Article written by MVCC Professor Jim Fiore to be included in Hearing Health Magazine

UTICA, NY (11/03/2010)(readMedia)-- Mohawk Valley Community College Professor Jim Fiore, of Marcy, has published an article in the Fall 2010 issue of Hearing Health Magazine. The article is entitled The Four Components of Sound and details how humans perceive and categorize sound based on attributes such as pitch and loudness. Hearing Health Magazine is produced by the Deafness Research Foundation.

Professor Fiore has taught electrical circuits and electronics courses at MVCC for nearly 30 years. He recently developed and teaches the natural science elective Science of Sound and authored a text book entitled Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits, now in its second edition, and uses it to teach the class of the same name. He holds an Associate in Applied Science in Electrical Technology from MVCC, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering Technology, and a Master of Science in Computer and Information Systems from SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. He also studied Music at Cortland State University.

He has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society for more than 30 years, and has developed commercial audio software including a loudspeaker CAD system and an audio waveform editor and analyzer.

He is also an avid runner and musician.