The Martin Hirschorn / IAC Prize (Best Paper) is funded with the income from a $100,000 gift given in 1999 by the New York Community Trust, Martin Hirschorn IAC Fund. The prize is awarded in even-numbered years for "The best paper on new and/or improved cost effective noise control and/or acoustical conditioning products as published in the two years preceding the award."

The Martin Hirschorn / IAC Prize (Best Paper) is awarded every other year on even years. The Prize will be next awarded during during NOISE-CON 2022.

Award Recipients

• 2024: Sohei Nishimura, Yuya Nishimura, and Akifumi Tsukamoto
  Improvement of a soundproofing vent hole, NCEJ May-June 2023
• 2022: Michael Rose, B. Dagan Pielstick, Zach Jones, Scott Sommerfeldt, Kent Gee and Scott Thomson
  Case study: Noise reduction of a vacuum-assisted toilet, NCEJ July-August 2020
• 2020: Scott D. Sommerfeldt, Matthew F. Calton, Caleb B. Goates, and David C. Copley
  Modeling acoustic resonators using higher-order equivalent circuits, NCEJ November-December 2019
• 2018: Hugo E. Camargo, Amanda S. Azman, and Lynn Alcorn
  Development of noise controls for longwall shearer cutting drums, NCEJ September-October 2016
• 2016: Anita Gidlöf-Gunnarsson, Evy Öhrström, Tor Kihlman, and Jens Forssén
  Noise responses before and after noise abatement measures in a residential intervention project, NCEJ May-June 2015
• 2014: Franck Pérot, Min-Suk Kim, Vincent Le Goff, Xavier Carniel, Yvon Goth, and Christian Chassaignon
  Numerical optimization of the tonal noise of a backward centrifugal fan using a flow obstruction, NCEJ
• 2012: Dan Palumbo and Jacob Klos, NASA Langley Research Center
  The effects of voids and recesses on the transmission loss of honeycomb sandwich panels, NCEJ
• 2010: Mark A. MacDonald, Jessica Gullbrand, Yoshifumi Nishi, and Eric Baugh, INTEL Corp.
  Notebook blower inlet flow and acoustics: Experiments and simulations, NCEJ
• 2008: Nikola Holecek, Brane Sirok, Marko Hocevar, Rudolf Podgornik and Rok Grudnik, Gorenje and University of Ljubljana in Slovenia
  Reducing the noise emitted from a domestic clothes-drying machine, NCEJ
• 2006: Penelope Menounou, University of Texas at Austin and Jeong Ho You, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Design of a jagged-edge noise barrier: Numerical and experimental study
• 2006: Michael Yang, George Lesieutre, Stephen Hambric, and Gary Koopman, Pennsylvania State University
  Development of a design curve for Particle Impact Dampers, NCEJ
• 2004: Kent L. Gee and Scott D. Sommerfeldt
  A compact, active control implementation for axial cooling fan noise, NCEJ
• 2002: Gerald C. Lauchle and Timothy A. Brungart, Pennsylvania State University
  Modifications of a Handheld Vacuum Cleaner for Noise Control, NCEJ
• 2000: Murray Hodgson
  Scale-Model Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Novel Absorber Treatments for Industrial Noise Control, NCEJ