Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications

The Rensselaer EBESS Institute is planning a daylong conference event entitled Well-Being & Sustainability in the Built Environment to be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 in the CBIS Auditorium. This event will bring together industry and academia, with engaging presentations and panel discussions focused on 2 tracks, the Built Environment and Integrated Smart Systems. Registration link is below.

Well-being & Sustainability in the Built Environment Join EBESS for a daylong Industry Workshop featuring tracks on the BUILT ENVIRONMENT and INTEGRATED SMART SYSTEMS.

Last week Bob Karlicek was invited to give a plenary talk at the IEEE EEDAL and LS:17 joint conference in Toulouse, France.

https://eedal-ls21.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12

Congratulations to LESA Center student Xing Tong on the achievement!

ECSE Graduate Students Awarded Analog Devices Inc (ADI) Outstanding Student Designer Award | Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Posted February 18, 2022 Xing Tong and Ahmed Elmenshawi PhD students Xing Tong and Ahmed Elmenshawi were awarded the ADI Outstanding Student Award in 2021 and 2022 Xing Tong and Ahmed Elmenshawi were selected by Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) to receive the 2021 and 2022 Outstanding Student Designer Awa...

Congratulations to 2 exceptional RPI faculty members!

ECSE faculty Shayla Sawyer and Agung Julius promoted to full professorship | Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Posted February 10, 2022 ECSE faculty Shayla Sawyer and Agung Julius were promoted to full professorship in December 2021 in recognition of their scholarly achievements, high quality education and teaching, and service to the department, the Institute, and the profession. Prof. Sawyer received her B...

CEA Article from our GLASE collaborators.

You know what a greenhouse and vertical farm are, but what is controlled environment agriculture (CEA)? Cornell University Explains CEA. Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is an advanced and intensive form of hydroponically-based agriculture where plants grow within a controlled environment to …

New research at RPI EBESS.

With technology innovations from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, industrial h**p promises to modernize sustainable buildings and offer farmers a crop for the future H**p is going to be a game-changer across many industries, from building and construction to agriculture, all while reducing our carbon footprint, and Rensselae

Bob Karlicek on Spatially Tunable Lighting.

RPI’s Bob Karlicek on Spatially Tunable Lighting For an upcoming article in Electrical Contractor Magazine, I recently had the opportunity to interview Bob Karlicek, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Director of the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications, co-Director...

Creating the Crossroads for Climate Innovation - The new EBESS Institute at RPI.

Creating the Crossroads for Climate Innovation | Magazine Creating the Crossroads for Climate Innovation The new Institute for Energy, the Built Environment, and Smart Systems will drive collaborations to build a more sustainable world. By Reeve Hamilton On the morning of April 23, 2021, two particularly pressing emergencies were top of mind for world lead...

Latest GLASE publication on horticultural lamps.

On the Technical Performance Characteristics of Horticultural Lamps Recent advances in light emitting diode (LED) technology have provided exciting opportunities for plant lighting applications, and it is expected that LED lighting will soon overtake the still common use of high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting technology. Because LED lighting offers novel capabil...

https://www.ies.org/lda/adaptive-controls-have-a-built-in-designer/?_zs=5cuFa&_zl=RA4l2

Adaptive Controls Have a ‘Built-in’ Designer – Illuminating Engineering Society Imagine walking into a room without any light switches or control panels, and watching as the lighting automatically responds to where you and others are in the space, as well as tasks being performed. With light that is “aware,” you wouldn’t need the switch or controls because a lighting desi...

https://news.rpi.edu/content/2021/09/08/rensselaer-welcomes-congressional-bipartisan-discussion-future-energy

Rensselaer Welcomes Congressional Bipartisan Discussion on the Future of Energy pspanspanspanspanspanspanFaculty from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute served as experts in an exchange of information about developments in the field of sustainable energy, large-scale environmental change, and innovative and interdisciplinary research into energy storage and smart systems in the b...