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
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Picture of New Herrick Building
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:
Links to Societies of Interest:

Selected Society Activities, Honors and Awards:
Degrees: Classes:
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.