CHARLES E.

EBBING

Adjunct Professor Architectural Acoustics Rensselear Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY.

Adjunct Professor Mechanical Engineering Syracuse University Syracuse, NY
President Ebbing Acoustics

Phone: 315-686-3544 or 315-658-2027

20710 Eiss Road
LaFargeville, NY 13656
E-mail: cebbing1@gmail.com

EDUCATION

• Purdue University, BSEE 1957

• Suny/Buffalo, MSEE 1966 (Acoustics)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Stromberg Carlson Corp. 1957-1964

• US Army 1959-61
• Cornell Aeronautical Lab 1965-1967
• Carrier Corp. 1967-1999
• Rensselear Polytechnic Institute 1999
• Syracuse University 2001

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Mr. Ebbing is an Adjunct Professor teaching architectural acoustics at Rensselear Polytechnic

Institute Troy, NY and at Syracuse University Syracuse, NY. He is also President of Ebbing
Acoustics, which does consulting work in Acoustics.

He retired from Carrier Corp in September 1999 where he was a Senior Staff Acoustical
Engineer. He served 14 years as an in-house acoustical consultant on acoustical application of
HVAC products.

Previous to this he was Manager of Advanced Development for Commercial Products for 2
years.

He served for 4 years as Manager Air Terminals Engineering and has first hand experience in
the nuances of acoustical testing and rating of products.

Mr. Ebbing has also served in the Research Division's Acoustics and Noise Control Group for 11
years, where he directed the group’s efforts and associated laboratories . During this time he
gained extensive field experience with all of Carrier's HVAC products.

For many years he has been actively interested in developing and applying practical acoustical
measurement and estimation technology. He has designed and qualified most of the Carrier
acoustical measurement facilities including anechoic, reverberation, and in-duct test facilities.
Early in his career he served as chairman of ASHRAE STD 36-72 Standards Committee, which
later was folded into current ANSI/ISO Reverberation Room Test Standards. He provided much
of the technical input for ARI STDS 575(Chiller Measurement) and was Chairman of ARI 885
(Air Terminal Acoustical Application).
Throughout his career, Mr. Ebbing has been active in providing Acoustical Training Courses
both inside and outside of Carrier Corporation. He has taught applied acoustics courses at RPI,
Syracuse University, Union College, and Penn State and to Carrier Distribution .

He has been an active member of ASHRAE TC 2.6 since 1967 and has served actively on the
ARI Technical Committee on Sound for the same period of time. In the past 26 years he has
made extensive contributions to both ARI and ASHRAE in the research, planning and standards
areas. He made major contributions to all of the existing ARI standards. In ASHRAE he has
served as Chairman of the Long Range Planning Committee where he has helped to set long
range directions and has helped to draft many of the Requests For Proposals that have been
approved for funding by ASHRAE. His 1978 ASHRAE Paper provided the technical basis for
evaluation of the rumble descriptor in the RC rating method and helped to draw ASHRAE
attention to the importance of low frequency HVAC noise problems.

ACOUSTICAL TRAINING EXPERIENCE

• Instructor US Army Ordnance Guided Missile Systems

• Graduate Teaching Assistant SUNY/Buffalo (Acoustics Lab)
• Syracuse University Graduate and Undergraduate Acoustics Courses
• Union College Industrial Noise Control Course
• Penn State Industrial Noise Measurement Course
• ASHRAE Professional Development Course
• Canadian Acoustical Society Short Course
• Carrier Corporation Applied Acoustics Courses
• ALPS ’93-’94 Carrier Distribution Seminars
• ASHRAE and BSS Acoustic Seminars ‘95-98

ACOUSTICAL TECHNICAL WRITING EXPERIENCE :

• Author of the Carrier Applied Acoustics Fundamentals Guide

• Author of the Carrier Rooftop Acoustics Application Guide
• Author of ALPS training CD
• Contributor to ASHRAE Guide
• Author of 20 Technical Guides/Publications

SPECIAL HONORS AND AWARDS:

• Initial Member Institute of Noise Control Engineering

• 1984 UTC Award for Management Effectiveness
• 1991 ARI Schulze Distinguished Service Award for Leadership in Acoustical
Standards
• 1994 ASHRAE Outstanding Service Award
• 1999 ASHRAE Outstanding Service Award
TECHNICAL PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:

1. "Experimental Evaluation of Microphone Traverses in a Reverberant Room",

Presented at the 78th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 7,
1969, San Diego, California, Paper No. TD4.

2. "Use of Mean Squared Pressure Along a Reverberant Room Diagonal for Sound
Power Measurement", Presented at the 79th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, April 21, 1970, Atlantic City, N.J.

3 "State-of-the-art Review of Pure Tone Reverberant Room Qualification", Contributed

paper presented at the Arden House Workshop on Noise Control Engineering,
January 10, 1971.

4. "Experimental Evaluation of Moving Sound Diffusers for Reverberant Rooms", J.

Sound Vib. (1971) 16 (1), 99-118.

5. "Noise Level Specifications for Machines and Equipment", Sound & Vibration,
January 1973.

6. "In-Place Machinery Noise Measurements", ASHRAE Journal, June 1973.

7. "Some Results from an International Sound Power Round Robin on Measurements in

Reverberation Rooms", INTER-NOISE 73 Proceedings.

8. "Reverberation-Room Qualification for Determination of Sound Power of Sources of

Discrete-Frequency Sound", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
Vol.- 54, No. 4, October 1973.

9. "Diagnostic Tests for Locating Noise Sources", NOISE-CON 73 Proceedings,

Washington, D.C., October 1973.

10. "Diagnostic Tests for Locating Noise Sources: Classical Techniques (Part I), Signal
Processing Techniques (Part II)", Noise Control Engineering, July - August
1974.

11. "Modifications Required to Permit Qualification of a 269 cu meter Reverberant

Room", Noise Control Engineering, September October 1976.

12. "Control of Low Frequency Duct-Generated Noise in Building Air Distribution

Systems" (ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 84, Part 2,1978, PG. 191).

13. "Overview of Industry Standard 885", ASHRAE Symposium, JAN 1989

14. "Acoustical Quality", UTC UTECA Conference, May 1990

15. "Setting Realistic New Product Design Goals at the Design Stage", UTC UTECA
Conference, May 1991
16. "HVAC Low Frequency Noise In Buildings "The Times They-Are-A-Changin", Inter-
Noise 92, Pg. 767-770 1992

17. " Criteria for Low-Frequency HVAC System Noise Control in Buildings", Inter-Noise
92, Pg. 761-770 1992

18. "Applied Acoustics Handbook", Carrier Corp., 1993

19. "Rooftop Products Acoustics Application Guide", Carrier Corp., 1993

20. "Avoiding Low Frequency Noise In Packaged HVAC Equipment", ASHRAE

Journal, June 1993

21. "Understanding Manufacturers’ Acoustical Data", ASHRAE Research Project

Book, Feb 1997, Edited by Charles Ebbing and Warren Blazier.