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The IALD Education Trust Grant to Enhance Lighting Design Education was developed to provide the educational continuity of five years of funding, enhancing architectural lighting design education at the university level. The recipient will receive $50,000 USD over the course of five years, for a total of $250,000 USD.
The IALD Education Trust is pleased to announce the 2007 recipient is the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, College of Engineering, and principle investigator Dr. Kevin Houser. Project CANDLE, as submitted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is a proposal to "Create an Alliance to Nurture Design in Lighting Education."
"Almost without exception, students who might become committed to architectural lighting design education find that support dollars and salary dollars are significantly higher in other areas," said Phil Gabriel, President of the IALD Education Trust Board of Directors. "Because of this, the IALD Education Trust is making a proactive effort in support of high-quality architectural lighting design education by making a significant financial commitment to those educational activities in order to demonstrate that those activities are worthwhile and challenge the lighting industry to follow suit."
Conceived as an industry/university partnership to advance lighting professions, the two principal objectives of project CANDLE are to increase the number of people that make lighting their vocation, and to ensure that coursework and educational experiences are responsive to industry needs such that graduating students have the right set of attitudes, skills and abilities for careers in the lighting professions.
These objectives will be achieved through a series of activities:
Over the past ten years, the gap between positions available to graduates with architectural lighting design qualifications and the actual graduates qualified to fill those positions has widened. During the same period of time, industry support to colleges and universities to enhance architectural lighting design education through research support, faculty support, or curriculum support has essentially evaporated.
The IALD Education Trust Grant to Enhance Lighting Design Education has been developed to tackle this problem, and draw attention to the need for industry support of higher education needs.
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