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IOA
IOA
08 Mar 2018
International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day 2018 is a good time to reflect on the role of gender in our industry.

Rodger Munt
Rodger Munt
31 Jan 2018
Draft excluders, part 2: what makes a bad report?

Dr Rodger Munt FIOA is a retired scientist with 45 years of research experience. As a long-standing employee of the former Royal Aircraft Establishment

Rodger Munt
Rodger Munt
13 Dec 2017
Draft excluders, part 1: what makes a good report?

Dr Rodger Munt FIOA is a retired scientist with 45 years of research experience. As a long-standing employee of the former Royal Aircraft Establishment

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Mike Lotinga
Mike Lotinga
13 Jul 2017
Dog, deer or Djokovic?

As the Wimbledon 2017 finals approach this weekend, it’s the time of year to revisit the annual debate: to grunt or not to grunt?

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Mike Lotinga
Mike Lotinga
28 Apr 2017
Getting Chartered

Our company recently held a ‘Professional Institutions Week’ in which speakers from various engineering and professional bodies gave talks aimed at introducing the benefits offered by institutions to

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Adam Price
Adam Price
01 Feb 2017
Feel the noise: turning sound into touch

One of the areas in which the IOA is doing a great job is in explaining to the world that acoustics is more than just musical or architectural in nature.

Angela Lamacraft
Angela Lamacraft
16 Nov 2016
ISVR Challenge

This autumn saw the Musical Instrument Scrapheap Challenge for first year students studying the acoustics MEng at the University of Southampton.

Stuart Dryden
Stuart Dryden
27 Oct 2016
(Almost) All you wanted to know about consultancy – but were afraid to ask

On my first day in consultancy I didn’t even get a desk before I was despatched to join the company’s multi-disciplinary engineering team working in the client’s office on a new Wafer Fabrication Faci