In addition to the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department Career Fair, the Lighting Program and CU IES Student Chapter are pleased to offer a smaller Lighting and Electrical Systems career fair.  This event aims at connecting lighting and electrical systems employers with students seeking internships and full-time jobs in these two fields.

Dates

The Fall 2021 Lighting and Electrical Systems career fair will take place on Tuesday, November 16 (in person) from 9 am to noon and Wednesday, November 17 (online) from noon to 3:00 pm Mountain Time.  This event brings companies to campus on Tuesday, but provides flexibility by offering an online opportunity on Wednesday to out-of-state companies who are not able to travel or companies who wish to follow up with selected students they met in person the previous day.

This event is by invitation. If your company is interested in participating next academic year, please send an email to Sandra Vásconez at sandra.vasconez@colorado.edu.

Cost

The cost of participation is $150. The event is organized and led by students. Funds will be used exclusively for student activities such as their annual lighting retreat, travel assistance to industry conferences, lighting lab mock up materials, and the like. We are only able to accept checks, which should be made to IES Student Chapter and addressed as follows:

IES Student Chapter
C/o Sandra Vásconez
CEAE Department, 428 UCB
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309

Companies

Companies attending the career fair are welcome to provide a short video showcasing the company culture, notable projects, and a description of open positions and related expectations as a way of an introduction. While students are obliged to do research on companies, websites often lack details that a prospective lighting or electrical hire may need to understand their potential role in the company. The videos should be less than three minutes and need not be a high quality production.

Students

Companies will have access to Architectural Engineering students with an emphasis in lighting and electrical systems, and Environmental Design and other non-engineering students enrolled in our Lighting Design Certificate. 

Internship Seeker Knowledge Base

Students earning an Architectural Engineering Degree

  • Solid knowledge of lighting fundamentals including the metrics of light and application to design analysis

  • How to formulate a basic lighting concepts and communication through light maps

  • Lighting technologies

  • Lighting equipment specification 

  • IES design recommendations and  ASHRAE 90.1 energy requirements

  • Basic electric system design for buildings

  • Revit

  • AGi32

  • Basic programming practice in Excel, MATLAB and/or Python

Students earning a Lighting Design Certificate

  • Knowledge of lighting fundamentals

  • How to formulate a basic lighting concepts and communication through light maps

  • Lighting technologies

  • Lighting equipment specification 

  • IES design recommendations and  ASHRAE 90.1 energy requirements

  • Knowledge of environmental design principles and visual communication

  • Revit and/or Rhino

  • AGi32

  • Adobe Suite and other visual communication software

Full-time job seeker knowledge base

Students earning an Architectural Engineering Degree

In addition to above students have the following electives to choose from:

  • Optical Design for Solid State Lighting

  • Daylighting

  • Advanced Lighting Design

  • Adaptive Lighting

  • Theatre Lighting Design

  • Psychology of Perception

All seniors will experience a two-semester capstone class with focus on building system integration.

Students earning the Lighting Design Certificate

In addition to above, students must take the following courses to complete the certificate:

  • Architectural Daylighting Design

  • Advanced Lighting Design

  • Lighting Design Capstone

 

As part of their Environmental Design degree, students focus in one of the following areas:

  • Architecture

  • Landscape architecture

  • Environmental product design

  • Planning & urban design