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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

Mike Lotinga
Mike Lotinga
13 Oct 2016
Things that go bump in the night…

The ancient Celtic pagan festival of Samhain was a time in which the doorways between the spirit-world and ours were thought to be traversed by dead souls

Michael Lotinga
Michael Lotinga
05 Oct 2016
Dispatch from Inter-noise 2016: Towards a Quieter Future

The 45th International Congress and Exposition of Noise Control Engineering landed with a splash in the civilised surroundings of Hamburg

Luis Gomez-Agustina
Luis Gomez-Agustina
18 Sep 2016
Acoustics and music: a forgotten link?

It is well accepted and understood that acoustics is the physical underlying phenomenon and vehicle of music production, performance and composition.