Light and Lighting Engineering

11B0264

Bachelor

German

5.0

irregular

1 semester

The task of lighting and illumination technology is to enable people to maintain optimum visual conditions in their surroundings. In addition to physiological, physical and technical lighting aspects, this also includes aesthetic design methods. 

The basic principles to be observed for this are dealt with in this module.

1 Basics: light, perception, physiological principles

2 Light sources

3 Luminaires

4 Physical and photometric basics

5 Fundamentals of colorimetry and photometrics

6 Lighting management

7 Basics of lighting design

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination

• Field work / Experimental work

Exam: see curent Study regulations

EA: ca. 5 Laboratory experiments à 90 min

none

Students who have successfully completed this module have basic knowledge of light generation, vision, color definition and color perception. They are familiar with various light sources and luminaire systems and have basic knowledge of lighting design and key lighting standards.

Students can describe color and light phenomena linguistically and assign them to physical models according to their complexity. They have basic knowledge of the materialization and shaping of visible light.

Students are able to perceive and describe the characteristics and properties of existing natural or artificially generated lighting and lighting designs as well as their effects on the recipients of the design solutions.

Students can report on lighting in environments and rooms using subject-specific terms and discuss these in a target group-specific manner. They can pre-visualize, simulate and verbally represent simple concepts. They can organize appropriate collaboration on the non-linguistic field of experience of light among themselves and present their work results in a comparative manner.

• Thiesing, Frank

• Haunhorst, Mario