D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr.
Bio as of Feb. 2008
Don Keele has worked for several companies in the area of loudspeaker R&D and measurement technology including Electro-Voice, Klipsch, JBL, Crown, and Harman. He holds three patents on "constant-directivity" loudspeaker horns, has four patents pending, and is a fellow of AES and a member of ASA. He wrote for Audio Magazine as a Senior Editor performing loudspeaker reviews. More recently, he worked for Harman/Becker Automotive Systems in the advanced technology development group and was a member of the Harman corporate acoustics engineering group working under Floyd Toole. Currently he is back at Harman/Becker working in the simulation and virtual acoustics group.
Mr. Keele holds two BS degrees in EE and physics from California State Polytechnic University and an MSEE degree from Brigham Young University. He has presented and published over 35 technical papers on loudspeaker design and measurement methods and other related topics, among them the paper for which he won the AES Publication Award, "Low-Frequency Loudspeaker Assessment by Nearfield Sound-Pressure Measurement". He is a frequent speaker at AES section meetings and workshops, has chaired several AES technical paper sessions, and is a member of the AES review board. Mr. Keele is a past member of the AES Board of Governors and is past Vice President, Central Region USA/Canada of the AES. Mr. Keele received the TEF Richard C. Heyser Award in 2001. In 2002, he received a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for work he did on cinema constant-directivity loudspeakers.
D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr.’s Specialties:
1. Loudspeaker constant-directivity horn design.
2. Loudspeaker low-frequency system design and enclosures.
3. Loudspeaker constant-directivity/beamwidth array design.
4. Scientific/engineering software development.
5. Loudspeaker measurement software.
6. Loudspeaker Tone burst peak power testing, peak SPL versus frequency, etc.
7. Technical writing.
Experience
Principal Engineer
Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Inc.
(Automotive industry)
2000 — Present (8 years)
Principal Engineer
Harman International
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year)
Sr. Editor, Consumer Loudspeaker Reviews
Audio Magazine
(Media Production industry)
June 1989 — June 2000 (11 years 1 month)
Manager Software Development
Crown International
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
June 1984 — June 1999 (15 years 1 month)
Sr. Transducer Engineer
JBL
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1977 — 1984 (7 years)
Chief Engineer
Klipsch and Associates.
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
May 1976 — June 1977 (1 year 2 months)
Sr. Transducer Engineer
Electro-Voice Inc.
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
January 1972 — May 1976 (4 years 5 months)
Design of vented-box enclosures and drivers. Design of constant-directivity horns.
Education
*
Brigham Young University
MSEE, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Acoustics, 1969 — 1977
*
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
BSEE, BS Physics, Electrical Engr.,Physics, 1965 — 1969
Graduate Brigham Young University, Provo , Utah 1977 MSEE with minor in acoustics in the Physics department.
Additional Information
D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr.’s Interests:
Music, working out, running, loudspeaker design, engineering software design
D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr.’s Groups:
Member and Fellow Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Member Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr.’s Honors:
2001: The TEF Richard C. Heyser Award.
2002: Scientific and Technical Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for work he did on cinema constant-directivity loudspeakers. To John Eargle, Don Keele and Mark Engebretson for the concept, design and engineering of the modern constant-directivity, direct radiator style motion picture loudspeaker systems. The work of John Eargle, Don Keele and Mark Engebretson has resulted in the over-20-year dominance of constant-directivity, direct radiator bass style cinema loudspeaker systems.