Program Website: www.grad.clemson.edu/brochure/EDP
Introduction
The Southeast is growing rapidly. This growth has brought relative prosperity along with inevitable growing pains. In the process, the landscape has changed from rural fields and woodlands to coastal resorts, office, commercial and industrial complexes and sprawling residential communities. With this changing landscape, the character of the region will be influenced increasingly by the quality of the natural and built environment.
The mission of the PhD program in environmental design and planning (EDP) is to prepare a new generation of academics and professionals to deal with the diverse and complex issues relating to the next round of human development. The program is interdisciplinary, drawing a core from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, real estate development and construction science and management. As a graduate of this program, you will be well prepared to address increasingly complex issues relating to human settlement patterns and the built environment. The program will develop strong linkages with both the development and conservation communities within the state and region.
Program of Study
The EDP program is designed as an interdisciplinary, three-year post-master’s degree program. The program consists of 70-74 hours. You will most likely enter the program with a master’s degree in one of the design disciplines of architecture or landscape architecture, planning or construction science and management. If you prepare in advance, it may take slightly less than three years to complete the program. If you are from another discipline, such as engineering, business or the social sciences, you may be required to take prerequisite course work, as the core courses require some previous academic experience.
The curriculum is divided into five content areas: core courses, concentration and elective courses, comprehensive examination and dissertation research. You will select a field area from the traditional fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning or construction science and management upon which to build disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary foundations. Concentration areas include
regional and community development and design; built environment and health; restoration, sustainability and land ecology; and technology, materials and construction processes.
The curriculum includes 31 hours of core course work, 15-18 hours in your concentration area and up to nine hours of elective work for a total of 46-49 credit hours. Those hours include advanced theory/history, advanced methods courses generally taken outside the college, a readings course within a primary field area, a contemporary issues seminar, courses in research design and teaching techniques and a colloquium. The core provides a foundation with some flexibility to tailor curriculum to individual needs within primary fields of study as well as a forum to address issues of the built environment in an interdisciplinary setting.
Concentration and elective courses may be taken within or outside the college. These courses will add both breadth and depth in your area of concentration. You will develop an individualized course of study to reflect your individual focus and career objectives. You may add to your concentration course work, select diverse offerings to complement your concentration or develop a minor with nine hours in a second concentration. Course work must be approved by a faculty advisor and committee members.
You will be assigned a program advisor upon entering the program. A program evaluation is conducted, and your dissertation advisor and committee will be selected at the end of your first full year of study. A curriculum plan for the remainder of the degree program is developed at that time. Comprehensive and oral examinations are administered following the completion of the second full year in the program. Dissertation credit cannot be taken until comprehensive exams are scheduled. You will develop a dissertation in your area of concentration and take a minimum of 24 hours in dissertation research.
Research Facilities
The program is located in Lee Hall where studio space is available. The building contains classrooms and a seminar room as well as the Emery Gunnin Library and one computer laboratory.
Five student-computing labs with 72 dedicated GIS workstations are centrally located in Barre, Hardin and Lehotsky Halls. These GIS labs were created for course work and research projects in the design, development and analysis of spatial databases and remote-sensing images as well as the latest in modeling techniques. They provide a hands-on learning environment. You will enjoy a low student-faculty ratio and easy access to GIS workstations. The Novell NetWare network infrastructure connects all of the GIS computers on campus. The University’s IT division maintains the network and GIS labs. You will be allowed up to one GB of personal disk space that is accessible from anywhere on the network.
Clemson’s GIS facilities provide essential information tools so that faculty members and students can model real-world problems by graphically analyzing data; conducting “what-if” scenarios; sharing crucial information across the University’s network; coordinating and communicating key concepts between teams and campus organizations; communicating research and project results by creating maps, tables and charts for use in journal articles, term papers and theses; using state-of-the-art tools from the leading GIS and remote-sensing software; accessing a rich collection of databases that provide both geospatial boundary and statistical information (census, environmental, terrain, geological, political, etc.) and taking individual, self-paced GIS courses from ESRI’s Virtual Campus on the web, free of charge.
