Virginia Tech PA Survey - Fall 2013

The following survey is designed to gage your confidence, skill level, and ability in design-related work. There are no right or wrong answers. All that is asked of you is that you answer the following questions as they relate best to you. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete.Use the arrow at the bottom of the page to proceed through the survey. Note: you will not be able to go back, so make sure to complete all questions the first time. Thank you for your participation.

Q15 Please create a unique identifier so we can track your data across surveys. The unique 6-character identifier is generated as follows:First two letters of your first name, First two letters of your last name, and the two digits of the day of your birthExample: John Smith born on the 26th day of the month would be JOSM26

Gender:  Male (1)  Female (2)

Current class standing:  Freshman (1)  Sophomore (2)  Junior (3)  Senior (4)  Post-Baccalaureate (5)  Graduate Student (6)

Q15 What is your major or expected major?

Q24 Select which class/section you are in.  ME 2024 Section 94555 (Bohn) (1)  ME 2024 Section 94556 (Sandu) (2)  ME 2024 Section 94558 (Takami) (3)  ME 2024 Section 94559 (Sandu) (4)  ME 2024 Section 94561 (Furukawa) (5)  ME 2024 Section 94562 (Bird) (6)  ME 2024 Section 94563 (Clark) (7)  ME 2024 Section 94564 (Clark) (8)  ME 2024 Section 94566 (Zhu) (9)  ME 2024 Section 94567 (Bickford) (10) SECTION I: SELF-EFFICACY

Rate your current degree of CONFIDENCE (i.e. belief in your current ability) to perform the following tasks by marking a number from 0 to 100.

(0 = cannot do at all; 100 - highly certain can do) ______conduct engineering design (1) ______identify a design need (2) ______research a design need (3) ______develop design solutions (4) ______select the best possible design (5) ______construct a prototype (6) ______test a design (7) ______evaluate test data (8) ______communicate a design (9) ______redesign (10) ______choose appropriate materials for a design (11) ______choose appropriate manufacturing processes for a design (12) ______collect stakeholder feedback on a design (13) ______analyze stakeholder feedback on a design (14) ______use mathematical modeling to represent a design (15)

When responding to the above questions, what engineering tasks came to mind: SECTION II: ENGINEERING CONTEXTS

Rate your SKILL LEVEL and ABILITIES for the following questions. If you are unfamiliar with, or have had no experience with any of these, select the "Weak/None" option. Weak/None Very Good Fair (2) Good (3) Excellent (5) (1) (4) Knowledge of contexts (social, political, economic, cultural, environmenta      l, ethical, etc.) that might affect the solution to an engineering problem (1) Knowledge of the connections between technological solutions and their      implications for the society or groups they are intended to benefit (2) Ability to use what you know about different cultures, social values,      or political systems in developing engineering solutions (3) Ability to recognize how different contexts can      change a solution. (4)

Q19 Please describe some CONTEXTUAL FACTORS that may be important to consider as you begin work on any engineering design problem.