Names: Ethan Angress, Dipankar Chakravorty, Moshfiq Ahmed,
How To Make Campus Safe Again:
Proposal Project
Intro:
The feeling of safety is extremely important for a student to prosper in an educational environment. The safety precautions at the City College of New York are inadequate in order to protect students from the dangers of the real world. The current security measures implemented for entrance into the school consists of a security guard making sure that the person entering has a school ID card. Most people are aware that this system is not very effective, as it is easy to tell that the stationed guard does not look at all the IDs of people entering the building. In fact, simply showing any card that is in the general shape of the ID may grant you unquestioned access into the building. This would be nearly impossible for the guard to do because there are many times in which a large group of students enter the building at one time.
This is extremely unsafe because any person from the street could walk into the building. In the most extreme case, this person could plant a bomb in the school are cause harm to a significant amount of students. Most people feel unsafe due to these reasons (See A1). Additionally, most students feel that adding turnstyles to the entrances of buildings that require a swipe in order to enter would make the campus safer for students (See A2). The addition of these turnstyles would greatly increase the safety in the academic buildings on campus and help the students to prosper due to a safer environment to study and work in.
Action Plan:
ID distribution:
We need to distribute new IDs to rising Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors and incoming Freshmen as well as staff.
For New ID distribution the current students and staff members will have the whole of April to the last day of Class in May to swap their old IDs with the New ID that has the Feature to swipe.o8
For incoming Freshmen, they will receive their IDs during freshman orientation or during the 2 weeks of the Fall Semester.
Turnstile Installations:
There are total 8 buildings that require the installation of turnstiles:
North Academic Center – 3 entrances, 7 turnstiles
Marhsark Science Building – 2 entrances, 4 turnstiles
Shephard Hall – 2 entrances, 3 turnstiles
Grove School of Engineering – 1 entrance, 2 turnstiles
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture – 1 entrance , 2 turnstiles
Wingate Hall – 1 entrance, 2 turnstiles
Townsend Harris Hall – 1 entrance, 3 turnstiles
Compton and Goethals Hall – 1 entrance, 2 turnstiles
2) The installation process will begin when the summer term starts.
Costs and Benefits:
We will have to make new IDs for everyone who belongs in our university. There are 13,315 undergraduate and 3,229 graduate students in City College. Aside from students, we also have to create IDs for the 1,449 faculty members. After researching various types of ID cards we found one that would be a great fit for us. “IDentiPROX™ PVC Proximity Card with 1/2″ HICO Magnetic Stripe” are secure, easy to use and very durable. The vendor that we selected agreed to provide up to 18,000 cards for a price of $35,500. To select a proper turnstile, we looked at every entrance in City College and decided what size turnstiles would fit all of them. We came down to “EX100-R” from TURNSTILES.US. Its compact size would allow us to put several turnstiles at every entrance to keep the flow of people high and not cause long lines. The price is $4,424 per turnstile and the vendor agreed to provide delivery and installation for free because of the large number of turnstiles we are ordering.
Title
Cost of the single item
Number of items
Total cost
ID cards
$3.55
17993
$35,500
Turnstiles
$4,424
25
$110,600
Total
$146,100
Experience:
Ethan Angress is a freshman mechanical engineering student at The City College of New York. He finished high school in Mount Sinai, New York. His first job was as an umpire for his local youth baseball league’s games. Eventually, he would move on because it was during baseball season and he wanted a job with regular hours. Then, he worked as a busboy at a Japanese Steakhouse for a year until he left for college. He is responsible, determined, hardworking, and organized. He can drive along with operate SolidWorks and AutoCad. He is extremely interested in designing components to new inventions for everyday life.
Timur Uzbekov is a freshman civil engineering student at The City College of New York.
He graduated from high school in Forest Hills, New York with a specialization in career education. He is a professional lifeguard at the Astoria pool in Queens. Timur is a very well-rounded person; he has great communication and computer skills, he is organized and focused. Timur is also always prepared for a challenge and is confident in his abilities because of his problem-solving skills.
Dipankar Chakravorty is a freshman in City College of New York pursuing Computer Science in the Grove School of Engineering. He did his high school in John Bowne High School. He was awarded the best Computer Science student during his high school. Dipankar is a well organized and hardworking person who divides his time evenly with his personal and student life. Dipankar can code in two languages and is also brilliant in Maths. Dipankar is always prepared to tackle any challenge and is confident in his himself.
Moshfiq Ahmed is a freshman who is majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He born and raised in Queens, New York. He attended William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, Queens. Moshfiq Ahmed is currently attending the Grove School of Engineering at CCNY. He is proficiency in Solidworks, Excel, and Microsoft Word. Furthermore, he has fluency in Bengali and English. Moshfiq Ahmed is a responsible and trustworthy person who does the work that is required of him and beyond to insure success. Moshfiq is always interested in new advancements in Science and Technology which motivates him to be at the forefront of engineering.
Conclusion:
We believe that this project is critically needed for the security of this campus and for the overall safety of the faculty and staff. The implementation of Turnstiles into CCNY buildings will allow students to feel safe in the campus and add a layer of security. Furthermore, the addition of turnstiles could give prospective students assurance that if they enroll in CCNY they will be safe. We all believe that security and safety of the people in the campus is the foremost in importance over all other priorities, therefore it is only right that we approve the funding for turnstiles so that students and faculty can safely attain whatever aspirations and ambitions they hope to achieve during their tenure at City College.
Work Cited:
https://www.identicard.com/store/identiproxtm-magnetic-stripe-pvc-cards.html
EX100-R: Corporate Series Waist High Turnstiles and ADA Swing Gates
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