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Ryan
Kelley has been with Lighting Technologies
since June of 2006 as an optical engineer. He
has worked on a variety of optical design projects
as well as material measurements, lamp modeling,
Photopia support, and Photopia development. He
has also participated in and given several Photopia
training seminars.
Education
Ryan
graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder
in May of 2006 with both Bachelors and Masters
degrees. He completed these two degrees in just
4 years through the combined BS/MS program offered
at CU. He was one of only 3 engineering students
to graduate with a 4.0 GPA, earning him several
awards that are listed below. His Bachelors is
in Architectural Engineering with an emphasis
in lighting, and his Masters is in Civil Engineering
with an emphasis in building systems and lighting.
Over the course of his education Ryan took 9 courses
related to architectural lighting, including luminaire
design and advanced radiative transfer. For his
Masters thesis he created a method for analytically
creating a revolved reflector shape for a spherical
source to meet a required distribution. This method
made use of a flashed area approach as well as
the Tailored Edge Ray method of reflector construction.
Awards
and Accomplishments |
Chancellor's
Recognition Award for earning a 4.0 GPA
throughout college |
| College
of Engineering Academic Achievement Award |
| Dean's
List Designation for all 8 semesters |
| Nominated
for Colorado Engineering Council's Outstanding
Senior Award |
| Most
Outstanding Architectural Engineering Graduate |
| College
of Engineering Academic Scholarships for every
semester |
| Robert
J. Besal Scholarship for Lighting Education |
Optical
Design Experience
Ryan
has had the opportunity to work on a wide range
of optical design projects. In school he created
revolved downlight, extruded wall wash and extruded
indirect reflectors using analytic methods. Between
his 3rd and 4th years at college, he interned
in the optics group at Cooper Lighting's Peachtree
City Georgia Customer First Center. In addition
to several optical design projects, he had the
opportunity to tour a photometric lab, manufacturing
facility, anodizing facility, and spinning facility,
gaining invaluable manufacturing experience. Upon
joining LTI, Ryan has worked on a variety of optical
design projects.
Optical
Design Projects |
| Redesigned
upper and passive lower cones for a series
of downlights |
| MH
and CFL Downlight Lower Cones |
| Created
new design for square series of downlights |
| Type
III and IV Segmented Roadway / Area Optics |
Type
V square and Type IV area light optics -
spun with segmented inserts |
| Hydroformed
Plant Grow Light Reflector |
Minor
Surgical Light with Halogen Lamp |
| Extruded
LED Lens |
| Lenses
and Reflectors for 4 and 6 LED Arrays with
varying beam spreads |
| Simulating
Photometry for Skylights using Photopia |
Created
a spreadsheet tool to aid in design and
analysis for extruded and revolved prisms |
Employment
Experience
Ryan
held 3 summer internships during college. For
his Freshman and Sophomore summers he interned
at Merrick & Co as a mechnical engineer. There
he designed and analyzed mechanical systems for
labortory and military facilities. During his
Junior summer he worked at Cooper Lighting as
an optical engineer. During the school year, Ryan
worked for the Civil and Architectural Engineering
Department in several positions. He helped to
develop assignments and then acted as a teaching
assistant for a department computing class that
focuesed on Excel, Visual Basic for Applications,
and Matlab. He also assisted in the Lighting Lab,
completing construction of a new gonio-photometer.
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