Kurt Liepmann is another member of our 40 Under 40 Class who has worked across a broad set of applications ranging from lighting for emergency vehicles to horticultural lighting to tunable lighting for ambience and human wellbeing.
As an application engineer, Liepmann’s primary mission is helping make Osram customers’ products perform better. A colleague recalled when Liepmann developed a solar-powered sign with batteries that charged during the day and powered the sign at night. He went further and conceived a way to use the solar panel as a sensor for ambient light levels. That technology was awarded a patent in 2016.
A colleague said of Liepmann, “Customers like his openness, creativity, and ability to think outside the box to find the right solution. On his own initiative, Kurt combined his engineering and communications skills to create several comprehensive calculation tools that help customers select LEDs. Kurt saw that customers had a need for a simple tool for finding the right LEDs that would factor in many complicated issues such as drive currents, performance targets, and more.”
Liepmann earned an electrical engineering degree from Purdue University.
