ELK 371E - Illumination Techniques

Course Objectives

1. Teach the concepts related to light, radiation and color; eye and vision; photometric quantities; laws of illumination; physiological-optical principles.
2. Give basic principles and the concepts related to light sources and luminaries and different entities of illuminating systems.
3. Teach how a general illumination design and lighting calculations can be carried out and applied, and make acquire the students the skill of realize the necessary lighting calculation for a simple system.

Course Description

Light and vision, photometric quantities and laws, physiological-optical fundamentals, the principles of the light production, light sources, the illumination devices, the components of illumination, Lighting Computation, Voltage drops and the calculations of conductor cross sections.