ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Physics
Areas: Optics
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
Lighting and Visual Ergonomics (G2041341)
This course aims to provide the students with the basic knowledge required to be able to analyze lighting systems, to design ergonomic systems and to evaluate the performance of the different solutions, taking into account the present knowledge on the characteristics of the visual system, light sources, light fixtures and the tasks to be accomplished, with special attention devoted to good lighting practices and to the errors to be avoided in order to counteract the negative effects associated to the bad use of light (light pollution).
Light and Vision. Visual ergonomics. Light pollution. Fundamentals of photometry. Light Sources. Light fixtures. Standards and regulations. Applications: analysis, design and critical assessment of lighting projects and installed solutions.
- Luminotecnia. Iluminación de interiores y exteriores, Javier García Fernández and Oriol Boix Aragonès (ISBN: 84-600-9647-5)
- Optica Fisiológica: Psicofísica de la visión, J. Artigas, P. Capilla, A. Felipe and J. Pujol. Interamericana Mc.Graw-Hill (1995).
- Illumination Fundamentals, Alma E. F. Taylor, Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer (2000).
- El Libro Blanco de la Iluminación, CEI (2014).
- Standards and regulations.
- Specific papers published in research, professional and science outreach journals.
After completing this course the student shall be able to possess the following competences, besides those assigned specifically to it in the Official Programme of the Optics and Optometry Degree, as well as those required by the applicable laws and regulations:
- To know the response of the human visual system to different lighting conditions.
- To know and apply an ergonomical approach for the design of lighting systems.
- To know the causes and consequences of the bad use of light (light pollution) and the measures to be taken in order to avoid it.
- To know and use (qualitatively and quantitatively) the main photometric magnitudes, their mutual relationships and their representation systems.
- To know the properties of the main light sources presently available.
- To know the functional characteristics of the main types of light fixtures.
- To kow the main standards and regulations to be applied in lighting different environments.
- To analyze, design (qualitatively and quantitatively), and critically evaluate, specially from the visual ergonomics standpoint, different lighting solutions.
The methodology of this course will follow the guidelines established in the Title Project and the time allocation stated in the Yearly Teaching Planning. It will include expositive and interactive sessions in the classroom as well as in the lab and it can also include additional student assignments like reviews, homework to deepen knowledge on specific issues and/or evaluations of lighting systems installed inside or outside the Faculty building (e.g. public lighting systems).
The students that attended the lectures on a regular basis (minimum attendance: 80% of the lecture hours) may -at the choice of the professor in charge of this course- be evaluated by preparing a course report on an issue assigned by the professor, that shall be presented in oral and written form no later than the date of the official final examination. The students that pass satisfactorily this course work are released from the duty of passing that examination. If there is no such call for course works, or the student either do not present it or do not pass it, the student may still attend the final written examination -to be held in the date officially aproved by the Faculty- which can include among other issues the development of themes, the answer to theoretical or practically oriented questions and solving numerical problems. Other evaluable items will be the observational/experimental reports and the student projects assigned by the lecturer. The attendance and participation in the lectures, the personal work and the involvement in the course assignments will also be taken into account. Attending to the experimental sessions, carrying out the observations/experiments, and presenting the reports is a must. Passing successfully this course requires to pass separately the written examination (or course work) and the observational/experimental works, reports and projects.
The Title project establishes the following suggested amount of student personal work (outside the classroom or lab):
Study alone or in group 39h
Writing exercises, conclusions or other works 16.5h
Programming / making experiments or other works in computer or lab 11h
Recommended readings, activities at the library and the like 3h
Preparing oral presentations, debates and the like 5h
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Plano de continxencia derivado da covid-19
Nos distintos escenarios previsibles aplicaranse as normas vixentes en cada momento, incluíndo o "Acordo da Comisión de Asuntos Económicos, Administración, Servizos e Espazos (15/07/2020) da Facultade de Óptica e Optometría, en relación a metodoloxía docente para o próximo curso, tendo en conta as “Bases para o desenvolvemento dunha docencia presencial segura no curso 2020-2021”", ou disposicións que o substitúan.
Con carácter xeral, no escenario 3 a avaliación será continua, e a cualificación final estará baseada nun 20% na asistencia ás aulas até o momento no que a docencia presencial fose suspendida (ou nun traballo escrito substitutorio da mesma, a xuízo do profesor responsable) e no 80% restante ás tarefas encargadas polo profesor responsable da materia, que poderán incluír a entrega de traballos específicos e/ou de problemas resoltos, en proporción vaiable. No escenario 2, en función da evolución da situación e a xuizo do profesor responsable, poderán aplicarse de forma total ou parcial estes criterios.
Salvador Xurxo Bara Viñas
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813525
- salva.bara [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Monday | |||
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| 18:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 3 |
| 19:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 3 |
| 06.17.2021 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |
| 07.08.2021 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |