Steve Mowry is our senior engineer. He has been designing transducers for the audio industry since 1995.

Steve Mowry was born in Pawtucket, RI, USA (birthplace of the USA’s Industrial Revolution) on May 21, 1950. He is the oldest of the five (5) children of Margaret and Anthony Mowry of Rumford, RI, USA. Steve attended grades 1 to 9 at St. Leo School in Pawtucket and grades 10 to 12 at St. Raphael Academy also in Pawtucket. In 1975 Steve obtained a BS Degree in Business Administration with a final GPA of 2.55/4.00 from the Evening Division of Bryant College in Smithfield, RI, USA while working as a delivery driver for UPS. In 1990 after attending Rhode Island Community College in the evening for about two and one half years and maintaining a 4.00/4.00 GPA, he resigned from UPS to pursue and obtain BS and MS Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI, USA with Highest Distinction, 3.71/4.00 and 3.72/4.00 final GPA’s respectively.

Steve Mowry began his professional transducer-engineering career in 1995 at BOSE Corp. in Framingham, MA, USA as an R&D Engineer III within the Transducer Group (TRES). At BOSE, Steve was initially responsible for supporting the OEM Division whose customers included GM, Nissan, Honda, VW, Mazda, and IBM. After a reorganization of the Transducer Group at BOSE in 1996, Steve was reassigned to support the Component Audio (Home Theater & Hi-Fi) Division.

In 1998, Steve joined TC Sounds, an OEM subwoofer and competition car audio transducer manufacturer in San Diego, CA, USA as Chief Engineer. That company supplied transducers to ECLIPSE F10, SunFire, Kove Audio and several small companies that distributed after market transducers and systems. Steve left for Asia in 1999 to work as Manager of R&D for EASTEC, a medium sized OEM transducer and system manufacturer in Sungai Petani, in northern Malaysia. There, Steve supported transducer Design and Development for customers including Philips, RCA/Thompson, Polk Audio, JBL, and several smaller companies marketing systems internationally. Then in 2000, Steve joined P. Audio Systems in Bangkok within the A-TON Acoustics Group as Director of Engineering. After his contract expired in 2002, he decided to start S. M. Audio Engineering.

Now with more than seven years of experience working independently with clients utilizing transducer and system manufacturing facilities within Asia, Europe, and the USA, Steve has come to know that computer modeling including FEA and KLIPPEL acquisitions along with technical engineering services are not the only elements of effective new transducer and system development projects. He practices and utilizes Concurrent Engineering (CE); Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA); Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA); Quality Function Deployment (QFD); and Design of Experiments (DOE) or Taguchi's Methods as development project management tools.

For more detailed information, you can read Steve's Resume. You can contact Steve at steve@s-m-audio.com.