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Ingineria Iluminatului 2010; 12, 2:71-72
Anniversary
Professor Ramon SAN MARTIN - a life for lighting
Professor SAN MARTIN at the retirement
time. Ramon joins the elite of professors
leaving didactical activity after a life in
service of Light & Lighting.
Ramon SAN MARTIN is a discrete
personality, performing his research
activity in the silence of his office from
the Departamento de Proyectos de
Ingeniería of the UPC - Universitat
Politécnica de Cataluña.
During years 1990 I have met his name in
a few volumes of lighting conferences and
I have personally met Ramon at the Right
Light Conference - Arnhem 1993. With its
savage beard, he seemed more like an
experienced sea wolf wandering on land. I
was there at my third participation at a
lighting conference organized in the
Western world, after the political changes
in my country. I approached him and
asked for copies of a few of his papers.
I discovered a warm person, an open
character.
I had the honour and happiness to be
accepted among his friends and to
cooperate at more specific activities, as
scientific papers and research programs.
Ramon supported me with a research
mobility (1.12.1995 - 1.03.1996) at his
Department, granted by the Spanish
Ministry of Science and Education, and
we cooperated at the development of the
Energy and Costs Management of the
Lighting Installations - MECOSIL 2000 -
Research and Development project under
the frame of an international cooperation
program Romania - Spain, Romanian Ministry
of Research and Technology, 1998-2000.
We also cooperated at the accomplishment
of a very important project for the lighting
education in the Technical University of
Cluj-Napoca: “Lighting Engineering Centre
- LEC - an excellence centre for consultancy
and continuous formation in the lighting
field in direct link with the needs of the
labour market”, Tempus-Phare CMS -
Compact Measures Project - CME-03551-97,
EU (14.12.1998 - 14.03.2000). The LEC
web page http://users.utcluj.ro/~lec has
more information on this project.