MSc student wins best IoA Diploma prize

Congratulations go to Sarah Large, the winner of the 2010 IOA Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control prize. In achieving merits in all three written papers, laboratory module and project (measuring background noise: the need for STDs), she achieved the highest average mark of all students. Sarah, an acoustic consultant at MAS Environmental attended the course at Colchester Institute. A music graduate from New Hall College, Cambridge University, she is now studying on the 2nd year of the Masters course.

Press release for the Quiet Dental Drill

Welcome to 2011. Let's start the year with a joint press release from King's College, Brunel and LSBU concerning the future development of a new quiet device for dental drill. The college wishes to commercialise the Acoustics Group's research in the form of an MP3 plug-in box to reduce the stress of doing to the dentist! Listen to the interview on BBC Today programme, 10th January 2011

End of 2010 Summary

Thanks for all your support over 2010. The Acoustics Group went from strength to strength, with 20 new students joining the Masters course. We successfully completed two KTP projects and welcomed two new researchers: Luis and Nick to the group. We have strengthened links with industry (Arup, Vanguardia, RBA Acoustics, Capita Symonds, Telent) through guest lectures, scholarships, prizes, consultancy, working groups and facility sharing. The Group gave 11 presentations at three separate conferences with 12 students attending the IoA Ghent conference. Links with the USA have developed with MSc student John Zeman attending the CHRG Summer Institute in Sante Fe, and Steve becoming a member of the Newman committee, thanks to Nick Durup winning a Newman medal.
We are looking forward to 2011 when two researchers are due to complete their PhDs, the ICBEN conference organised by Bridget, and we start a new EPSRC project. Best Wishes for the New Year.

News in the International Sound and Vibration Digest

On the 14th December the International Sound and Vibration Digest produced a news item on the Acoustics Group. The digest is run by the International Insitute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV) based on Auburn, USA. Always good to have some international promotion!

Students' End of Year Drinks

End of year celebrations this week as the first year students on the Masters course in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics enjoy the festivities. Of course these festivities were alcohol based! Well done on getting to the end of term. Next year it'll be your round!

Acoustic Group Researchers 1986-2010

A bit of history... Over the past 25 years the Acoustics Group has employed 21 researchers. These dedicated people together have received 10 doctorates and 2 MPhil awards. We hope the next 25 years will be as fruitful!

CIBSE Journal Article

The next edition of the CIBSE Journal will contain an article on the collaborative research work undertaken on Ashenden House as regards a longitudinal urban wind turbine study. The collaboration between Southwark council, London South Bank University, and Brian Dunlop Associates demonstrated the viability of two types of wind turbine in an urban environment. Thanks to Sandeep for putting the resulting report together