We would like to request permission from the college and it’s representatives to conduct a team research consisting of several actions that will be taken in implementing or installing a new waiting line system into the financial aid department. Our actions will consist of conducting different activities such as student surveys, online and library researching, interviewing and meeting with the right representatives to find any past reflections and approaches taken on a financial aid waiting line problem. Our actions will also consist of determining steps to be taken in equipping, testing and installing our recommended solution system
Members: Nilda Correa, Jose Estrada, Aaron Munoz, Robert Plummer
Tasks: Pitch, Proposal, Deliverable, Presentation
Introduction
This post is an overview of our task of proposing an improved navigational system for City Tech, and the steps we have taken to do so. This includes all of the documents, visual aids, and deliverables that were used. All documents referenced here can be downloaded from a direct link at the end of this post.
Pitch
The purpose of the Pitch was to bring awareness to the need of a form of technical communications that could be beneficial to City Tech and its members. There were several possible needs to address, and we have felt that using a distributable map as a better navigational system has the greatest ratio of benefits/effectiveness to cost. In this Pitch, we prepare a presentation to give a basic overview of the necessity of a map.
Pitch Presentation Slides:
Proposal
Following our Pitch, we needed to gather more details in order to propose the precise requirements of implementing a map for a navigational system. This included reviewing the overall benefits of using a map, gauging the need for a map by its intended users (the students and visitors of City Tech), and the projected costs of implementing it. This proposal includes a formal report that addresses all of this, plus a survey that we have used to gather necessary data.
City Tech Survey #1 (Demand)
*Note: The attached survey is only a placeholder and contains no data used for the proposal. The survey was provided to students in-person. All relevant data is contained in the Proposal Report and the Deliverable Presentation*
Proposal Report
Deliverable
With the proposal set, it was time to create the deliverable map to be used for technical communications. A prototype map of a sample floor was created, tested using feedback from another survey, and then re-purposed into a final form.
Project Deliverable (Sample Map, Final)
City Tech Survey #2 (Testing)
*Note: The attached survey is only a placeholder and contains no data used for the proposal. The survey was provided to students in-person. All relevant data is contained in the Deliverable Presentation.*
Presentation
With all components of the deliverable completed, the Presentation and Script is a review of all of the work done so far, confirming all of the work done throughout this project. This also presents validation for the City Tech administration, should they consider officially implementing the deliverable. Progress reports and meeting minute logs are also provided in this post, showing all of the steps that have been done to complete this project.
Deliverable Presentation Slides
Presentation Script
Progress Report
Meeting Minutes
Downloads
All of the above documents can be directly accessed here:
Yevheniy Matveychuk, Muhammad Javed, Amit Rabadia, Adeola Gbamuse
Introduction
Our project focuses on creating new navigational guides for Voorhees Building that will help visitors find water fountains within the building. This is also supplemented with an informational sticker created to be put on water fountains that will instruct both students and faculty of whom to contact in case there is a problem with the water fountain. The following are the parts of the project which together make it whole.
Makylah Rodriguez, Xavier Pabon, Elena Prokhortseva, Peiyun Lu
We are proposing to use our Facebook group page—Book Steal—that we created to give CityTech’s students a better alternative to buy and sell their used textbooks and class materials. This solution will give students the advantage to recycle their books, eliminate shipping fees, cut down delivery time, and provide secure online textbooks shopping experience.
Team members: Mohammed S. Akhtar, Tanman Dey, Ailin Guo, and Kanstantsin Yanchanka.
We are proposing to create detailed hard copy maps for each floor in every building at New York City College of Technology. The purpose of these maps is to improve navigation through the college, which, according to our research, currently does not work properly.
Project files:
All files are downloadable docx documents except power point files, which can be directly viewed.
Project Deliverables are the maps for each floor of the Midway building. The first floor was skipped because there were no classrooms or offices on this floor. The first draft was made only for the second floor because we did a usability test only for the second floor.Then, based on the results from the usability test, we applied changes to the second floor map, and in the same image we created the rest of the maps.
Note: The images have jpg format; however, the original files were made in AutoCAD, and they have dwg format that can be adjusted to any resolution and any size of the paper, but since not everyone has AutoCAD installed on their computers, it was decided to post the images in jpg format.
During the first ten minutes of class, write your final summary memo on TC Chapter 26: Writing Reader-Centered Feasibility Reports. In your discussion, think about how feasibility reports require critical evaluation and honest responses. How might you incorporate some lessons from this chapter into your team’s presentation for Project 2?
During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of today’s reading assignment: Anderson’s TC Chapter 22: Creating Reader-Centered Websites.
After this and today’s presentation, use the remaining time class time to continue working with your team on your project. Before the end of class, each team should email me a Word docx copy of their team’s progress report for the week.
During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of Anderson’s TC Chapter 15: Creating Eleven Types of Reader-Centered Graphics as a memo-formatted comment on this post. In your discussion, write about examples and where you saw those examples of these types of graphics.
My name is Kellie Porter. I am currently a student at New York City College of Technology and I am applying for an entry level postion at The Creative Group in Midtown, New York City.
