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BE 550 is one of the core courses in the Ph.D. Program in the Built Environment.   In the first year, the course format is that of a weekly meeting at which faculty and students make presentations of current built environment research issues and professional projects. It thus serves as a venue in which students identify their research interests early on in order to receive peer review and advice on their research projects. It also provides a synthetic and interdisciplinary introduction to and regular updates on emerging problems and directions in built environment research and practice. In the second year, students spend the Autumn Quarter in a Teaching Practicum and then the Winter and Spring Quarters with individualized faculty or professional mentors in contracted, individual research or professional practice work to produce an agreed-upon product (for example, a grant proposal, journal article, or parallel professional outcome such as a report or information technology tool), which they will present for usual peer evaluation.