Public Address Systems Thesis Submitted

PhD Candidate Luis Gomez has finished his doctoral thesis entitled, "The design and optimisation of voice alarm systems for Underground Stations". His viva will be this autumn and we wish him luck!

300 more Royal Academy Students Tested

The Acoustics Group has just completed their 6th year of audiometric tests for the Royal Academy of Music. We now have measured 2000 classical musicians! Many thanks to the team

New 6 channel Svantek Vibration Meter

A new 6 channel Svantek vibration meter has been purchased for the urban wind turbine research project. This equipment will allow the simultaneous tri-axial vibrations to be monitored above and below the mounting systems. The data will be compared to anemometry to calculate dynamic load on the structure and urban wind turbines.

ISVR Advanced Course on Noise Control

On the 13th and 14th September 2012, ISVR held their Advanced Course on Noise Control. For the 10th year Dr Stephen Dance presented his work on room acoustic simulation - I promised Phil Joseph it had changed just a little bit over the course dinner!

Royal Academy of Music Seminars

For the 6th year the Acoustics Group gave a series of acoustics lecturers to the students of the Royal Academy of Music, 5-6th September 2012. The talks were targeted towards the 4 main instrument groups to raise awareness of the music induced hearing loss. Now all we have to do is hearing tests for all 330 new students!

Peter Mapp receives British Standard Institute Award

On the 4th September 2012, PhD student Peter Mapp was nominated and awarded the prestigious IEC 1906 Award in recognition of his excellent contribution to for outstanding contribution to the Technical Sub Committee responsible for Speech Intelligibility standards, the subject of his doctoral research. He will receive the award on 1st November at the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Well done Peter!