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Dr. Murray Hodgson
Professor
Population & Public Health
Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Medicine
Research Themes:
The Communicating Mind and Body
Dr. Hodgson was Professor of Acoustics in the School of Population and Public Health and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He was the Director of the Acoustics and Noise Research Group and of the UBC NSERC CREATE Sustainable Building Science Program. Dr. Hodgson was a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Hodgson’s major professional expertise and research interests were in architectural and engineering acoustics, with particular interests in the acoustics of industrial workshops, classrooms and other workrooms, in computer room-prediction modeling, active and passive noise control, auralization, and in acoustical environments in sustainably-designed buildings. He taught acoustics and noise control to undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, physics and occupational and environmental health/hygiene. He was the author of over 100 refereed journal articles and 250 conference papers in acoustics.
Research Interests
Architectural and engineering acoustics, with particular interests in the acoustics of industrial workshops, classrooms and other workrooms, in computer room-prediction modeling, active and passive noise control, auralization, and in acoustical environments in sustainably-designed buildings.