Welcome to the Masters students 2021-22

 

The Acoustics team are delighted to welcome the new MSc students to the Environmental and Architectural Acoustics course 2021-22. Everything is back to normal and we plan on a highly active programme with lots of field trips! Welcome!

Welcome 2021-22 IOA Diploma students

 

The 2021-2022 course of Institute of Acoustics (IOA) Diploma in Acoustics at LSBU has commenced. Course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina welcomed the students and introduced the course. This is eight time that LSBU runs the IOA Diploma course since it was reinstated in Sept 2013. Fifteen students have joined this  academic year intake.  This cohort has a varied composition comprising of Music Technology, Audio Engineering, Geology, Urban planning, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering students.  Two weeks into the course the students are settling in well and enjoying the on-campus lab experiments , lectures and lab facilities.

We wish you a great learning experience and enjoyable time at LSBU.

The Acoustics Group welcome new PhD student Onur Ozkaya

 

Onur Ozkaya has been welcomed as a new acoustics based PhD student. Dr Haydar Aygun is Onur's supervisor. Onur has just defended his PhD RES-2 stage in “Quantitative intelligence in architectural acoustics”.  Just three more years to go!

Royal Academy of Music Hearing Tests

 
For the 15th year the Royal Academy of Music have collaborated with London South Bank University to undertake hearing tests for all new students. Prof Stephen Dance is using a new technique called Otoacoustic Emission to establish at the earliest possible stage any hearing damage to the musicians. This is backed up by the gold standard, Pure Tone Audiometry tests which are regularly undertaken by the students.

First on-line seminar to the new Royal Academy of Music students

 

On the 14th September 2021 Professor Stephen Dance was invited by the Royal Academy of Music to give his annual lecture to the new students. The topic was, "Musicians' Hearing and the Sound of Performance". All the students attended on-line to the 1 hour seminar and many interesting questions were asked relating to musician experience. Many thanka go to Nicola Mutton for organising the event.

Paper on Room Acoustic Metamaterials published in Applied Sciences

 

Dr Eric Ballestero has had his third paper from his PhD thesis published. The article was accepted by Applied Sciences and was entitled, "Scattering evaluation of EquivalentSurface Impedances of Acoustic Metamaterial in Large FDTD Volumes using RLC Circuit Modelling". The paper describes how very fine structural detail can be accurately modelled even in auditoria using wave based room acoustic simulations. Outstanding team work by staff from University of Le Mans, London South Bank University and University of Valencia!  

400 Happy Ears Arrive for Music Students

For 2021/22 400 pairs of Happy Ears have been purchased for every new Royal Academy of Music student. For the 15th year the students will be visiting the Acoustics Laboratory from mid September where there ears will be sized and given (for free) appropriate hearing protection. Happy Ears were specifically designed as musician hearing protection.