Lighting Program Moves to UNH's Manchester Campus

It was announced recently by UNH that the Engineering Technology program will be moving to UNH Manchester in August 2002. Included in that move will be Prof. Emeritus Joseph B. Murdoch's Illumination Engineering program, which resided in ECE for many years until moving to ET in 1995. As part of the move, OSRAM SYLVANIA (OS) has announced that it will be providing a laboratory for the program at its South Willow St. plant in Manchester. Dr. Robert Levin, senior research scientist at OS and adjunct professor at UNH, is helping Prof. Murdoch design the laboratory. The renovation is being done this summer and there will be a dedication ceremony this fall. The lab will be named the "University of New Hampshire/ OSRAM SYLVANIA Lighting Laboratory". Beginning in the fall of 2002, students will have their lighting classes at the Millyard and their laboratory at OS. Commenting on the move, Tim Oliver, a graduate of the UNH lighting program and a product line manager at OS in Manchester, said "Our business is light bulbs, and (at UNH) you learn the basics of how light bulbs work, the basic theory and terminology, and you come in with a jump start for our industry. I'd hate to see them discontinue their program because they didn't have space for a lab".