Summary of 2012 LASPE Membership Survey Results

Oct 16, 2012Survey Committee: Steve Cheung, Serge Baghdikian, Baldev Gill, Nazee Heda, Ryan Kwong, Ben Nathan, Jalal Torabzadeh, and Leila Vlasko . Mentored by Eric Withjack and Sam Sarem.

125 Surveys Submitted

• Professional Members 86 (19%)

• Student Members 36 (18%)

• Young Professionals 17 (15%)

• Former Members 4• Non-members 2

• * numbers added up to 145 because of multiple entries.

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Members Who Submitted Survey

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Is Forum date and time convenient?

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Many USC students do not know of the LASPE meetings. Several do not know when and where; some suggested Friday, weekend or evening options; two have conflict with work meeting; several have long drive during the weekdays.

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Relative Level of Interestin Categories of Forum Program

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Relative Level of Interestin Types of workshops

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Employer’s Attitude Towards SPE Participation

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Level of Interest in Activities

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Number of People Expressed Very Interested to Volunteer

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• 27 people mentioned they are available to present technical talks to share Best Practices and Lessons Learned.

• 44 people volunteered to be on panels to discuss topics in their line of expertise.

• There were many other leads on potential speakers and topics from outside of the section.

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Potential Speakers

How Board of Directors use the results?

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• Nominated and approved new Board Members. (also resulted in new secretary and program co-chair).

• Forward Meeting notice and Newsletter to Student Chapter presidents, and request them to notify student members.

• Program co-chairs will use information to invite speakers to attract more attendees.

• Considering offering cross-generation soft-skills workshop. • Committee chairs will contact people when help is

needed. • ……..

Summary

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• The 2012 Survey was very successful

• Board of Directors understand the preferences of the

members, and will adjust program to attract more

members to attend meetings.

• We now have names of people who are interested to

volunteer.

$100 Prize

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