Three separate VMI honors theses created this audiology program, demonstrated in this photo by Cole Bowyer, '25, during an interview by Isabelle Ledonne of WDBJ7 News on 22 Jan 2024 shown in this link. The first honors thesis on this topic was completed by William Flathers, '09, who used his work as the research centerpiece for his successful application for a Marshall Scholarship; he was VMI's first awardee. Unfortunately, computation power was too limited at that time to make a software application that was easily used by non-engineers. We waited 14 years for hardware to advance before trying again with Binh Tran, '23, whose mathematical work developing an open-source filter object earned him the first-place undergraduate research prize for electrical engineers in the IEEE Region 3 (there are 6 regions in the US). The project concluded with Cole's work, who combined the research efforts of Will and Binh into a freely-available program that families of hearing impaired children may use. He plans to publish his results in the IEEE Potentials journal, with an international circulation of over 90,000 printed copies.

You may download the program for free here.