New RMIOA Status for Research Students Agreed

 

On 23rd August 2022 at the Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Acoustics a proposal by Professor Stephen Dance was accepted by a vote of the corporate members. The vote was to introduce for the first tie at any professional body that research students by given a special status of Research Member of the Institute of Acoustics, with the post nominals of RMIOA. This will hopefully ensure the integration of research into the previously practitioner lead institute. Fingers Crossed with the UK Acoustic Network help it will work!

The Acoustic Students at Inter-Noise 2022

 
After 4 years of planning - Inter-Noise 2022 happened as an in-person hybrid event in Glasgow, UK. Over 5 days 11 students enjoyed various Early Career Events, with 1/3 of the 1274 delegates coming under this umbrella. Inter-Noise 2022 was pitched to the I-INCE panel by Professor Stephen Dance in Chicago and the decision for Glasgow to host the event was completed vindicated. We hope all the students enjoyed the event, made new contacts and learnt something new!

Presented at Inter-Noise 22: Plenary Address on Acoustic Design for School

 
On the 23rd August 2022 Emeritus Professor Bridget Shield gave the closing address at the Inter-Noise conference. Her selected subject was Acoustic Design of Schools. Bridget gave a history on architectural acoustics and specific acoustic design of school through the 20th Century. She finsihed by providing multiple examples of appropriate and inapproprite results for both primary and secondary school children as well as children with English as a second language and those with hearing impairment. Well done on a fantastically informative presentation!

Not Presented at Inter-Noise: Testing of Alternative Ventilation Ducts

 

On the 23rd August 2022 PhD candidate Suzana Zekic's slides were used by Jack Harvie-Jones to present her research work in a paper entitled, "Experiment acoustic testing of alternative ventilation ducts". Professor Stephen Dance assisted Jack as the slide were covered which focused on plastic ducts in a collaboration with a CIBSE working party of which Jack is a founding member.

Presented at Inter-Noise 22: An Audio-based Vehicle Classifer

 
On the 22nd August 2022 former MSc student Ekim Bakirci presented results from his Masters dissertation in a paper entitled, "An audio based vehicle classifier using a convolutional neural network". Ekim demonstrated that 7 different types of vehicle could be classified after training for identification on rural or low use roads with 95%+ accuracy.

Presented at Inter-Noise 22: How much Diffusio is Too Much in a Concert Hall

On the 21st Augut 2022 former MSc student Michae Fort presented his Masters dissertation work in a paper entitled, "Using non-wave based modelling to explore how mich acoustic diffusion is too much in a concert hall?" In the Computer simulation and Modelling session Michael showed results of several halls using CATT-Acoustic based simulation with varying amount of surface diffusion. 

 

Presented at Inter-Noise 22: Effect of Face Masks on Speech Intelligiblity

 
On the 22nd August 2022 MSc student Ruben Vazquez Amos presented his on-going Masters work together with James Green written up in a paper entitled, "Effect of Face Masks on Speech Intelligiblity". Ruben showed that results from Head and Torso experiments did not agree with results fro actual people in terms of sound attenuation and were significantly different for speech intellgibility at critical important frequencies. More work will follow.