PRINCIPALS - A Short Resume:
P.C. (Manick) SORCAR, MSEE, PE, Senior Engineer, (CEO/President)
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Manick Sorcar (formal name Prafulla C. Sorcar) is a leading engineering
consultant, specializing in lighting since the early 1970s and is
a registered professional engineer in many States. Shortly after
graduating with his master’s degree in electrical engineering
from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), where he attended
on a full scholarship, Sorcar was a junior electrical engineer with
'Howard.Butterweck & Co', a reputable consulting engineering
firm of Denver, Colorado. Sorcar quickly worked his way up to the
position of vice-president when the company incorporated in 1974
recognizing him as one of the principals and changing its name to
"Butterweck-Sorcar Engineering, Inc." The firm is now
titled Sorcar
Engineering,
Inc., and he serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President.
Over the last three decades, Sorcar has been the project engineer
for a variety of small to large multimillion dollar projects which
include Denver International Airport, Colorado Convention Center,
laboratories for Colorado Department of Health and Environment,
a palace for prince H.H. Faisal Bin Sultan in Saudi Arabia, and
fitness & sport centers in Japan.
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An expert in energy saving and architectural lighting design,
Sorcar is the author of three texts on the subject. "Rapid
Lighting Design & Cost Estimating" (McGraw-Hill, 1979)
was a ‘Book of the Month’ awarded by the Architects'
Book Club, "Energy Saving Lighting
Systems" (Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1982) a practical application
oriented reference book, and "Architectural
Lighting For Commercial Interiors" (John Wiley & Sons,
1987) - a widely popular book dealing with the sciences, arts, psychology,
physiology, aesthetics, and vision aspects of lighting design. This
book is a recommended book by the Department of Energy, U.S. Government,
for their Federal Energy Management Program 'FEMP' and Energy Efficiency
for Commercial Buildings 'EREC Program', whose mission is to 'reduce
the cost of government by advancing energy efficiency'. His last
two books have been in use as a text for Architectural Engineering
at several universities for undergraduate courses including at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, and PennState University, Pennsylvania,
USA. All his books are listed in "The Lighting Source Catalog"
of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, available
in libraries, book stores and on several websites including Amazon.com
and Barnes&Noble.com
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