IOA LSBU DIPLOMA COHORT AT BS 4142:2014 LONDON MEETING

On the 8th February 2018 the IOA Diploma LSBU students cohort attended with course director Luis Gomez-Agustina the one day meeting on BS 4142:2014 organised by the IOA and held at London South Bank University. The engaging event was extremely educational hearing from the authors of this standard and witnessing the discussions that will shape the next version of this highly popular British Standard. Good questions and suggestions were heard from current and past LSBU acoustics students.

Abstract accepted for Inter-Noise 2018

Dr Stephen Dance has had his abstract accepted for Inter-Noise 2018 to be held in Chicago in August 2018. The paper is joint with former PhD student Ben Dymock and is entitled, "Noise and Vibration from Urban Wind Turbines". We hope you can join us in the windy city!

Four Abstracts Accepted for Acoustics 2018

The Acoustics Group have submitted four abstracts to the Institute of Acoustics annual conference. This year Cardiff will host the event 23-24 April 2018. Two papers have student involvement from the Diploma and Masters course covering ground borne vibration from the tube (Jerry Rees/Luis Gomez) and singing in choral rehearsal spaces (Samantha Liu/Stephen Dance). In addition Professor Shield has written two abstracts on her work on the acoustics of schools. Hope to see you in Cardiff!

Welcome to the club Dr Durup!

PhD Candidate Nick Durup successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled, "An investigation into the effects of classroom acoustics on teachers' voices". The examiners Dr Stephanie Martin and Dr Bob Peters were highly complimentary on the quality of the research. Thanks should go to Sharps Redmore Partnership for supporting Nick in his studies and to the supervisory team of Dr Dance and Prof Shield on there efforts to steer the research to their successful conclusion. Well done Dr Durup!! 

Abstract accepted for Euronoise 2018 in Crete

An abstract of a paper written by LSBU MSc Acoustics student Jerry Rees and project supervisor Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina has been recently accepted by Euronoise 2018 conference. The paper is entitled “Assessment of Ground-borne Vibration from Underground Trains on a Proposed Residential Development” and will be published and presented at the Euronoise 2018 conference to be held in Crete (Greece) on 27- 31 May 2018. We hope you’ll enjoy the read in May

Luis elected full member of IOA London Branch

At the  2018 Annual General Meeting of the London Branch Committee held on 18 Jan 2018 at WSP (Chancery Lane),  Luis Gomez-Agustina was elected full member of the committee upgrading from co-opted member. This post is of 3 year term. The committee formed mostly by senior acoustics consultants, manages the largest and most active IOA branch in UK. It always good to see the LSBU Acoustics Group deeply involved in the activities of the IOA. We hope to see you at the next events planned, watch this space!

IOA Diploma students present to London Branch

On 18 Jan 2018  Diploma course director at LSBU Luis Gomez Agustina introduced two of the last year's students, Ben Dixon and Stuart Goodbun, who presented their Diploma final projects at the IOA London Branch. The presentations were delivered excellently and generated significant interest and questions from experts in the  audience. Very well done Ben and Stuart !