Lighting Research Center associate director Russ Leslie moderated the Lighting Value Forum, whose panelists were (l to r): Peter Bennich, Solid State Lighting chair, Swedish Energy Agency; Randy Burkett, president and design principal, Randy Burkett Lighting Design; Steven Briggs, general manager of Global Product Management, GE Lighting Solutions; Andrew Vesey, COO and executive vice president, AES Corp.; and Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy Group UK.
The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is housed in the historic W. & L.E. Gurley Building in Troy, N.Y.
The LRC is testing more than 115 lamps for reliability in its laboratory, which is the only university-based laboratory accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accredition Program.
LRC research scientist Jennifer Brons shares her poster on modular lighting panels for wall and ceiling applications.
The LRC held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new photometry laboratory, funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. From l to r: LRC director Mark Rea; past NYSERDA president Irvin “Jack” White; and current NYSERDA CEO and president Frank Murray.
Equipment in the new photometry laboratory includes a mirror-type gonio-photometer system.
A large, thermally controlled, integrating sphere system in the new photometry laboratory
Faculty, staff, and students surprised Leslie and Rea with a tribute to their 25 years of leadership at the LRC.
Fred Heller, chairman emeritus and former CEO of Genlyte, was the inaugural recipient of the Glenn W. Bailey Industry Mentor program.
An impressive cake made by Levent Sahin, a Ph.D. student at the LRC, recreates the facility in edible form. He also wrote the names of the LRC staff on the back of the cake.
