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: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
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 and Vision. Visual ergonomics. 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 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).
Two alternative types of evaluation are established, to which the students of the subject may choose, in both cases it will be taken into account that: The completion and presentation of the practices is mandatory. Passing the subject requires separately passing the exam (or work, if applicable) on the one hand and the practices on the other.
Evaluation Modalities
1º)- Final Written Exam - to be carried out on the dates officially approved by the Center- which may require, among other things, the development of topics, the answer to theoretical or practical questions, and the resolution of numerical problems. Percentage of the exam grade in the evaluation: 60%.
Attendance and completion of the Laboratory Practices of the Subject, as well as the delivery of a Practices Report. Percentage of Practices in the evaluation: 40%
2º) - The students that regularly attends face-to-face classes (minimum attendance: 85% of teaching hours) may -in the opinion of the person in charge of teaching this subject- be evaluated by preparing a course work assigned by the teacher, which will be presented orally and in writing no later than the official date of the exam for each call.
Percentage of Work in the evaluation: 50%
In addition to the work, in this modality, the attendance and participation in the classes and in the practices of the subject will also be taken into account with a percentage of 10%.
The practices of the subject, completion and presentation of the report, are mandatory, and the percentage in the evaluation will be 40% of the final grade.
By express indication of the Dean of the Faculty, it is stated that "For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and review of qualifications will apply"
By express indication of the Dean of the Faculty, it is stated that "In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and for the review of grades will apply."
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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Maria Concepcion Nistal Fernandez
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813529
- mconcepcion.nistal [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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| 18:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 2 |
| 06.05.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |
| 06.20.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |