Philippe's Office
Through conducting this semester's research on air quality using our data sensors constructed in class, myself and my partner Nahal had the pleasure of working hand in hand with monitoring the air levels in professor Phillipe's office of Glendon's communications program. The office of where our sensor was placed was located in the older section of the school towards the back end near the cafeteria.
Myself and Nahal had come to the conclusion that every time we passed by that particular area of the school, there had always been a musty smell. Now along that hallway lies the offices of our professors who countlessly spend many hours there preparing for their class times. We both felt that this was one of the best suitable locations in Glendon to place the sensor for this reason. Furthermore, Phillipe is one of the communications professors at Glendon that kindly allowed us to use his office for research.
In going through our final build stages of the sensors, Nahal and myself had sat down and set a series of conclusions and or possible outcomes we can see that omits out of this data collection assignment. Because of Phillipes office being in the older wing next to Evans who previously had low air quality in his office, we were next to almost being forced to believe this assignment would go South in terms of collecting the level of air quality, particularly in Phillipe's office. Furthermore, the smell that comes out of that hallway is not normal and very musty, therefore, we had come to the conclusion that the possible outcome was not going to be very good when analyzing the levels of air quality.
Through conducting multiple weeks of data using our air sensor, we collected a large portion that lied along the lines moderate to low level air quality. Not once did we see the chart spike or remotely come close to breaking the moderate seal to good. For the most part, Phillipes office had very low air quality with the occasional moderate day. Myself and Nahal drew a connection the days the sensor was collecting the moderate air quality data. The days that it was stuffy or warm inside and Phillipe decided to keep his window open. The quality of air appeared to become slightly better. I myself and Nahal came across Philippes office 2-3 times a week as our classes coordinated those particular days with being at Glendon.
Thankfully, myself and Nahal didn't face any difficulties when deploying the air sensor as professor Evan had it placed in his office prior to us making any accomodations in deploying our device. We unfortunately ran into trouble a couple of times as the battery life on the air sensors died every 1-2 days and myself and Nahal rotated in charging up the device in order to get a steady gain in receiving data collection. In order to accurately compare charts and progression, my group made sure we were always charged up and ready to go.
Our final verdict of the air quality location at this point particularly lies in the hands of Glendon, as we look on building a website and forming all of our data collection into an information page. Our hope is to pass this website/ breach of information to Glendon as being a Glendon student for our professor and overall student bodies health, perhaps the university needs to reconsider the health and safety in what we are breathing when coming in. The overall air quality was low-moderate for the most part hovering along the low lens. In the future, we hope to see an improvement in air quality at Glendon as in my other classes look upon going to Keele campus and conducting the same assignment in helping build a case on our findings.
- Joseph and Nahal
