Acoustics quality for lecture hall at Faculty Electrical Engineering

Abstract

In the university environment, teaching and learning activities either at undergraduate or postgraduate level requires classroom or lecture theater. Therefore, to have conducive teaching and learning environment in the university, it is pertinent and important to consider from the design stage and take into account various design criteria of lecture hall acoustics. This effort should begin from the design stage as at this stage various design criteria can be properly ascertained and analyze, primarily to achieve good speech intelligibility for the lecture hall under consideration. The main aim of this chapter is to highlight various acoustics design criteria that need to be taken into consideration. Specifying acoustics design criteria for future lecture hall construction should ensure lecture hall posses optimum acoustics quality and able to translate into good speech intelligibility. Good speech intelligibility is required to the teaching and learning activity in university environment regardless of the teaching methodology adopted by the lecturers