Dr. Edward F. Kelley, a retired physicist of and guest scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), offers a short course on display metrology in Longmont, Colorado. KELTEK can also bring this course to your facility. The course now consists of three days of lecture and 3D-computer-model video demonstrations of laboratory measurement activities and problems. (This course was originally presented at NIST, but NIST no longer offers the course.)

Date(s):    March 23-25, 2010 and April 12-14, 2010
Please contact us if you need other dates. We are very flexible.

For specific program content information not covered in the Technical Program page, contact:

Edward F. Kelley (ed@keltekresearch.com)
303-651-0787

Please Note:  Visit the registration page to register. Please contact us one month in advance if you want the technical accessories kit.

• Cost to attend the lectures is $1000 per person. 
• An optional technical accessories kit is available for $500. See the Instructor and Technical Program page for more information. The kit is not needed for the course.
  
• Bring your laptops if you wish (not required). Wireless Internet is supplied by the hotel at no cost.

Do you need the information in this course? Consider comments from two former attenders:

"This course is of great value to anyone that needs to do display measurements.  Students ranging from beginning engineers to well experienced display experts will find this course quite useful. Both companies that manufacture and sell displays or companies that buy displays to put in end-user-products should consider sending their technical staff to this course. The principles taught will significantly increase the quality of the company's product and also the efficiency of production. Much of the material covered cannot be found in any university lecture or book. ... I have worked in the display field for 37 years as an experimentalist and have made many display measurements. In spite of my experience, this course was of great value to me. I learned of many measurement pitfalls that were not initially obvious to me. I will likely never take another display measurement without using something that I learned in this course. ... Dr. Kelley is an excellent teacher. His lectures are well prepared with very clear notes.  He really knows the material well and is quick to answer the student’s questions. He not only covers the fundamentals but also serves as an 'expert’s expert'." -- Dr. Larry Webber, former president of the Society for Information Display and internationally known display expert.

"This course is essential for anyone tasked with objectively measuring a display. The source of error is hidden from the uninitiated, so wildly wrong conclusions are easy to obtain. After this course no one will pick up a light meter with the foolish notion that characterizing an electronic sign or measuring contrast is something that can be done easily. A respect for the difficulty of the task is the first step to its solution. This course alerts the engineer to the dangers and provides practical methods to work around them. The lectures and course are complete with examples and tasks that are practical." -- Dr. Jim Larimer, ImageMetrics, an internationally known vision expert.

Previous Courses: Ratings of the first 11 courses at NIST averaged 4.6 out of 5 (std. dev. 0.1) with over 100 students from all over the world: Brazil, Botswana, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, and USA.

Rocky Mountains: The area around Longmont and Boulder is beautiful! You may want to plan for an extended visit of the area to enjoy the mountains while you are here (e.g., Estes Park [pronounced eh'-stehs, short "e"s], Rocky Mountain National Park, Winter Park, Aspen, Vail, skiing, hiking, biking, etc.*).