Noise Control and Acoustics (NCA), an original forum whose seeds were planted at the ASME Winter Annual Meeting (WAM) in December 1979, was officially approved as a national Group on March 16, 1980. On November 19, 1981, less than two years later, during the WAM at Washington, D.C., NCA attained full Division status in the ASME technical family. NCA is the 32nd Technical Division of the ASME. It is part of the Council of Engineering's Environment and Transportation Technical Group. Other Divisions in the Group include Aerospace, Rail Transportation, Environmental Control, and Solid Waste Processing.

The general objective of the NCA Division is to establish a program within ASME which will encourage, focus and further the development and application of noise control and acoustics principles to mechanical engineering. The Division intends to serve its members who represent various disciplines within ASME as well as other organizations. The program will also provide a balance between the theoretical studies of acoustics and its applications in terms of noise control engineering.

The NCA Division is managed by an executive and general committee. The latter is further divided into administrative and technical committees. The technical committees represent the many interests of mechanical engineers in the field of noise control and acoustics, and are crucial to the long range success of the Division.