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Lighting Education Fundamentals (ED-100)

Provides comprehensive instruction on state-of-the art lighting practices. In a basic and straight forward style, the course modules provide up-to-date material on systems, equipment, calculation procedures and terminology. The set of 10 instructional lessons is ideal for those who have only a basic awareness of lighting and profesionnals who want a thorough overview of the field. The following lessons are covered:

Light and Color

Light as radiant energy; color theory; source color characteristics; the five basic lighting metrics. ED-100.1

Light, Vision and Perception

The human visual system, physiological and psychological needs, and responses of people to the luminous environment. Introduction to the new IESNA Lighting Design Guide on quality and quantity recommendations. ED-100.2

Light Sources

Basic information on operating principles, components, types, applications, auxiliary equipment and special considerations of the different families of lamps. ED-100.3

Luminaires and their Photometric Data

Basic principles used in luminaire design, and the terminology commonly used. Review of photometric test report information used to determine luminaire performance. ED-100.4

Lighting Calculations

Two methods of calculating illuminance are described: the Lumen Method for average illuminance, and the Inverse Square Law for calculating illuminance at a specific point. ED-100.5

Lighting Applications for Visual Performance

Review of factors which affect visual performance (visual tasks, task area, luminaire selection and luminaire layout) in context of six applications - office, educational facilities, financial facilities, health care facilities, libraries and industrial facilities. ED-100.6

Lighting Applications for Visual Impact

An explanation of basic concepts of design and techniques for specific applications such as merchandising, museum, restaurant and hospitlity spaces, casino and gaming facilities, and houses of worship, where visual impact is an important goal. ED-100.7

Lighting Applications for Exterior Environments

Fundamentals of lighting for common exterior applications. Topics include: maintenance, control, vandalism, and safety and security. Basic calculation information for floodlighting. Review of lighting criteria for parking lots, roadways, sports facilities, and landscapes areas. ED-100.8

Energy Management and Economics

Review of impact of design practices, equipment selection and maintenance on energy management. The economics section provides information regarding the costs and benefits of various alternative solutions for lighting application. ED-100.9

Daylighting

Discussion of the methods of creating daylight, and the quality issues that must be considered in daylighted spaces to achieve comfortable, energy efficient daylighting systems. ED-100.10

Lighting Education Instructor's Manual (ED-100IM-00)

This package contains comprehensive instructions on how to effectively conduct the ED-100 program, including a brief overview of each module and questions to test the student's understanding of the material.

Intermediate Level Lighting Course (ED-150)

The new ED-150 course is designed as the next course for those who have already completed the ED-100 fundamentals program or have gained basic lighting knowledge in other educational programs (courses in academia or industry). It is strongly recommended that prior to taking ED-150 registrants attend a session on ED-200.1, Lighting Mathematics, and also have copies of IESNA publication TM-1, Lighting Metrics for reference.

Module 1: Designing for Lighting Quality

The first session sets the tone for the entire course. It is intended to provide an overview of the course and to inspire attendees about the importance of lighting. It provides the "big picture" view of the lighting design process.

Module 2: Vision

Good lighting design and engineering require an understanding of vision and the perceptions that result from it. Anatomy, optics and physiology comprise the components of vision that a lighting professional should understand. The module discusses how vision "works," and how that process affects lighting design.

Module 3: Color

This module assumes that participants understand the fundamental concepts of color vision and builds on knowledge about the relationship between CCT and CRI. The derivation and limitations of these metrics is explored to justify specification of lamp color properties for various applications.

Module 4: Establishing Lighting Goals (Schematic Design)

A review of how the lighting design process provides a context for establishing design goals that address both visual performance and the quality of the visual environment before equipment selection. Topics include defining spatial/architectural constraints, setting luminous hierarchy goals and creating spatial impressions.

Module 5: Light Sources

Rather than reviewing specific products, the module explores the reasons behind new developments and the relevant performance metrics that can be used to assess new lamps and ballasts.

Module 6: Luminaires and Optical Control

The principles of reflection, transmission, and refraction are explained and demonstrated to provide a clear understanding of how luminaires control light. The differences between the often-confused terms luminance and luminous intensity are explained.

Module 7A: Lumen Method

Course attendees with extensive experience making lighting calculations with the lumen method may not understand its foundation. The module explains the limits of the method and its useful extensions, particularly in determining interreflected light.

Module 7B: Calculation of Illuminance at a Point

The module provides an understanding the origin, use and limits of the inverse square law and the cosine law of incidence. It provides attendees with the ability to determine the illuminance from a point source in somewhat complicated geometries, and the illuminance from rectangular area sources using exitances and configuration factors in indirect and daylighting applications.

Module 8: Controls for Lighting

This session provides a foundation for understanding control strategies and reviews the factors that influence the basic selection of control techniques. By giving an overview of the various control technologies, attendees are able to integrate knowledge of control products with appropriate applications.

Module 9: Building Electrical Systems

The characteristics of electric power systems as they relate to buildings and lighting systems is discussed to give greater understanding about power distribution to attendees who may have previously only specified lighting loads and used electrical engineers to design the overall system for a building.

Module 10: Daylighting Analysis

The session focuses on the characteristics of daylight delivery systems (vertical fenestration, skylights, lightshelves, shading and overhangs), how they perform, how they can be integrated with electric lighting systems and how architecture must be modified to accomodate them.

Module 11: Economics

A skill-based session with example problems and group exercises to provide hands-on experience in converting between present value, annualized cost and future cost, and in conducting and interpreting the results of a complete life cycle cost analysis of several lighting system options.

Intermediate Level Lighting Student Materials Note-taking workbook

Contains speaker's presentation outline and supplementary note-taking space.