First cohort of Acoustics Apprentices complete the taught part of the programme

The first ever Acoustics Technician Apprenticeship cohort in the UK has completed the taught part of their two year programme. The final semester of the taught programme has been led by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina. After sitting their last exams in January 2024, the students will start preparing for the Gateway stage which will lead them to the last part of the programme called End Point Assessment. The whole team wish our acoustics apprentices best wishes for the Christmas holidays and for their next final stage in their apprenticeship.

 

Summing Up 2023

 

We thank you all for your support over 2023. We started the year with two new PhD students who were shortly joined by another two, to bring the group to a full complement. Alec Korchev won the Noise Abatement Society John Connell Rising Star award. Masters' students Patrick Spiers and Colin Arden won the Acoustical Society of America Newman Medal. Egith papers/presentation were given by staff and students at various conferences including ICBEN in Belgrade, Inter-Noise in Tokyo, IOA in Winchester, ASA in Sydney. The Art of Being an Acoustician was run at the Little Ships Club in London with Apprentices, Diploma, Masters and PhD students in attendance. Links with the IOA were strengthened with Diploma students presenting to the January London branch meeting, Leo Fernandex winning the NTi-Audio sponsored prize, with the Masters' students presenting at the July meeting. Dr Aygyn also presented his research at the London May meeting. New equipment was purchased: a B&K Lan XI system and a new 3D printer. Enterpirse activities grew with IOA short course run, Royal Academy of Music collaboration continuing, cooperation with Foster + Partners, and St Paul's Cathedral monitoring project continuing. In 2024 we look forward to submitting two significant EPSRC research grants and two PhD completions. Have a great Christmas from all the team!

Former MSc student Ekim Bakirci joins the Acoustics Group

 

Former Masters student  Ekim Bakirci is joining the Acoustics Group as a PhD student next month. His research topic is, "A low carbon AI based engineering system to monitor environmental noise", an extension of his MSc dissertation in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics. We look forward to welcoming Ekim back to London South Bank University.

ASA/AAS Acoustics Conference 2023

The Acoustical Society of America held their 185th conference in Sydney, Australia. Prof Stephen Dance presented his work on onsite hearing assessment of musicians in the pre-clinical session under the audiology theme. As acousticians like muscican audience engagement was high with very focused questions on the sound exposure of different instruments were answered. The Australians were very friendly, helpful and insightful!