Press Release: Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center opens registration for the Smart Spaces conference, February 12-13, 2014 in Troy, NY

The University of New Mexico will honor Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Steve R.J. Brueck with the first UNM Presidential Award of Distinction this fall. Professor Brueck, currently the ERC’s Associated Director from UNM, will receive the inaugural award on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. UNM President Robert Frank established the award to recognize outstanding career achievement, scholarly excellence, leadership in a profession, noteworthy public service or humanitarian endeavor. The ERC congratulates Steve on this much-deserved award!

Hafez Raeisi Fard, ERC RPI doctoral candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at RPI is one of 10 winners ofRensselaer’s “Change the World Challenge” student innovation competition, for his project titled, “Enhanced Energy Efficiency Using Thermal Management in Electronic Devices.”

Matt Laherty, Business Development Manager, Cisco, will present at the Smart Lighting ERC Speaker Series: Lighting Transformed: How Innovation Will Create New Opportunities in Lighting

Majeed Hayat, ERC Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been named anIEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to the modeling of impact ionization and noise in avalanche-photodiode devices.

Bytelight, an ERC start-up company, gets a write-up in StartUp Beat Magazine titled: “Sending Bytes through Lights”.