Summer Undergraduate Research or Internship Experience in Acoustics

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) will be running a 12-week PAID summer undergraduate research program for students interested in the area of Acoustics. This intensive summer program in acoustics is designed for under-represented undergraduate students from across the country.

This program will emphasize training, mentoring, research, and preparing students for graduate studies & careers in acoustics.

SURIEA Student FAQ Webinar

Jan 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM (Eastern)

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is the premier international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,000 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world’s leading journal on acoustics), Acoustics Today magazine, books, and standards on acoustics. The society also holds two major scientific meetings each year.

• Currently enrolled as an undergraduate student in a 2- or 4-year institution, including community and tribal colleges.
• Applicant’s race/ethnicity should be one of the following underrepresented groups: Black/African American, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Alaska Native, Hispanic or Latino/a.
• At least 18 years old at the start of the program.
• Interested in acoustics.
• U.S. citizenship is required for all candidates.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. without restriction.

• Approximately 30-40 hours per week between May 18 – Aug 9, 2025. (The core program is May 25 – Aug 1). The final week will have only virtual meetings.
• Weekly cohort meetings conducted virtually during the summer. Assistance with remote connection can be provided if needed.
• Participate in an upcoming ASA meeting. Registration fees waived by the SURIEA program and up to $600 in travel funds provided.

2024 Cohort

• Evaluating the Relationship Between Print Speed and Acoustic Performance in Additively Manufactured Parts
• Medical Communication: The role of hospital noise on speech intelligibility
• Audio-Visual Consonant-in-Noise Recognition in Spanish-English Late Bilingual and English Monolingual Adults
• Naturalistic Multimodal interactions: can the ventriloquist illusion be produced in an open environment?
• The Key to Clarity: Uncovering the Role of Psychosocial Factors in Cochlear Implant Success
• Simulating Impulse Responses of Warner Theatre's Rehearsal Room through a T30-Calibrated Auralization
• Synchronizing Rotational and In-Plane Control Systems to Measure the Radiation of an Acoustic Source
• Advancing Emotion Recognition of Audio: Testing and Verifying Machine Learning Techniques for Speech and Music
• Echoes of Impact: Unraveling Sonic Booms with Sound Absorption Ray Tracing
• Send the important stuff back: An innovative approach to on-board stream processing for remotely deployed passive acoustic monitoring systems

2023 Cohort

• Bending Beams: Effects of Infill Pattern and Density on 3D Printed Beams
• Free Field Vowel Identification Study
• Evolution of Ray Tracing in Sonic Booms
• Hearing Loss: A Computational Model
• Architectural Acoustics: Building Around Sound
• Integrating Programming Methods into Ecological Acoustic Analysis
• Listening Effort in Cochlear Implants
• Architectural Acoustics
• Ultrasonic Characterization of Bulk Ceramics

2022 Cohort

• Interning at Bose
• How does speech degrade by face masks effect bilingual speech perception?
• Calibration of Mobile Phones for Collecting Noise Data
• Implementing a real-time PAM imaging system using ex-vivo human vertebrae and microbubbles
• Acoustic Consulting: A Crash Course
• Videos that alter the pleasantness of sounds
• Interning at Threshold Acoustics
• The Doppler Ultrasound twinkling artifact on crevices etched on Silicon wafer.
• Acoustic Alternations and Emphasized Pitches of Hawaiian Humpback Whales
• Uncovering Social Identifiers Inherent in Speech Signal

2021 Cohort

• Frequency changes in humpback whale song units in response to boat noise
• Chiller Compressor Sound Emission Analysis
• Analysis of Arterial Wall Pulsation in Ultrasound Imaging
• Observed Changes in Pupil Dilation and Corresponding Subjective-Ratings of Sensitivity, Annoyance, and Exposure to Noise
• Ship Detection from Passive Underwater Acoustic Recordings Using Machine Learning
• Auralization in Room Acoustics
• HeARS: A Mobile Application Based Speech in Noise Screener
• Amplitude Modulation Fusion Experiment
• Experience as Trane Employee and Assigned Projects
• Ambeo VR Microphone Auralization
• Cross cultural infant directed speech in depressed mothers: Spanish vs English speaking mothers
• Automatic Vowel Space Measurement with Children
• Bubble Cloud Simulation
• Modeling Ultrasonic Beam Scattering in Heterogeneous Solids
• Threshold and the Consultation Process

The full application can be viewed here, however students must apply using the online application.