June 28, 2023
Re: Named Award
The Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE) has named an award after Nancy Timmerman. This was announced at their meeting in Grand Rapids last month. She was honored for being their first woman president, board certified, fellow and having served on their board for many years.
Born in Chicago, she is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and MIT in Cambridge, MA. With an interest in acoustics and noise control, her degrees are in Engineering and Ocean Engineering. She is also a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, the Vibration Institute, and the National Council of Acoustical Consultants. She has served on the boards of INCE and AES. She has also had leadership roles in the ASA where she is a fellow.
She is a Professional Engineer in Massachusetts and Board Certified INCE. During her engineering career, she worked for Shure Brothers (intern), Stone & Webster, doing power plant noise control, Bolt Beranek and Newman doing sonar, Massport doing noise monitoring and abatement, and after 9/11 independent consulting.
She has lived in the South End of Boston since 1975. She took a summer class at New England Conservatory in piano. She is also a member of American Guild of Organists, the Society for the History of Technology, the South End Historical Society, and Alpha Gamma Delta. She is also a pianist, swimmer, singer, organist and seamstress. As an engineer, she is able to use tools. She is the mother of two children who both graduated from the Boston Latin School and have college degrees.
Congratulations to our Member, Nancy Timmerman!
