Summer 2013 REU Experience Evaluation

Name: ______

Mentor: ______

Area of Interest: ______

I. GENERAL IMPRESSIONS: (You may use additional pages if so motivated)

1. Rate your experience on a scale of 0 (Poor) to 10 (Great) and give a short impression:

2. Would you recommend this experience to a friend?

3. Would you do this experience again, given what you know now?

4. Did you apply to other summer programs? Y / N Where?

What made you choose this one?

5. The program now runs for a period of 10 weeks. Did you feel it was:

too long / just right / too short?

6. Did you participate on any "experiential" cruises (NEESKAY day trips / Milwaukee Reef / others)? Which?

Do you see them as a valuable component of your experience?

About how many days did you spend in direct field experience?

Please comment:

7. Did you attend any scientific seminars here or on campus? Y / N

If so, which? Did you use the Wednesday lunch offerings? Y / N

Which of the academic aspects of the environment did you find enlightening?

7b. Which of the brown bag lunches do you remember favorably?

Which would you have let go by if you had known?

II. PRACTICAL SPECIFICS: LABORATORY

8. Did you participate in planning your project?

9. Would you have liked to have had more/less/the same input at first?

10. Were you shown adequately how to use the tools of your trade?

11. What other assistance would have been helpful, if any?

12. Did you feel like a member of your laboratory? Were you welcome?

13. Would you have desired more / less / the same exposure to instrumentation and techniques? Which in particular (if more")?

14. Did you participate in any field sampling work other than the introductory cruises?

15. Did your project rely heavily on field sampling?

16. Would you have liked more/less/the same amount of field work?

17. Was your mentor helpful in your work? For about how many hours per week did you interact?

18. Who else helped you significantly?

19. Did you need more help than you received? Did you seek it?

III. PRACTICAL SPECIFICS: OUTSIDE OF LABORATORY.

Recently we have been using the UWM air-conditioned dorms with kitchenette, and we would like to know how they compare with "average dorm accomodations" to the extent that you are aware.

20. Were the living arrangements satisfactory?

21. What comments do you have that would be applicable to ANY students applying to this program with respect to the living situation? Please elaborate on the situation in detail if you wish.

IV: GUT LEVEL RESPONSES

22. What are three of the most important things you learned this summer?

23. What changes would you recommend for this program?

24. What did you like best? Least?

25. Has this experience affected your career plans? In what way?

In order to evaluate the overall success of the program, we would like to ask your progress in life from time to time. What forwarding address may we use for correspondence?

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