Finite Element and Boundary Methods in Structural Acoustics and Vibration

Noureddine Atalla is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Université de Sherbrooke). He is also a member and past director of GAUS (Group d’Acoustique et de vibration de l’Universite de Sherbrooke). Professor Atalla received an MSC in 1988 from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France) and a PhD in 1991 in ocean engineering from Florida Atlantic University (USA). His core expertise is in computational vibroacoustics and modeling and characterization of acoustic materials. He has published more than 100 papers and is also the co-author of a book on the modeling of sound porous materials.

Franck Sgard

is team leader of the mechanical and physical risk prevention group at the Institut Robert Sauvé en Santé et Sécurité du Travail (IRSST) in Montreal (Canada). He graduated from Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat (ENTPE) in Vaulx en Velin (France) as a civil engineer in 1990. He obtained his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1991. In 1992 and 1993, he worked as a research assistant in the acoustic group of the University of Sherbrooke (GAUS). He then started a joint PhD (University of Sherbrooke/Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon, France) in mechanical engineering (acoustics), which he completed in 1995. From 1995 till 2006, he worked as a professor at ENTPE, teaching acoustics