Third CAETS forum on worldwide product noise emissions

his forum was a follow-up to the 2008 June CAETS workshop on the design of low-noise vehicles for air, road, and rail transportation that was held at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, U.K., and the 2009 August CAETS forum on global noise sources other than transportation that was held during INTER-NOISE 2009 in Ottawa, Canada. The Forum was held on 2010 June 14-16 at the Conference Centre in Lisbon, Portugal in conjunction with INTERNOISE 2010. Sponsors of the meeting were the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (RAEng), and the National Academy of Engineering, US (NAE). Tor Kihlman and Philip Nelson were general co-chairs representing national academies in Sweden (IVA) and the United Kingdom (RAEng), respectively. William Lang represented the NAE, and acted as Forum Secretary.