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Ronald N. Miles is an electric engineer and distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Binghapton University, where he has worked since 1989, occupying directive administrative positions, and performing computer-analyzed acoustics and airborne acoustic perception research, often utilizing insect species including hoppers, spiders and the nocturnal fly Ormia ochracea. Such studies have given basis to innovative biomimetic proposals for special microphones and other sound detection/amplifying devices. Some of this research is presentend in his book Physical Approach to Engineering Acoustics.