Card Readers (Door Lock Access)

ENS maintains about 50 card readers in and around the Engineering buildings.  By default, all students, faculty, and staff have 24 hour access to the Engineering buildings and general purpose computer labs.  Just swipe the magnetic stripe on your CSU ID card and the lock will release.

If you are part of certain programs in the engineering college, and an associated room is accessed through a card reader, the professor or staff member that facilitates the program must request that you be granted access through the card reader.

If you are having trouble with your card, you should drop by the ENS Help Desk in the Glover Building, room 211, so that we can check the card and your entry in the database.

Stuff that's good to know:

• If the reader is displaying the green light(s) for entry and the door won't open, push on the door and then pull. Some of the latches are a bit sticky.
• There is a reader on the west and north doors of the Engineering building and on the east door of the Glover building. They all allow after-hours access to their respective buildings.
• Your Engineering Student Technology Committee (ESTC) decided that only Engineering majors can access the Lockheed Martin lab facilities.
• Please PLEASE *please* don't prop the doors open. The readers are there to help keep engineering equipment in the engineering labs and out of unscrupulous people's homes. This isn't "Big Brother" trying to maintain a status quo, it's about keeping your computing labs nice and in working condition. If you decide to prop the doors open, you'll be denied access to the engineering computers.