Events

The Minneapolis–Saint Paul Section has an active calendar that includes various educational courses as well as multiple opportunities to network and socialize with industry peers. To keep abreast with our upcoming events follow the calendar below.

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Oct
14
Thu
2021 Illumination Awards @ The Commodore Hotel
Oct 14 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

IES MSP is committed to the health and safety of our event attendees. The following City of St. Paul and CDC guidelines will be followed at the IA Banquet to ensure a safe environment and minimize the risk of transmission of the COVID-19 virus:

– We recommend that all attendees wear face coverings at all times during this event except when actively eating or drinking.

– If you are experiencing the COVID virus symptoms identified by the CDC, please do not attend this program.

– IES MSP has secured the entire Commodore Restaurant to allow for both active networking/socializing and maintain proper social distancing.

Please contact Ann Kvaal at 651-489-1321 or [email protected] with any questions or concerns. We look forward to seeing you at the 2021 Illumination Awards Banquet!

Register by Wednesday, October 6, 2021! 

Nov
9
Tue
Current Considerations for Lighting Education @ Virtual Option or In-person at KFI Engineers
Nov 9 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Current Considerations for Lighting Education

TUESDAY, November 9, 2021
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Your choice: In-person or Virtual Event

 

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Pending Approval for 1 CEU  

 

Please join Professors Abimbola Asojo and Mary Guzowski as they discuss current considerations for lighting education at the University of Minnesota College of Design. Their discussion will focus on emerging trends in lighting education and the collaborative new lighting design undergraduate/graduate minor they developed through the support of the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. They will also discuss how the lighting curriculum at the University of Minnesota is being expanded to integrate topics related to health and well-being.

Presenters:

Abimbola Asojo, Associate Dean for Research, Creative Scholarship and Engagement and a Professor of Interior Design, University of Minnesota

Mary Guzowski, Professor in the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota

How/Where: This will be a free event and participants can choose to attend virtually or gather in-person to watch the presentation. The presenters will be joining us virtually.

For those that are interested in joining in-person for the presentation, we will gather at KFI (670 County B Road W, St. Paul, MN 55113) in the Training Room to watch. In-person attendees are asked to arrive between 4:15pm – 4:25pm for registration.  We will have some light hors d’ouevres and social time following the presentation. Please note: masks are required at KFI when you are not eating or drinking.

In-person Location:
KFI Engineers
670 County B Road West, Saint Paul, MN, 55113

Those participating virtually will be sent connection information prior to the event.

Speakers:

Abimbola Asojo, Associate Dean for Research, Creative Scholarship and Engagement and a Professor of Interior Design, University of Minnesota

Professor Abimbola Asojo is the Associate Dean for Research, Creative Scholarship and Engagement and a Professor of Interior Design. Her teaching areas are architectural lighting design; design and human factors; computing and design; corporate design; and commercial design. She actively engages her students in community based service-learning projects that tackle local and global societal challenges. Her research areas are cross-cultural design, architectural lighting design, African architecture, computing and design, globalization and design, sustainable design, post-occupancy evaluation and K-12 spaces.

Maru Guzowski, Professor in the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota

Mary Guzowski is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. She teaches and conducts research related to daylighting, biophilic, and sustainable design. Her recent research has focused on aesthetic and ecological innovations in daylighting and biophilic design, including a recent book entitled the Art of Architectural Daylighting: Design and Technology (London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2018). She is currently collaborating on a three-year grant with Emilie Snell Rood (PI) and a team of faculty from the College of Biological Sciences and Landscape Architecture on a new grant entitled A Framework for Function in Biology and Bio-Inspired Design, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The project brings together faculty from the College of Biological Sciences and College of Design to develop, test, and apply a conceptual framework for function in biology and bio-inspired design to support engineers and designers with conceptual tools to navigate biological space. As a recent recipient of a new Nuckolls Grant for Lighting Education, she and Abimbola Asojo (Interior Design) are revising the Lighting Design Minor to integrate issues of health and wellbeing. Mary recently coordinated the Biophilic Net-Positive Design Project with a team of architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design faculty in the College of Design to explore biophilic net-positive design across scales and disciplines. The project is continuing under the title of the Bio-Design Network.

Event Fees

IES Member – Free
Non-Member – Free
Student – Free

 

Please register by Monday, November 8th at 3 pm

Dec
14
Tue
Lighting for Livestock Animals @ Virtual
Dec 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

“Lighting for Livestock Animals

TUESDAY, December 14, 2021
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Online Event

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Pending Approval for 1 CEU  

 

Please join IES MSP for a “Lighting for Livestock Animals” virtual program on Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 3 pm featuring Aaron Stephan.

