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Lydia Sondhi, Ph.D. Department of Family and Consumer Sciences:   Consumer Affairs    Family and Consumer Sciences FA-10 California State University Long Beach (562) 985-4370 off (562) 985-4414 fax lsondhi@csulb.edu Office Hours for SPRING1999:    T/TH        2:00-3:30 No Summer hours will be maintained

Courses:

Applied Arts in Family and Consumer Sciences/ FCS 296 (will link to course page)

Applied arts in communicating design concepts for Family and Consumer Sciences professions (Lab 3 hours)

Family and Consumer Resource Management/ FCS 321 (will link to course page)

Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. Basic management principles applied to personal and family settings.  The role of values, goal formation, decision-making, planning, implementing, and evaluation of managerial behavior in diverse family and cultural settings are examined. (Lecture-discussion  3 hours)

Family Housing and the Urban Community/ FCS 322 (will link to course page)

Prerequisites:  Upper-division standing.  Critical analysis of family housing in the urban community including aspects of shelter, city and service providers.  Sociological, psychological, legislative, economic and technical factors are investigated.  Special attention is given to families of various structures and socioeconomic background. (Discussion 3 hours)

Housing Policies:  Public and Private/ FCS 422 (will link to course page)

Prerequisites: Upper division standing.  Federal, state, and local policies, programs and legislation concerning housing and urban development. Analysis of the housing industry and its influence on the consumer market. (Discussion 3 hours)

International Housing/ FCS 428

Prerequisites:  Upper division standing.  Theories and solutions of family housing in urban and rural communities throughout the world. (Discussion 3 hours)

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Education & Background:

Research Interests:

Green Design

Environmental consciousness is increasingly an issue that is confronting each of us but specifically is important for those whose professional decisions can and do impact the environment as well as the health, safety and welfare of clients.  For the design professions, the issue concerns the choices of building and interior finish materials that are used to build the environment; for the mechanical engineer, the issue is the specification of the appropriate HVAC system;  for the consumer, the issue concerns maintenance of the built environment.  Current research involves the editing and building of a second edition of a data base book entitled Green  Resource Reference and Handbook.

Publications & Honors:

Publications:

Baker, I., Sondhi, L.E. (1990).

"Entry -level competencies and attributes needed by interior design graduates: A survey of top interior design firms". Journal for Interior Design Education and Research. 15(2):35-40.

Lee, D.N., Sondhi, L.E. (1990).

"Built-in closets and storage in Korean apartments". Journal of Korean Home Management Association, 8(1): 17-22.

Walsh, L.M., Toma, R.B., Tuveson, R.V., Sondhi, L. (1990).

"Color Preferences and food choice among children". Journal of Psychology. 124(6): 645-653.

Sondhi, L.E., Stanley, S. (1990).

"Southern California professionals speak out: competencies for interior designers". Journal for Interior Design Education and Research. 16(1).

Conference Presentations and Proceeding Publications:

Baker, I., Sondhi, L.E. (1990).

"Entry-level competencies and attributes needed by interior design graduates". IDEC International Conference, April 19, 1990, San Francisco, Ca.

Kellett, Carol, Sondhi, L.E., Baker, I. (1990).

"Competencies needed by interior designers". AHEA National Conference, June 26, 1990, Austin Texas.

Sondhi, L.E., Toma, R. (1990).

"Dual Worker Marriages" Presentation to joint meeting of the South Coast and Orange County California Home Economics Association, February 20, 1990.

Sondhi, L.E., Buddharuksa, B. (1994).

"Lighting Demonstration Model". IDEC International Conference, April1994, Austin, Texas.

Cooper, L., Sondhi. (1995).

"Designers' and carpet manufacturers' knowledge and professional applicaiton of information related to sick building syndrome, building related illnesses, and volatile organic compounds". Presentation to Regional Conference of IDEC, November 11, 1995, Portland, Oregon.

Read, M., Sondhi, L. (1995).

"Administrative factors of pre-school design". Poster presentation to National Family and Child Studies Conference, November 15, 1995, Portland, Oregon.

Sondhi, L. (1996).

"Green Resource and Handbook". Presentationto International IDEC Conference, Denver, Colorado, April, 1996.

Honors, Academic Distinctions, Fellowships, Grants:

Omicron Nu, 1972

Phi Upsilon Omicron, 1972

Delegate to Delphi Conference, 1974:

AHEA, Lake Placid, New York

SCAC Grant, 1986:

3 units of release time and $750.00 for "Dual-worker marriages: their real and potential impact on the marketplace".

NCIDQ passage, 1987

CSULB ACS Computer grant, 1989

Baron's Who's Who in Interior Design, 1989, 1990, 1991

CSULB ACS Computer grant, 1990

Baron's International Who's Who in Interior Design, 1992-93

Illuminating Engineering Society competitive grant, 1994:

$4,500 worth of library materials

California Certified Interior Designer (CCID), 1992:

#3948

TEAM Grant, 1995:

$5,000 grant for "Interactive Multimedia Project: Interior Design Resource Library".

Current Professional Memberships:

Interior Design Educators' Council, 1985-present

Related Web Resources

FCS 222

FCS 321

FCS 322

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer:  1990 census look-up

http://www.tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse:  map of specific cities

http://www.builderonline.com:  Builder Magazine

http://www.nahb.org:   National Association of Home Builders

http:///www.hud.gov:  Housing and Urban Development

http://www.nhi.org/:  National Housing Institute

FCS 422

http://www.habitat.org/:  Habitat for Humanity home page

FCS 428

http://www.bestpractices.org/:  solutions to common urban problems facing the world's cities

http://well.com/www/cmty/index.html:  Intentional communities such as eco villages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, coops, urban housing coops

©1997 - This page was developed in electronic form and made available on-line by: Dr. Lydia Sondhi, Family and Consumer  Sciences, FIT: Faculty Integrating Technology - a program sponsored by CSULB New Media Center and the University Library.

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