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CE Club Student Survey Results - July 2015

Civil Engineering Club Student Survey Results
To better understand the student population, ASCE Dallas conducted an end-of-year survey about the Civil Engineering Club presentations with the four civil engineering classes at Woodrow Wilson High School. The hope is to take this feedback and continue to improve upon this quickly-growing program! Thanks in large part to the four-year Engineering Academy at WWHS, the majority of the students were already aware of the civil engineering profession with structural and environmental engineering being the most widely recognized.

It also appears that the majority of the students are interested in pursuing engineering of some form or another in college:

The CE Club meetings increased the students’ interest in civil engineering for the most part:

Students were also asked to comment on how the club meetings positively impacted their outlook on civil engineering:
• My interest increased because the guest speakers seemed to really love what they did and their jobs seemed really interesting and fun.
• The opinions given from the speakers and also their experience in life really gave me a better view of engineering.
• Before the club meetings I had some previous knowledge towards civil engineering, but not as much to where I could hold a conversation with engineers and know what they were talking about. I now have a more elaborate view on certain topics of civil engineering.
• My interest increased because they made their jobs seem interesting by them showing what their job consisted of. It also sparked my interest because they knew everything they were explaining which helped me personally by making it simple to understand for someone not in that profession.
• At the beginning, I didn't know that there were a lot of civil engineering branches. Now I know that there are a lot of possibilities within civil engineering.
• My interest in CE increased because I found out that these careers actually help many people. Not only does it have a major effect on people, but it helps our life be incredibly easier. For example, if we didn't have transportation engineers, our life out in the roads would be extremely terrifying.
• My interest in CE increased because I know that being an engineer has many opportunities to help the people and the community. This is something that I love doing. This why my CE desire became stronger.
• Well, I didn't realize how deeply specific each specialized engineer is with their job. Each engineer covers so much more than I ever thought possible.
• I never knew how much consideration went into streets.
• My interest in CE has increased because off all types of projects they get to do as well travel to other places.

 Overall, the students preferred the more hands-on activities that the presenters put on with the Build-A-Beam activity being the overwhelming favorite:

We also looked at ways that the CE Club program could be improved upon. For the most part, students expressed that they would like to do more hands-on activities or at least have some kind of participation role (i.e. working out problems on the board or on paper) in the presentations taking place. Information was also gathered on what specific topics the students would like to learn more about when guest speakers come in:

When asked to rate the CE Club meetings overall, the students gave the program an average rating of 8.15 out of 10:

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEER SPEAKERS FOR MAKING THIS SUCH A GREAT YEAR AT THE WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL CIVIL ENGINEERING CLUB!