14 DAY TRIAL // United Kingdom: The Institute of Acoustics is inviting sound engineers with no more than five years of experience in the field to apply and partake in the 2007 Young Persons' Award for Innovation in Acoustical Engineering.
The goal of this award series is to prize the most innovative minds in the field of acoustics and the applicants must display their new methods of solving different problems they have encountered in their work.
Rather oriented towards feasibility and practical use, the young engineers' solutions will be judged upon diverse criteria such as green, money-saving technologies, time-saving and user-friendliness as well as the practical possibility to be implemented as upgrades or easy-attainable modifications of existing similar projects.
Since the Industrial Acoustics Company Limited is the main sponsor of this awards and the company's most deemed goal is noise control, it is obvious that they are looking for the brightest minds in the sonic field; not only to prize them but also to draw them nearer, in a massive campaign of technological advance in this particular field.
The prizes will be presented by a true legend in the sound engineering world, Mr. Trevor Baylis, a real "British champion in innovation", as the IOA president, Collin English stated. The Big Prize is worth of 200 GBP cash and as following: name engraved on the prestigious solid silver trophy, a solid silver replica to keep plus the following provided by corporate sponsors, IAC: a luxury weekend break for two in Barcelona pic of Sagrada Famiglia and plane and theatre, ?500 spending money as well as two tickets for a show of the winner's choice at any one of the city's theatres and either lunch with Dr Higini Arau, Spain's leading performance space acoustician and Master of Barcelona University or a visit to IDIADA, one of Spain's state-of-the-art acoustic testing laboratories.
The prizes are completed with secondary awards for two runners-up. The entry forms and more details of the terms you may need can be obtained from the IAC or IOA websites so hurry up to claim your prize!