Education + Resources

The Energy Center of Wisconsin offers a wide range of online education courses, including a number of lighting courses, with topics ranging from daylighting to specifying LED products. Check out the course listing here. Note some courses present a cost for either viewing or getting education credit.

The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education is offering a seven-module course guide “Lighting Across the Design Curriculum,” as it attempts to become a leading resource for the acquisition and distribution of teaching materials and information for use by educators in the teaching of lighting design. The first course guide was developed by a team of [...]

Finelite has released an LED Talks video on the topic of flicker in LED luminaires, which was recently recognized by the IES for inclusion in the 2013 IES Progress Report for “advancement in methods or aids to facilitate lighting design and/or application.” The video is accompanied by a whitepaper. The video, presented by Terry Clark, [...]

The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST), a program of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently released a new publication to aid owners and facility managers of multifamily affordable and rental housing in selecting LED lighting products. The publication, The Lighting Field Guide: Upgrading to LEDs for Multifamily Housing, [...]

On its blog, Hubbell recently published a primer on color quality by Chris Bailey, Director of company’s Lighting Solutions Center. It begins: “When it comes to color and light, everyone has an opinion. We use correlated color temperature (CCT) to describe the apparent color of a light source or how “warm” or “cool” the light [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society has published an updated version of its authoritative reference on lighting upgrades, LEM-3-13. The document has been organized into three sections. The first describes general issues related to upgrading regardless of technology. The second covers equipment typically used in upgrades. And the third describes four applications (office, retail, school, healthcare) where [...]

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will hold the Photometry Institute October 8-9, 2013 in Troy, NY. This two-day, hands-on seminar teaches industry professionals about the latest developments in photometric testing and evaluation, including new testing requirements for solid-state light sources and systems. Engineers, technicians, testing personnel, product developers and designers from [...]

The Lighting Controls Association invites the electric power industry into a partnership to advance education about energy-saving lighting controls. I recently produced a 16-minute webinar introducing electric utilities, independent system operators and energy efficiency organizations to the Lighting Controls Association and its capabilities. The webinar presents the case for the importance of lighting in energy [...]

THE LIGHTING PROFESSION The IES is endeavoring to provide support for those people who may be ready, both professionally and technically, to take the exam. To this end, the IES LC Study Group has engaged experienced lighting educators to lead and prepare materials for the study group. The materials, instruction, practice exams, reference materials, and [...]