Sound Package Materials for Vehicle Applications and More
Date: Thursday May 13, 2027
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:45 PM
Price: $900 per student, includes coffee and lunch
Instructor: Dr. Pranab Saha, INCE Bd. Cert, INCE Fellow/SAE Master Instructor
Overview:
The one-day short course provides an understanding of diferent sound package materials that are used in vehicles (including passenger vehicles, heavy trucks, and of highway vehicles) and how they reduce the noise in vehicles. The course defines three diferent types of acoustical materials: absorbers, barriers, and dampers, explains their diferences, and discusses the factors that are critical for improving the performance of these materials. The course starts with the fundamentals of NVH and sound quality related to sound package materials and discusses ways to evaluate the acoustical performance of these materials using diferent test methods, including material, component, and vehicle level measurements. This short course is an intermediate level course and designed to make participants familiar with sound package materials from the application viewpoint.
Topics Covered
- Various descriptors that are used in NVH and sound quality while working with sound package materials for vehicles
- Three fundamentally diferent sound package materials that are used in ICE and EVs
- Descriptors of these diferent materials and how they are diferent from each other
- How these materials work and how their performance can be improved
- How these materials perform in an application
- Various standards and test methods to determine the performance of these
- Discussions on component level and vehicle level measurements
Who Should Attend
This academy will be especially valuable for engineers and other technical staf members who address NVH in passenger cars and autonomous vehicles, light trucks, heavy trucks, of-highway vehicles, farm machinery, small planes, personal watercraft, and rail transit vehicles.
About the Author:
Dr. Pranab Saha, INCE Bd. Cert, INCE Fellow — Author / Presenter
With over 40 years of engineering and consulting experience, Dr. Pranab Saha is recognized worldwide as an authority in automotive noise, body interior systems, and sound package materials. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Kolano and Saha Engineers, Inc in 1987and led automotive, commercial and of-highway vehicles, and other transportation systems until the company’s closure in 2023. He is retired, but works with K&S Engineers LLC, on an as need basis. Dr. Saha instructed training seminars for various OEM companies and their suppliers worldwide. He authored a book: Acoustical Materials – Solving the Challenge of Vehicle Noise which has also been translated to Chinese. He also helped develop an SAE document on how to write an SAE technical paper. He is an active member of various professional organizations including INCE-USA and SAE International, and also the past contributing editor of Sound and Vibration magazine. Dr. Saha received the 2021 SAE International Medal of Honor as well as the 2021 SAE International Ralph K. Hillquist NVH Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an SAE Master Instructor, INCE-USA Board Certified Member, INCE-USA past Director, and a Fellow Member of INCE-USA, SAE International, and ESD.