Title

Principal Engineer

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Cum Laude), Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ 1963

Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Newark College of Engineering, Newark NJ 1967

Professional Experience

Mr. Miller has been Principal Engineer of NU Laboratories since January 1987. In this capacity, he functions as a lead engineer, completing projects from initial client contact to final report. This includes proposal preparations, noise measurement and analysis, design of noise control concepts, and production of installation specifications. Mr. Miller is also our finite element expert using "ALGOR" to design and verify the structural capacity of fixtures for shock testing.

In 1970, Mr. Miller was a founding partner of Donley, Miller and Nowikas, Inc., Consulting Acoustical Engineers, East Hanover, NJ. As corporate Vice President, Mr. Miller was responsible for the efficient and technically competent management of the company.

Working with the late Walter Nowikas, Mr. Miller developed the Industrial Noise Exposure Analysis technique. This analysis combines carefully detailed sound level information with each employee's actual long term work pattern, and provides for the client a comprehensive evaluation of potential over exposure to noise for each employee, as defined by the regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Mr. Miller has also had extensive experience in environmental and community noise work, including highway and airport impact statements, and determining statistical noise levels at construction sites to establish noise reduction requirements for buildings.

From 1969 to 1970, Mr. Miller was Project Manager with Hearing Conservation, Inc., where he was responsible for the administration and completion of projects, including design, analysis, data acquisition and reduction, and report writing. The projects undertaken included determining employee noise exposure, architectual design and evaluation of auditoriums and classrooms, radio studio design, muffler design, and design of an audiometric test van.

Mr. Miller was employed as a Senior Engineer by Goodfriend-Ostergaard Associates, Consulting Engineers in Acoustics, Cedar Knolls, NJ from 1967 to 1969. In this capacity he worked on projects in the general areas of noise and vibration measurement, industrial and community noise control, product noise control, architectual acoustics, and structural design. He also prepared and taught a short industrial course on noise measurement and control.

From 1962 to 1967, Mr. Miller was a Project Engineer with the Singer Company, Central Research Laboratory, Denville, NJ. Here he was responsible for the dynamic analysis of linkage systems for industrial sewing machines, analysis of sources in electric hand tools, the selection of instrumentation for laboratory facilities, and long range planning of noise and vibration studies.

During 1961 and 1962, Mr. Miller was a Design Engineer with the Engineering and Construction Division of Union Carbide International Company, NY, NY, where his duties were primarily in the field of industrial engineering consisting of routine control of field construction work both from the budgetary and progress standpoint.

Mr. Miller worked as a Draftsman from 1954 to 1961 in the Linde Company Development Laboratory Division of Union Carbide Corporation, Newark, NJ. In this position he was responsible for developmental and working drawings of gas regulators, gas process control equipment, heavy machinery and welding equipment. He also assisted the Plant Engineer in layout of laboratory equipment, machinery and files.

Mr. Miller spent his military service in the Philippine Island in 1953 and 1954 with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He worked as a survey crew rodman and topographical computer analyst doing survey work necessary for the production of topographical maps.

Society Memberships

Member- Institute of Noise Control Engineers

Member-Acoustical Society of America

Member-American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Member-National Society of Professional Engineers

Member-New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers; Past President of Morris County Chapter NJSPE

Papers

"Machine Noise Analysis and Reduction", Sound and Vibration, March 1967.

"Industrial Noise Control and Sense", (with Bruce Fader), Sound and Vibration, September 1977.

"Industrial Noise Control: Putting It All Together", Noise Control Engineering, July-August, 1977.