Learning objectives for this program:

• Review our understanding of visual and non-visual perception mechanisms in poultry and how this affects their reproductive physiology.

• Highlight our recent work to develop a “lighting recipe” for efficient and welfare-enhancing growth in chickens.

• Present data on how lighting is being used for biosecurity applications within the animal agriculture segment.

Presenter:

Aaron Stephan brings over 15 years of scientific research experience spanning Microbiology to Plant Science to Vertebrate Sensory Biology. In his role as Director of Biological Research and Development, Aaron leads photobiological research activities to develop new technologies that integrate light’s influence on physiology and welfare in poultry and livestock. Aaron conducts and coordinates research between industry partners, academic teams, and ONCE’s own laboratories, research farm, and lighting expert colleagues at Signify.

Aaron holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining ONCE, Aaron was a Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California San Diego. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the International Poultry Welfare Alliance.

Please register by Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 12 pm

Webinar: Lighting for Livestock Animals
Dec 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Please join IES MSP for a “Lighting for Livestock Animals” virtual program on Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 3 pm featuring Aaron Stephan.

Learning objectives for this program:

  • • Review our understanding of visual and non-visual perception mechanisms in poultry and how this affects their reproductive physiology.

    • Highlight our recent work to develop a “lighting recipe” for efficient and welfare-enhancing growth in chickens.

    • Present data on how lighting is being used for biosecurity applications within the animal agriculture segment.

Presenter:

Aaron Stephan brings over 15 years of scientific research experience spanning Microbiology to Plant Science to Vertebrate Sensory Biology. In his role as Director of Biological Research and Development, Aaron leads photobiological research activities to develop new technologies that integrate light’s influence on physiology and welfare in poultry and livestock. Aaron conducts and coordinates research between industry partners, academic teams, and ONCE’s own laboratories, research farm, and lighting expert colleagues at Signify.

Aaron holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining ONCE, Aaron was a Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California San Diego. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the International Poultry Welfare Alliance.

Jan
11
Tue
Learning, Lighting & Color @ Virtual Option or In-person at Hummingbird Design Lab
Jan 11 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

“Learning, Lighting & Color

TUESDAY, January 11, 2022

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Your choice: In-person or Virtual Event

 

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Pending Approval for 1 CEU  

Please join IES MSP for the Jan. 11  “Lighting, Learning & Color” program featuring Randy Fielding, AIA, Founding Partner and Innovation Leader at Fielding International, an interdisciplinary architecture and education firm that designs schools where learners thrive.

Learning Objectives for this program:

• Learn about the core principles of learning that drive effective lighting design in schools and universities.

• Learn about myths in lighting and color and schools

• Understand four broad categories of lighting in environments where learners thrive.

• Learn about the connection between movement, color and effective learning.

Presenter:

Randy Fielding, AIA, is the Founding Partner and Innovation Leader at Fielding International, an interdisciplinary architecture and education firm that designs schools where learners thrive. As a champion for the firm’s mission, Randy serves as a thought leader, learning collaborator, and design mentor. His work, which extends from early childhood to higher education and across 50 countries, has earned more than a dozen international design awards.

Randy’s article “Learning, Lighting & Color” was first published by the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) in 2006. An alternate version was published by Edutopia entitled “What They See Is What We Get: A Primer on Light, Ten myths about lighting and color in schools. While the technology has changed significantly during the last 15 years, the core design principles remain largely the same, and Randy continues to expand and share the knowledge base.

You can see Randy’s latest publications on Place-based Education at GettingSmart.com, and also access his firm’s open source library of design patterns for creative learning environments at SchoolPatterns.com

How/Where: Participants can choose to attend virtually or in-person.

For those interested in joining in-person, we will gather at Hummingbird Design Lab (3453 Hennepin Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN). In-person attendees are asked to arrive between 3:45pm – 3:55pm for registration.

Please note: For the safety of all attendees, IES MSP requires all in-person participants to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and/or negative Covid-19 test within 24 hours of this program. Also if you register to attend in-person but are feeling ill prior to the program, we ask that you join this program virtually.

Event Fee: $15.00
For the safety of all registrants we will be choosing to forgo food/drinks, however, all registered attendees will receive a $10 GrubHub gift card emailed to them prior to the program (that may be used at any time).

