UEENEEG183A - Provide advice on the application of energy efficient lighting for ambient and aesthetic effect
Overview
This unit covers advising customers on energy efficient lighting for ambient and aesthetic effects. It encompasses a basic knowledge of lighting principles, light source types, effects of colour, visual perception and interpreting manufacturers’ technical data and documenting advice given.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills and knowledge:
- colour of light sources;
- colour rendering index;
- effects of surface texture;
- visual perception;
- effects of indirect light;
- diffused light;
- psychology of lighting, perception and mood;
- function of ambience, and;
- control of lighting levels.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.