Education + Resources

WattStopper has launched eCampus, a comprehensive and interactive online training site designed to make learning about lighting controls enjoyable and rewarding. Specifically designed for all influencers, including electrical contractors, distributors, ESCOs, and specifiers, the courses cover control applications in residential, commercial, and industrial settings. The free site features two offerings: eWards, where participants earn points [...]

The arrival of commercially available panels is a signal that OLEDs are getting in the game. The newly launched OLED Lighting Design Summit will be held in London on June 21-22 and will cover: · Current state of OLED technology, including efficiency, brightness, lifetime, performance and cost · Case-study examples of how OLEDs are being [...]

If you are attending LIGHTFAIR next week, you may want to stop by the DOE Solid-State Lighting booth (#2121). Representatives from DOE will be on hand to answer your questions about the latest CALiPER test results, GATEWAY demonstrations, the Lighting Facts label, design competitions like Lighting for Tomorrow and Next Generation Luminaires, the L Prize [...]

Students in UC Davis Professor Michael Siminovitch’s Winter 2010 Lighting Design studio course, taught at the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), engaged in the hands-on design and development of prototypes for fully working LED luminaires. On the day of the final critique, the classroom was set aglow with 26 designs ready for evaluation. Industry representatives [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced the 29th Annual Street and Area Lighting Conference to be held September 26-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Hotel in Huntington Beach, California. The Conference provides industry professionals with a forum for an open exchange of information on a wide range of outdoor [...]

Authors of papers regarding the art, science and practice of illumination are invited to submit their papers for possible presentation at the 2010 IES Annual Conference scheduled to be held in Toronto, Canada from November 7-9, 2010. Paper presentations provide a valuable vehicle for educating the membership about important technical advances in lighting. The Papers [...]

James Brodrick, PhD, and Stephen Jones have been selected to headline the LIGHTFAIR 2010 conference and Institute as the featured keynote speakers. They will address solid-state lighting and the impact of integrated design on the construction industry. Jones takes the stage on Monday, May 10—the opening day of the Institutes—and Brodrick follows on Tuesday, May [...]

Providing good lighting for senior living spaces is an important topic that is only going to get more important in the future. Check it out here.

As a former magazine guy (editor and later publisher of Architectural Lighting Magazine from 1995-2001), this is really depressing … In July 2009, Reed Elsevier announced that the RBI-US controlled circulation magazines and certain other print titles, representing approximately 45% of the revenues of RBI-US, were to be divested. Since then, a number of titles [...]