Masters students present at IOA London Branch

On the 20th July 2016, three Masters students presented their work to the Institute of Acoustics London branch. Doug Shearer presented on low frequency absorption, Simon Brown on physical scale modelling using 3-D printing, and Andrew Steele closed things up with his talk on a new 3-D printed design for a omni-directional sound source. Then, at the kind invitation of Vanguardia, the full house enjoyed the hospitality of the Knights Templar.

Geoff Leventhall visit our labs

On the 18th July 2016 Dr Geoff Leventhall visited London South Bank University to help undertake an experiment on reversing alarms in our anechoic chamber. Geoff was our Head of Department more than 25 years ago, yet he is still doing research! Acousticians go on longer!

Abstract submitted to Acoustical Society of America 2016

On the 11th July 2016, Dr Stephen Dance, Simon Brown and Carl Ruegger submitted an abstracted to the 5th Joint Acoustical Society of America and Japanese Acoustical Society. The meeting will be held in Honolulu, USA between 28th November and the 2nd December 2016. The abstract was based on the Masters dissertation of Simon Brown and the cheap acoustics project of Carl Ruegger and is entitled,"Absorption characteristics of micro-perforated panels using scale modelling and Microflown impedance gun". Now who wants to go...

End of Year Celebrations

On the evening of the 5th July 2016 Dr Stephen Dance invited lecturers/guest speakers for dinner and drinks in thanks of their work over the course of the year on the acoustics MSc and IOA Diploma. So special thanks go to Salih Hassan, Ken nMarriott, Dr Bob Peters and Dr Lorenzo Morales for all their contributions to our courses. 

PhD student Gizem Okten presents

On the 5th July 2016 PhD candidate Gizem Okten presented her research on Opera Singers at the Institute of Acoustics Musical Acoustics Meeting. Her paper was entitled, "Effects of room acoustics on Vocal Loading of Opera Singers". The presentation summarised her PhD research work and was well received by the attentive audience. Well done Gizem!

Institute of Acoustics Musical Group meeting

On the 5th July 2016, London South Bank University hosted the Institute of Acoustics Musical Acoustics Group. The one day symposium entitled, "Current developments in Musical Acoustics", covered a range of topics- piano building, singing, modelling strings, concert shells and organs. The highlight was Alan Taylor demonstrating a reconstruction of Sabine's sound generating device used at Harvard to measure room acoustics of Fogg Lecture Hall.  An excellent meeting !

Mateusz Garbala wins ANC Prize

At the annual 2016 Association of Noise Consultants conference LSBU student  Mateusz Garbala received the ANC prize. The prize is for best Institute of Acoustics Diploma project prize. Mat's was on Noise exposure on London Underground. We all wish Mat well with his career in acoustics.

ANC Conference 2016

On the 29th June 2016 the Association of Noise Consultants held their annual conference at the Crowne Plaza, Birmingham. Dr Stephen Dance was lucky enough to act as one of the competition judges. Helen Czerski gave an enthusiastic guest speaker, talking about bubbles... Champagne bubbles my favourite kind!

Andrew Steele wins the 1st Acoustics Cup!

Philip Robinson of Fosters + Partners awarded the acoustics winner of the inaugural Building Services and Acoustics Design Show. This year Andrew Steele won the beautiful gold trophy for his small lightweight 3-D printed dodec loudspeaker, designed to fit in an overhead flight locker. In development are two new designs of the speakers which further improve the design! Well done Andy!

Acoustics End of Year Show 2016

Thanks for all the students to coming to the 2nd Building Services and Acoustics End of Year Show, held at the new LSBU Student Centre. The students presented their project work to Philip Robinson of Fosters + Partners, 3 minutes each to determine the winner. Philip was impressed by both the cheap acoustics prototype devices  and the dissertation work. Drinks all round!