Automotive lighting is critical to passenger safety, comfort, and vehicle styling. The technology used in automotive lighting has rapidly expanded to make the lighting safer and more pleasing to customers. This course provides broad information about automotive lighting systems with emphasis on lighting functions, effectiveness, and technologies. The intent is to assist participants in gaining sufficient knowledge about automotive lighting and its importance in overall vehicle design and development. Since only the exterior lighting devices on the ground vehicles are regulated by the federal and local governments, and standardized by the SAE Lighting Committee and the international communities, this course will only address automotive exterior lighting.

This course has been approved by the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR) for 13 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Upon completion of this course, accredited reconstructionists should mail a copy of their course certificate and the $5 participant CEU fee to ACTAR, PO Box 1493, North Platte, NE 69103. 

• Describe various automotive lighting technologies
• Articulate the legal aspects and implications related to automotive lighting
• Examine safety measurements used with lighting functions and human factors costs
• Discuss the latest advancements in lighting technologies and trends in lighting styling

This course is of benefit to a wide audience, including: Automotive body engineers responsible for lighting and vehicle interface and integration, vehicle stylists who are interested in lighting effects on vehicle cosmetics, regulatory personnel involved with the legal specifications of automotive lighting, marketing specialists who are interested in customers' preferences based on the relationship of human vision and lighting, and newcomers in the automotive industry who need to obtain a general overview of lighting.

Dr. Jianzhong Jiao is an internationally recognized expert for LEDs and lighting technology development, products design, testing, standards, and regulations. He is an independent consultant in the areas of LEDs and lighting technology, product, and business strategies, standards, regulations and compliances, civil and intellectual property litigations, and technology investments. He is the past Chair of the SAE Lighting Committee, past Chair of NGLIA, past Chair of NEMA SSL Section Technical Committee, and current Chair or active member of the committees in SAE, IES, ANSI, NEMA, UL, ASABE, CIE-USA, IEEE, JEDEC, and SEMI. He is the Organizer and Chair for SAE World Congress Lighting Technology Conference, member of the Organizing Committee and Chair of SPIE SSL Symposium, member of the Technical Panel of Strategies in Light (SIL). Dr. Jiao also teaches seminars and short courses for SAE, SPIE, SIL, and Light Fair International. He also served as an adjunct professor teaching physics and electrical engineering courses at Purdue University and Lawrence Technological University. Dr. Jiao holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, a M.S. degree in Applied Physics, and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is titled to 9 U.S. Patents and has over 40 technical papers and magazine articles, and given numerous invited presentations to international events. Dr. Jiao is an SAE Follow, a Senior Member of SPIE, and has received multiple industry awards.

"An excellent overview that encompasses the latest technologies as well as the fundamentals necessary to understand them."