AcSoft demonstrates Svantek kit at South Bank

John Shelton of AcSoft demonstrated the latest Svantek Noise and Vibration meters, the 958 in particular, on Friday 23rd May 2008. Ken Rotter and Stephen Dance were suitably impressed by the meter's capabilities.

6 new logging sound level meters

Next year's acoustics' students will each be able to play / learn a new data logging sound level meter, downloading the results to their laptops, which they must program to calculate LAeq, LN, max, min values etc! Sounds like fun:)

A new environmental sound level meter

The Acoustics Group have recently purchased a new environmental sound level meters. Its a type 2 unit, but it has limited abilities. The students will learn its limits!

Peter Mapp presents to the Acoustics Group

On 29th April Peter Mapp gave a well received seminar on speech intelligibility to the Acoustics Group. This kept Peter off his phone for 2 hours.!Many questions were answered, unfortunately many more arose. That's research!

Acoustics Group purchase Extech Noise Alert System

The Acoustics Group have purchased a Extech Noise Alert system for use by the Royal Academy of Music. We hope the music students take notice of the sign!

IoA Diploma students can save a year on MSc in Acoustics

Recent Institute of Acoustics Postgraduate Diploma students can now save up to a year when joining the MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics. The Master qualification will then allow Chartership to be awarded by the Engineering Council in only 1 additonal year (part-time), assuming suitable industrial experience has been obtained. This scheme will be rolled out from September 2008 apply now

The Royal Academy of Music Noise Team present at Playsafe

The Royal Academy of Music Noise team presents at the Institute of Acoustics Playsafe seminar. Martin outlined risk assessment, Steve presented the results and Georgia answered the questions on noise exposure of classical music students. An excellent collaboration between JEM Safety, RAM and LSBU- Acoustics.