North Carolina State University
2009-2010 Graduating Senior Survey
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Environmental Technology Program

INSTRUCTIONS:

The Environmental Technology program is very interested in your opinions, and believes that you can provide it with useful information to help us evaluate and improve our programs. We appreciate you taking the time to answer these questions.

To answer a question, click on the bubble for the answer you are choosing. Once you have answered all the questions, you must hit the SUBMIT button at the end of the form to submit your answers.

In the first column, please select the appropriate bubble to indicate to what extent you think the Environmental Technology program prepared you in each of the following areas. In the second column, indicate how important you expect the area will be in your future profession.

	HOW WELL WERE YOU PREPARED BY YOUR PROGRAM OF STUDY?					HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU EXPECT THIS WILL BE IN YOUR PROFESSION?
	Very Well Prepared	Well Prepared	Somewhat Prepared	Poorly Prepared	Very Poorly Prepared	Very Important	Important	Moderately Important	Of Limited Importance	Not At All Important
1.An understanding of ecological and biological concepts, principles, and processes.	Very well prepared	Well prepared	Somewhat prepared	Poorly prepared	Very poorly prepared	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of limited important	Not at all important
2. Skills necessary to measure, monitor, and assess environmental and environmental health and safety problems.	Very well prepared	Well prepared	Somewhat prepared	Poorly prepared	Very poorly prepared	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of limited important	Not at all important
3.Ability to apply scientific knowledge to prevent, solve, and manage environmental problems.	Very well prepared	Well prepared	Somewhat prepared	Poorly prepared	Very poorly prepared	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of limited important	Not at all important
4. Ability to apply technical and quantitative skills to prevent, solve, and manage environmental problems.	Very well prepared	Well prepared	Somewhat prepared	Poorly prepared	Very poorly prepared	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of limited important	Not at all important
5.Ability to use objective and critical thought to the solution of a variety of problems in environmental resources as well as environmental health and safety.	Very well prepared	Well prepared	Somewhat prepared	Poorly prepared	Very poorly prepared	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of limited important	Not at all important
6. Ability to communicate effectively in the kinds of writing and speaking required of environmental professionals.	Very well prepared	Well prepared	Somewhat prepared	Poorly prepared	Very poorly prepared	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of limited important	Not at all important
7. An understanding of the social, political, economic, and ethical conditions in which environmental assessment and management decisions are made.	Very well prepared	Well prepared	Somewhat prepared	Poorly prepared	Very poorly prepared	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of limited important	Not at all important

8. How satisfied are you with the curriculum's ability to foster a broad perspective to environmental technology ?
Very satisfied
Moderately satisfied
Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
Moderately dissatisfied
Very dissatisfied
Not required in major

Students also majoring in Forest Management, please click on the FOM button to submit your responses to this survey and go to the Forest Management one.

Students also majoring in Natural Resources - Ecosystem Assessment (NRE) or Natural Resources - Policy & Administration, please click on the NRE/NRP button to submit your responses to this survey and go to the Natural Resources one.

Students also majoring in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, please click on the FWS button to submit your responses to this survey and go to the Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences one.

Thank you for your time and assistance!