In person attendance will be capped to 30 people – so sign up early if you are interested in that option.

In-person Location: Hummingbird Design Lab

3453 Hennepin Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55408

Those participating virtually will be sent connection information prior to the event.

Please register by Monday, January 10th at 3 pm

Mar
3
Thu
Fundamentals of Lighting 2022 @ To be determined
Mar 3 @ 5:00 pm

Complete details for the 2022 Fundamentals of Lighting will be available in early 2022.

Apr
28
Thu
Webinar: A New Sales Pitch
Apr 28 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Lighting projects are often evaluated on an energy-based ROI even though the value of non-energy benefits (NEBs) may be far more important. Networked lighting systems, coupled with quality lighting design, can achieve deeper energy savings while improving the productivity and comfort of the people occupying commercial spaces. By shifting marketing tactics, the industry can help customers look beyond just the ‘energy story’ of networked lighting controls to include some of the less obvious but highly valuable benefits. This webinar will discuss how networked lighting systems achieve multiple building goals that enhance the space, achieve maximum energy savings, provide an economical solution, and above all deliver quality lighting for the people within the space.

Webinar participants are eligible for one (1) IES Continuing Education Unit (CEU).

PRESENTERS:

Dan MellingerDan Mellinger
Dan Mellinger is a Principal with Energy Futures Group, a Vermont-based firm that works to advance clean energy policies. Dan specializes in the design, planning and administration of energy efficiency programs, with an emphasis on commercial and industrial sectors. He provides technical consultative services on efficient technology capabilities, market analysis, technology adoption, energy savings potential, industry standards, training, and financing. He is experienced in the policy and regulation of goal setting, budgets, annual reporting, and performance incentives. Dan has consulted on hundreds of commercial efficiency projects across many jurisdictions nationwide and has designed and administered industry-leading commercial lighting programs. He received his degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, is a licensed Professional Engineer, is a Certified Energy Manager, and is Lighting Certified.

Liesel Whitney-SchulteLiesel Whitney-Schulte
Liesel Whitney-Schulte, LC, is the program director for the DLC, where her responsibilities include oversight of stakeholder outreach and engagement; program design, development and management; and providing support for the Solid-State Lighting Qualified Product List and Networked Lighting Controls programs to help advance quality lighting products in the market.

Aluz Lighting

A special thanks to April’s Educational Webinar Platform sponsor:
ALUZ Architectural Lighting

 

TopGolf Social @ TopGolf
Apr 28 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Please join IES MSP for a long awaited, in-person social gathering at TopGolf! This is a great opportunity to network with other members while practicing your golf swing for the upcoming season. There will be great conversation, beverages, appetizers, and (hopefully) warm weather.

Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm

Location
TopGolf – Brooklyn Center
6420 N. Camden Avenue
Brooklyn Center, MN 55430
https://topgolf.com/us/minneapolis/

Tickets:
IES MSP Member – $50
Guest – $75

Please register by Thursday, April 21, 2022

May
10
Tue
Luminous Sculpture @ City of Minneapolis Public Service Building
May 10 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Please join IES-MSP on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 for a tour of the illuminated art in the new City of Minneapolis Public Service Building. We will be hosted by Mary Altman, City of Minneapolis Public Arts Administrator, and Talia Moorman, City of Minneapolis Public Arts Coordinator, along with Michael Cohen of Schuler Shook, lighting director for the project, and Ian Adams of Gopher Stage Lighting, lighting and controls technical coordinator for the project.

When: Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Where: City of Minneapolis Public Service Building – Where to park
505 Fourth Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN 55415

Schedule:

4:00pm – Registrations open in the Ground Floor conference room where light hors d’oeuvres will be served along with non-alcoholic beverages (water, juice, soda).

4:30pm – A brief presentation on the background of the project and what we will be looking at on the tour.

4:45pm – Break into two groups and tour the art installations in the facility

5:45pm – Reconvene in the Ground Floor Conference Room for a brief Q & A

6:00pm – Conclusion of the event

Mask are currently recommended for those who are vulnerable and unvaccinated. The elevator lobbies are small, so you may want to use them in that location. We will have facemasks available.

For more information about the artwork and artists, visit the public art pages on the City’s website.

Please register by noon on Monday, May 9, 2022

Sep
13
Tue
IES MSP 2022 Illumination Awards Gala @ The Commodore Hotel
Sep 13 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Register by Friday, September 2!