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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Robert F. Karlicek, Jr., PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The topic: lighting industry disruption, specifically as a process called “creative destruction.” The interview informed an article I wrote for the June issue of tED Magazine. DiLouie: In your talk [...]

Eaton recently announced its 2017 calendar of classes available at its SOURCE Lighting Education Center. The facility, which has educated more than 163,000 professionals and students, offers a wide variety of continuing education-accredited classes designed to broaden the understanding of lighting, controls and its applications. This year, the SOURCE curriculum includes new lighting controls classes [...]

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has recently released a free open-access circadian stimulus (CS) calculator to help lighting professionals select light sources and light levels that will increase the potential for circadian-effective light exposure in architectural spaces, utilizing the CS metric. Developed by LRC researchers, the CS metric is a new [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced a call for speakers for the Society’s 2016 Annual Conference to be held from October 23 – 25 in Orlando, Florida at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Hotel. The theme for this year’s event is Connected Light. The IES is seeking subject matter experts from diverse disciplines to present [...]

The SOURCE, Eaton’s Lighting Education Center, is turning 25 this year, and has announced its 2016 education schedule: April 13 – 15: Lighting Fundamentals/Lighting Basics May 18 – 20: LEDs Controls, New Technologies and Retrofits for Energy Efficient Solutions June 2 – 3: Healthcare Symposium June 9 – 10: LED Exterior Lighting Solutions July 27 [...]

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy As we approach a holiday that’s all about gratitude, I’d like to take this opportunity to express my personal gratitude to Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, and Hiroshi Amano. In awarding the three [...]

Maury Wright, editor of LEDs Magazine, had an interesting editorial that started the November 2014 issue. Focusing on color-tunable white light and new form factors, he says LEDs are beginning to realize vast transformative potential, though there’s still work to be done. Of particular interest is what we know about light’s impact on human health, [...]

First, the bad news. Due to the weather-related slow start in the nonresidential building market during the first part of the year, and the prolonged weakness in the institutional sector, construction spending projections for the rest of the year have been lowered slightly. Now the good news. The commercial construction sector is still looking at [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recently announced the recipients of the 2014 Lumen Awards. Ten New York City-based design firms – AKF Lighting Design, Arup, Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, Cooley Monato Studio, Focus Lighting, Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, L’Observatoire International, PHT Lighting Design, Renfro Design Group, and Tillotson Design [...]