ECE Ph.D Awardee Wins Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics

ECE Ph.D awardee John Butler was named the recipient of the Acoustical Society of America's Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics for advancing the field of acoustic transducer and transducer array design.

Dr. Butler is Chief Scientist at Image Acoustics, Inc., in Cohasset. His interests include the development of new and improved transducer designs. Acoustic transducers convert electrical signals to acoustic signals and vice versa.

He received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and worked at Parke Mathematical Labs, Massa Products, and Raytheon Company before establishing Image Acoustics, Inc.

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