AREN 3540: Illumination I

Description

This course is about the fundamentals of illumination and lighting systems. The emphasis is on the technical foundations for the generation and distribution of light. This course is a basic fundamentals course that focuses on the physics of illumination with respect to lighting technology and the quantitative aspects of lighting design.  For those students interested in a technically intensive career in lighting this course will be the basis for all illumination calculations.  For those students more interested in the lighting design for buildings, this course will give them the technical knowledge necessary to effectively create installed lighting systems that meet the design expectations.

Prerequisites:

  • GEEN 1300 (or CSCI 1300 or ECEN 1310)
  • APPM 2350 (or MATH 2400)

Please note that students must attain a minimum grade of C- in all prerequisites. This course is restricted to College of Engineering majors only.

Spectral Power Distributions

Understanding spectral power distributions

Solid Angle
In this demonstration you will learn about Solid Angles

 

Instructor:C. Walter Beamer IV, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Text: 
Illuminating Engineering: From Edison's Lamp to the LED
Second Edition
Joseph B. Murdoch