscoelastic materials Nonlinear modes in structures Seat-occupant dynamics Condition monitoring/Fault Detection Sound perception and sound quality Perception-based engineering Impact of Noise (e.g., Health Effects, Annoyance, Sleep Disturbance, etc.) Research Sponsors (Current and Past): Ford Motor Company, Cummins, Carrier, Midea, John Deere, Caterpillar. ASHRAE, AFRL, ARO, NSF, FAA/NASA/Transport Canada PARTNER CoE, Standards Activities: ANSI/ASA Working Group 51 ANSI/ASA S3.4 ISO Loudness Standards 532 - Parts I,II and III. ECMA TC26 - Acoustics	Links to Web Sites: Ray W. Herrick Labs established in 1958 to do industrially relevant graduate student-based research. School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue College of Engineering at Purdue Purdue University Links to Societies of Interest: Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE) International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE) Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Noise Control and Acoustics Division Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Society of Women Engineers (SWE) National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Selected Society Activities, Honors and Awards: INCE-USA President 2008-2010 INCE-USA Past President 2010-2012 I-INCE VP for Technical Activities 2018-2023 Violet Haas Award (Purdue 2019) College of Engineering Mentorship Award (Purdue 2018) Fellow of the ASA (2017) and INCE/USA (2014) Per Bruel Gold Medal (ASME 2016)
Degrees: B.S. Department of Mathematics  University of  Bristol, UK.  '77 M.S. Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, UK.  '81 Ph.D. Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, UK. '85 Classes: ME 57900: Fourier Methods in Digital Signal Processing Next offering Spring 2023 (taught by Yangfan Liu). Sometimes also available to off-campus students through Purdue Engineeering Online. Purdue Engineering Online Courses EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service ME36500: Measurement Systems ME27400: Dynamics Short Courses: Digital Signal Processing Sound Quality	Conference Organization: Sound Quality Symposiums: SQS98 (Ypsilanti), SQS02 (Dearborn), Produce Sound Quality 2002 (Ypsilanti), SQS 2008 (Dearborn) Noise-Con 1988 (Purdue), 2005 (Minneapolis), 2013 (Denver), 2020 (New Orleans), 2022 (Lexington), 2024 (New Orleans) Inter-Noise 2009, Inter-Noise 2021 (Washington, DC), [Young Professionals Activities, Inter-Noise Congresses 2018-2023] Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Indianapolis, Fall 2014 Upcoming Conferences of Interest: 26th International Compressor, 20th Refrigeration & 7th High Performance Buildings Conferences July 15-18, 2024. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. NoiseCon 2023 A Joint Conference with SAE and TRB May 15-18, 2023. Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Internoise 2023 August 20-23, 2023. Chiba, Japan. 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America: 5-9 December, 2022, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2022 24-28 October, 2022. Gyeongju, Korea.