Clemson’s commitment offers you the finest GIS facilities. Labs at 24 Hardin Hall and B108 Barre Hall are the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture’s primary GIS facilities. These labs have 24-hour access. They contain a smart classroom, equipped with a video and data projector. Hardin has 15 IBM 2GHz workstations with 21-inch monitors and 512 MB of memory. The Barre Planning Lab has 14 Dell dual-processor workstations with one GB of memory and 17-inch LCD monitors. Each lab has an HP 4600 color laser printer and network access to Barre’s HP DesignJet 36-inch plotter. The workstations run the most current ESRI ArcGIS and ERDAS Imagine software. With this arrangement, you will have access to the world’s most popular GIS and remote-sensing software and latest computer hardware. While connected to the University network, the labs have their own sub-network and server where you can access your data from anywhere on campus.
The Gunnin Library in Lee Hall has more than 40,000 books, 85,000 slides, professional journals and periodicals and a planning document collection. The University’s main library holds more than a million books, periodicals and government publications. The library also provides excellent research sources through more than 75 research databases. The Rudolph Lee Gallery adds to the creative atmosphere of the college, including fine arts exhibits. Students, faculty members and well-known professionals representing all disciplines of the college have exhibitions throughout the year.
Cost of Study
Tuition for 2007-08 is $3,641 per semester for in-state students and $7,285 per semester for nonresidents. Off-campus rates are $440 per hour for in-state students and $880 per hour for nonresidents. Graduate assistants pay a flat rate of $950 per semester. Graduate fellows pay South Carolina resident fees.
Financial Aid
Each fall, a number of doctoral assistantships are available that provide at least $16,000 per year plus a tuition reduction. Additional financial aid may be obtained through other college sources, faculty research projects and competitive University fellowships.
The program has approximately 12 students. Of those, 17 percent are women, 60 percent are full-time students, and eight percent are international students.
Faculty Listing
• David Allison, MArch, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture and Health. Interests include: healthcare design and healthy communities.
• Dina Battisto, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture. Interests include: healthcare design, gerontology and healthy communities.
• Dennis Bausman, PhD, Professor, Department of Construction Science and Management. Interests include: construction costing and processes.
• Vikki Chanse, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Interests include landscape ecology, community participation and sustainable communities.
• Shima Clarke, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Construction Science and Management. Interests include: construction processes.
• Anne Dunning, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Interests include: transportation planning.
• Caitlin Dyckman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Interests include: environmental planning, water resources and legal issues.
• Cliff Ellis, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Interests include: sustainable development and urban design.
• J. Terrence Farris, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture; Director, Center for Real Estate Development and Director, Master of Real Estate Development program; CRE, SIOR, AICP. Interests include: real estate development, housing and economic development.
• Keith Green, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture. Interests include: animated architecture and urban design.
• Mickey Lauria, PhD, Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Interests include: theory, research design, housing and community development.
• Roger Liska, EdD, Professor and Director, EDP Program, Department of Construction Science and Management and Director, National Center for the Improvement of Construction Management and Processes. Interests include: construction and personnel management.
• James London, PhD, Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Director, City and Regional Planning program, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Interests include: regional planning, environmental planning and economic development.
• Daniel Nadenicek, MLA, Professor and Chair, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Interests include: land ecology, history of landscape architecture and sustainable communities.
• Barry Nocks, PhD, Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Associate Dean for Research and Outreach, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities; AICP. Interests include: planning processes, strategic planning and health planning.
• Christine Piper, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Construction Science. Interests include: construction management and scheduling.
• Ray Schneider, MBA, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Construction Science and Management. Interests include: construction processes.
• Umit Yilmaz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Director, Landscape Architecture programs. Interests include: landscape ecology and urban design.
Applying
In addition to the Clemson University Graduate School application (www.grad.clemson.edu/Admission.php), you are strongly encouraged to submit a portfolio of design work. Your portfolio should emphasize skills and a comprehensive representation of creative works. If you have no prior design experience, you should demonstrate creative ability through drawing, photography, art, computer or a related creative field. Your portfolio plays a major role in the admissions decision process. The deadline for application and all supporting material, including the portfolio, is February 1. Review of candidates will begin after this date.
Your application will not be considered for fall admission until it is complete. Please plan to take your GRE and/or TOEFL exams accordingly, as it may take up to a month for Clemson to receive your official scores. In addition, you will only be considered for fall admission because there is no spring entry into the EDP program.
For More Information
Dr. Roger Liska, Program Director and Professor of Construction Science and Management
125 Lee Hall
Box 340501
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina 29634
Telephone: 864-656-3878
Email: riggor@clemson.edu
