The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) is a British professional engineering institution founded in 1974. It is licensed by the
Engineering Council UK
The Engineering Council (formerly Engineering Council UK; colloquially known as EngC) is the UK's regulatory authority for registration of Chartered and Incorporated engineers and engineering technician. The Engineering Council holds the natio ...
to assess candidates for inclusion on
ECUK's Register of professional Engineers. The institute's address is Silbury Court, 406 Silbury Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 2AF, United Kingdom. The current president of the IOA is Alistair Somerville. Past presidents include Barry Gibbs, John Hinton OBE, Colin English, David Weston, Tony Jones,
Professor Trevor Cox, William Egan, Professor Bridget Shield, and Jo Webb.
History
In 1963 a Society of Acoustic Technology was formed in the UK for those interested in this subject: the President was
Elfyn Richards.
[R. E. D. Bishop (1967) ''J. Sound Vib.'' 5 (3), 509-514 "The British Acoustical Society - a Presidential Address"] Because of the interest in establishing a professional body, meetings were held with various societies and institutions, and in 1965 a British Acoustical Society was set up, absorbing the earlier society.
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In 1974 the British Acoustical Society amalgamated with the Acoustics Group of the ]Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, physics research, research and applied physics, application.
It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
to form the Institute of Acoustics.[www.ioa.org.uk]
About us
Specialist groups
* Building acoustics
* Electroacoustics
Acoustical engineering (also known as acoustic engineering) is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration. It includes the application of acoustics, the science of sound and vibration, in technology. Acoustical engineers are typical ...
* Environmental noise
Environmental noise is an accumulation of noise pollution that occurs outside. This noise can be caused by transport, industrial, and Sport, recreational activities.
Noise is frequently described as 'unwanted sound'. Within this context, envir ...
* Measurement and instrumentation
* Musical acoustics
Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a multidisciplinary field that combines knowledge from physics, psychophysics, organology (classification of the instruments), physiology, music theory, ethnomusicology, signal processing and instrument buil ...
* Noise and vibration engineering
* Physical acoustics Physical acoustics is the area of acoustics and physics that studies interactions of acoustic waves with a gaseous, liquid or solid medium on macro- and micro-levels. This relates to the interaction of sound with thermal waves in crystals (phonons) ...
* Speech
Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...
and hearing
Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory sci ...
* Underwater acoustics
Underwater acoustics (also known as hydroacoustics) is the study of the propagation of sound in water and the interaction of the mechanical waves that constitute sound with the water, its contents and its boundaries. The water may be in the oce ...
Medals and awards
The following prizes are awarded by the Institute
* Rayleigh Medal The Rayleigh Medal is a prize awarded annually by the Institute of Acoustics for "outstanding contributions to acoustics". The prize is named after John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. It should not be confused with the medal of the same name awarded ...
* Tyndall Medal
* A B Wood Medal
* R W B Stephens Medal
* IOA Engineering Medal
* Honorary fellowship
* Peter Barnett Memorial Award
* The Award for Promoting Acoustics to the Public
* Award for Services to the Institute
* IOA Young Persons' Award for Innovation in Acoustical Engineering
* IOA Prize for best diploma student
* ANC prize for the best diploma project
* ANC prize for the best paper at an IOA conference
See also
* Chartered engineer
Regulation and licensure in engineering is established by various jurisdictions of the world to encourage life, public welfare, safety, well-being, then environment and other interests of the general public and to define the licensure process thr ...
* Incorporated engineer
An engineering technologist is a professional trained in certain aspects of development and implementation of a respective area of technology. An education in engineering technology concentrates more on application and less on theory than do ...
* The Association of Noise Consultants
References
External links
Institute of Acoustics
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1974 establishments in the United Kingdom
Acoustics
ECUK Licensed Members
Engineering societies based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Hertfordshire
Organisations based in Milton Keynes
Science and technology in Hertfordshire
Scientific organizations established in 1974