Clemson University
Clemson University's Zucker Family Graduate Education Center
Clemson University's Zucker Family Graduate Education Center
Clemson University's Zucker Family Graduate Education Center
Clemson University's Zucker Family Graduate Education Center
Clemson University's Zucker Family Graduate Education Center

Clemson University opens graduate education center

Oct. 24, 2016
70,000-square-foot building opens in North Charleston, S.C.

Clemson University has held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of its new $21.5 million Zucker Family Graduate Education Center in North Charleston, S.C.

The university says the 70,000-square-foot glass and steel building is situated at the Clemson University Restoration Institute, which also is home to the Warren Lasch Conservation Center and the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center.

The Zucker Family Graduate Education Center offers master’s degrees and doctorates in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering; a doctorate in computer science; and a master of fine arts in digital production arts.

The facility has dozens of naturally lighted classrooms, all of which offer real-time video conferencing with the university’s main campus. It also has a variety of public and private collaboration spaces.

Other spaces in the building: a video production room, green-screen/motion capture room, virtual reality simulator, a 35-person theater for screening student work or movies and a rooftop garden that will enable students to work in the fresh air.

The Zucker center also features glass walls, giant monitors and wood beams reclaimed from the dilapidated World War I-era warehouse that sat on the property before construction on the center began last year.

The architects are LS3P and SmithGroupJJR.

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