Environmental and Architectural Acoustics - MSc
Overview
The best facilities
Our professionally focused degree gives you direct experience of modern measurement equipment and techniques. We’ve been offering courses in Acoustics for over 35 years, and house the best facilities in the South-East of England, including a full-size reverberant and anechoic chambers, as well as an exceptionally well equipped laboratory, featuring the very latest instrumentation and technology.
Why Environmental and Architectural Acoustics at LSBU?
- Offering courses in Acoustics for over 35 years, we house the only centre for study in the South-East with full-size reverberant and anechoic chambers as well as an exceptionally well equipped and staffed laboratory.
- Our teaching team are award-winning. All are actively involved in research and consultancy, drawing on the latest industry developments in both lectures and practical work.
- We showcase the high quality output of our acsoustic group on the LSBU Acosutic blog.
- For those applicants who already hold an Institute of Acoustics Diploma, there is an option of direct entry to the second year of the part-time Masters course.
Modules
As well as being directly relevant to the practice of acoustics, our modules consider the broader aspects of investigation and control of the built environment. Individual modules can be taken separately as part of continuing professional development.
- Acoustics laboratory
- Architectural acoustics
- Measurement and control of sound
- Subjective and environmental acoustics
- Masterclass in acoustics
- Research methods
- Energy engineering project
Entry requirements
- A Bachelor degree equivalent to UK 2:2 in a relevant subject.
- Applications are also welcomed from those without the required qualifications that possess the life/work skills that would make them suitable to study at this level. Those applicants holding an Institute of Acoustics Diploma will be exempted from the appropriate taught units.