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Facilities
Lee Hall
 The Department of Planning and Landscape
Architecture is located in Lee Hall where studio space is available.
The building contains classrooms and seminar rooms as well as the Emery Gunnin Library and two computer laboratories.
Student study space, computer workstations, two studios and a lounge space
area are available for the use of planning students.
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) Facilities at Clemson
 A
Geographic Information System is a methodology for overlaying, integrating,
and analyzing geographically referenced data, often assembled from different
sources. While the concept is not new, its merger with today's capabilities
of digital computers has revolutionized approaches to land use planning,
natural resource management, as well as housing and demographic analyses.
In the last 35 years, GIS technology has expanded rapidly and found a home
in a number of additional applications - cartography, environmental
assessment, real estate management, ecological research, transportation
analysis, business applications, market analysis, and more. GIS technology
provides powerful tools for understanding and analyzing some of the
pressing problems we face today such as rapid urbanization, neighborhood
dynamics and sprawl, habitat changes and the impacts of land use change on
the global environment. Recognizing the centrality of GIS problem-solving
capabilities, Clemson
University
has significantly expanded its capacity for GIS research and training with
a multimillion-dollar facilities expansion. Five student-computing labs
with 72 dedicated GIS workstations are centrally located in Barre, Hardin, and Lehotsky
Halls.
 These GIS labs were created for classwork and research projects in the design,
development and analysis of spatial databases, remote sensing images, as
well as the latest in modeling techniques. They provide a
"hands-on" learning environment. Students enjoy low
faculty-to-student ratios and access to a GIS workstation without having to
share with another student. Novell NetWare network infrastructure connects
all the GIS computers on campus. The University's Division of Computing and
Information Technology (DCIT) maintains the network and GIS labs. Students
are allowed up to 1 GB of personal disk space accessible from anywhere on
the network. Clemson's GIS facilities provide essential information tools
so that faculty and students can:
- Model
real-world problems by graphically analyzing data
- Conduct
"what-if" scenarios.
- Share
crucial information across University's network,
- Coordinate
and communicate key concepts between teams and campus organizations
- Communicate
research and project results by creating maps, tables and charts for
use in journal articles, term papers and theses.
- Use
state-of-the-art tools from the leading GIS and Remote sensing
software.
- Access
a rich collection of databases that provide both geospatial boundary
and statistical information (e.g. census, environmental, terrain,
geological, political, etc).
- Take
individual self-paced GIS courses from ESRI's
Virtual Campus on the Web free of charge.
 Clemson's commitment offers our students
the finest in higher educational GIS facilities. Labs at 24 Hardin Hall and
B108 Barre Hall are Planning'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 1 GB of memory and 17-inch LCD monitors. Each lab has a
HP 4600 color laser printer and network access to Barre's
HP DesignJet 36" plotter. The workstations
run Windows 2000 Professional and use the most current ESRI ArcGIS and ERDAS Imagine software. With this
arrangement, students have access to the world's most popular GIS and
remote sensing software and latest computer hardwre.
While connected to the University network, the labs have their own sub
network and server where students can access their data from anywhere on
campus.
Gunnin Library
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 main University library holds more than a million
books, periodicals and government publications. The library also provides
excellent research sources through over 75 research databases.
The Rudolph Lee Gallery
adds to the creative atmosphere of the college including fine arts
exhibits. Student, faculty, and well-known professionals representing all
disciplines of the college have exhibitions throughout the year.
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