Presenting... The Art of Being Meetings

 
The Art of Being Meetings are back with the support of the IOA and UKAN Early Career groups! This time down in Southampton. The two one day events will be hosted by the National Oceanographic Centre on 21/22nd March 2024. The idea is to bring together practitioners and academic to share their knowledge and experience of the business. You can register here! UKAN will assist with financial support for all delegates here! All you need to do is to become a member... whic his free!!

2022-23 NTI-Audio award best LSBU IOA Diploma project

 

The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) London Branch held its first meeting of the year at London South Bank University (LBSU) on 17th January 2024. Two of the best 2022-23 IOA Diploma student projects at LSBU were shortlisted to present their final projects as part of annual NTI-Audio sponsored best final project award competition. The students shortlisted and their topics were: Rebecca Page on Impact Noise and Vibration Induced by Deadlifts and Rhiannon Hawkins on Acoustic design of heritage school buildings

Sponsor of the award  NTI-Audio UK Managing director Charles Greene and LSBU IOA Diploma course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina presented the award to the joyous winner: Rebecca Page. This year’s event has marked the sixth anniversary of this successful award. The hybrid meeting  was well attended by a mix of senior consultants, academics, acoustics students and alumni. In the presentation speech Charles mentioned the consistent high quality of the projects entered to this award reflecting the high standard of the Diploma run at LSBU. Many congratulations to Rebecca and the other shortlisted finalist, we wish you all the best for the future.

Article on "Acoustical and Vibrational Properties of Thin Rigid plates " published

 

On 16th January 2024 MDPI published an article in Acoustics by Dr Haydar Aygun. The paper was entitled, "Computational and theoretical investigation into acoustical and vibrational properties of thin rigid materials".  Well worth a read! 

LSBU to Host Acoustics AI Conference

 

The Institute of Acoustics is organising an "Acoustics in AI " meeting at London South Bank University on Wednesday 22nd May 2024. This one day meeting is a first for instittue. A Call for Paper has been announced covering fundamentals in AI, Limitations of AI,  Reliability of AI, and Potential applications for AI. See you in London!

IOA London Evening Branch Meeting for Diploma Student Project Prize

 

For the sixth year the annual LSBU Diploma project presentations will take place at the Hub building on Wednesday 17th January 2024, as sponsored by NTI-Audio. This year there will be two presentations: the first on, "Impact noise and vibratin induced by deadlifts" by Rebecca Page, and second from Rhiannon Hawkins on, "Acoustic design of a heritage school building". Looking forward to seeing you all! 

First cohort of Acoustics Apprentices complete the taught part of the programme

The first ever Acoustics Technician Apprenticeship cohort in the UK has completed the taught part of their two year programme. The final semester of the taught programme has been led by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina. After sitting their last exams in January 2024, the students will start preparing for the Gateway stage which will lead them to the last part of the programme called End Point Assessment. The whole team wish our acoustics apprentices best wishes for the Christmas holidays and for their next final stage in their apprenticeship.

 

Summing Up 2023

 

We thank you all for your support over 2023. We started the year with two new PhD students who were shortly joined by another two, to bring the group to a full complement. Alec Korchev won the Noise Abatement Society John Connell Rising Star award. Masters' students Patrick Spiers and Colin Arden won the Acoustical Society of America Newman Medal. Egith papers/presentation were given by staff and students at various conferences including ICBEN in Belgrade, Inter-Noise in Tokyo, IOA in Winchester, ASA in Sydney. The Art of Being an Acoustician was run at the Little Ships Club in London with Apprentices, Diploma, Masters and PhD students in attendance. Links with the IOA were strengthened with Diploma students presenting to the January London branch meeting, Leo Fernandex winning the NTi-Audio sponsored prize, with the Masters' students presenting at the July meeting. Dr Aygyn also presented his research at the London May meeting. New equipment was purchased: a B&K Lan XI system and a new 3D printer. Enterpirse activities grew with IOA short course run, Royal Academy of Music collaboration continuing, cooperation with Foster + Partners, and St Paul's Cathedral monitoring project continuing. In 2024 we look forward to submitting two significant EPSRC research grants and two PhD completions. Have a great Christmas from all the team!