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Curriculum Vitae:

• Personal Information

C. Walter Beamer IV
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
UCB 428, ECCE 247
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0428
Tel: 303.492.7603
Fax: 303.492.7317
E-mail: walter.beamer@colorado.edu

• Related Experience
  • Senior Associate (Acoustics and Lighting), January 2008 to Present, Shen Milsom Wilke, LLC. – Denver, Colorado
    
  • Senior Associate (Acoustics), May –August 2008, Shen Milsom Wilke, LLC-FZ – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    
  • Acoustics Consultant, 2005 to 2007, Kirkegaard Associates – Boulder, Colorado
    
  • Research Assistant, 2000 to 2005, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado – Boulder, Colorado
    
  • Independent Contractor (Lighting Consultant), 1999 to 2008, Light’n Up – Washington, DC
    
  • Consultant (Lighting Design), 1998 to 1999, Robert Singer & Associates – Aspen, Colorado
    
  • Lighting Intern, May - August 1998, Moran Coventry Lighting Associates – Washington, DC

• Education
  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2005, Thesis: “Acoustic Radiosity: New Methods for Diffuse and Partially Specular Sound Field Prediction”
    
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2003, Thesis: “Measurement and Analysis of RVC Stacks for Thermoacoustic Refrigerators and Prime-Movers”
    
  • B.S., Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998, Emphasis in Illumination

• Professional Affiliations
  • Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA)
    
  • Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
    
  • Institute of Acoustics (IOA)
    
  • International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV)

• Publications
• Muehleisen, R. T. and Beamer, C. W., “Diffuse acoustic radiosity: New methods for sound field modeling”, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 57(3), May-June 2009.

• Muehleisen, R. T., Beamer, C. W., and Tinianov, B. D., “Measurements and empirical model of the acoustic properties of reticulated vitreous carbon”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 117(2), February 2005.

• Muehleisen, R.T., Beamer, C.W., Tinianov, B. D., and Hougland, D. S., "Acoustic and illumination design of conference rooms", Proceedings of the first AEI conference, September 2003.

• Muehleisen, R. T. and Beamer, C. W., “Comparison of errors in the three- and four-microphone methods used in the measurement of the acoustic properties of porous materials”, Acoustic Research Letters Online 3(4), page 112, October 2002.

• Books Reviewed
• Hansler, E. and Schmidt, G., “Acoustic Echo and Noise Control: A Practical Approach”, Review published in the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 12 (1), 2007

• Presentations and Invited Lectures
• “Acoustics for Learning Environments”, Beamer, C. W., Emerging Design Standards for Higher Education Facilities, Presented by Tandus Flooring, Kansas City, MO, May 2010

• “Determination of absorption coefficients for audience seating from in situ measurements”, Gulsrud, T. E., and Beamer, C. W., 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2007

• “Application of acoustic radiosity  methods to noise propagation within buildings”, Muehleisen, R. T. and Beamer, C. W., 150th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005

• “Measurements of the acoustic properties of reticulated vitreous carbon”, Muehleisen, R. T., Beamer, C. W., and Tinianov, B. D., 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC, May 2005

• “A comparison of partially specular radiosity and ray tracing for room acoustics modeling”, Beamer, C. W. and Muehleisen, R. T., 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC, May 2005

• “A comparison of computational models for predicting speech intelligibility and speech privacy”, Muehleisen, R. T. and Beamer, C. W., 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, November 2004

• “Radiant exchange in partially specular architectural environments”, Beamer, C. W. and Muehleisen, R. T., 146th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Austin, TX, November 2003

• “A comparison of radiosity with current methods of sound level prediction in commercial spaces”, Beamer, C. W. and Muehleisen, R. T., Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico, December 2002

• “Acoustic radiosity for computation of sound fields in diffuse environments”, Muehleisen, R. T. and Beamer, C. W., Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico, December 2002

• “Thermoviscous functions of wire mesh and RVC stacks”, Muehleisen, R. T. and Beamer, C. W., 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL, June 2001

• “Comparison of techniques for measuring the acoustic properties of porous materials”, Beamer, C. W. and Muehleisen, R. T., 140th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/NOISE-CON, Newport Beach, CA, December 2000

• Professional Service
  • Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics (TCAA), 2003 - Present

• Research Interests
  • Radiative Transfer, light and sound (Radiosity)
  • Lighting Visualization and Modeling
  • Daylighting
  • Lighting Controls
  • Architectural Acoustics
  • Thermoacoustics
  • Auralization of Architectural Spaces

• Teaching Interests
  • Illumination 1, 2
  • Luminous Radiative Transfer 1, 2
  • Daylighting
  • Luminaire Design
  • Illumination Laboratory
  • Lighting Visualization and Modeling (Computer graphics and lighting simulation)
  • Exterior and Roadway Lighting
  • Architectural Acoustics
  • Room Acoustics
  • Noise Control (For MEP equipment/services)
  • Acoustics Laboratory
  • Environmental Acoustics
  • Architectural Acoustics Modeling ( Ray-tracing, Radiosity, BEM, Modal Analysis of architectural spaces)