Keele To Receive TEF Heyser Award

The TEF Advisory Committee named D.B. (Don) Keele as the recipient of the 2001 TEF Heyser Award, presented annually during NSCA Expo. The award recognizes individuals who have worked with Richard Heyser's patents in Time Delay Spectrometry to increase the understanding of acoustical test and measurement and to promote professionalism within the audio industry.

From audio engineering and early TEF instruction to Audio Engineering Society (AES) articles and conference presentations, Keele has contributed copiously through decades of work to our understanding of TDS. His accomplishments are many: He is a frequent contributor to the Journal of the AES, has given numerous presentations at AES meetings, has chaired several AES technical paper sessions, and is a member of the AES review board. He has held a chair on the AES Board of Governors and is former Vice President of the Central Region USA/Canada of the AES.

In addition, Keele has worked with Electro-Voice, Klipsch, JBL, and Crown International in loudspeaker research and development and measurement technology. While at Crown, he was in charge of TEF software where he developed several programs that simplified the use of TEF technology and broadened its use in the application areas such as speech intelligibility and transducer testing. He holds three patents on constant-directivity loudspeaker horns and is currently the principal engineer in the Advanced Development Group at Harman/Becker automotive.

Keele joins an impressive triad of former TEF Heyser Award recipients. Gerald Stanley's work at Crown International transformed TDS from a laboratory curiosity to an effective platform for acoustical measurement. Don and Carolyn Davis contributed to the understanding of TDS with the creation of Syn-Aud-Con and the authorship of the perennial favorite, "Sound System Engineering". Dr. Eugene Patronis chaired the department of physics at Georgia Tech and helped train a generation of audio engineers in the science of TDS.

Blair McNair, Chairman of the TEF Board of Advisors, will present Keele with the award at the JW Davis/Syn-Aud-Con party on the evening of Friday, March 9th at the Rosen Centre Hotel. The tentatively scheduled time for the presentation is 9pm. "I am honored to accept the Heyser Award from the TEF Board of Advisors," said Keele. "One of my most prized experiences occurred when I was returning on a flight from London after attending an AES convention in the early 1980s. Dick Heyser happened to be on the same flight and spent over an hour with me one-on-one

explaining some of the more esoteric aspects of TDS theory. His several pages of handwritten notes, which I kept from that day, are a treasured possession."