kmw@usl (Kent Michael White) (11/07/87)
Following is a questionnaire for a class project. The
questionnaire pertains to people who work in the field of
computer science. The questionnaire consists of questions
about work and a general background survey. I would appre-
ciate anyone who is interested to fill out the questionnaire
and return it to me. Thanks for your help. Please send your
replies to :
kmw%usl.csnet@csnet-relay
Please take a few minutes to fill out this questionnaire. Feel
free to omit any of the questions if you wish to do so.
I. General Background Information
(1) Company Name _______________
(2) Location _______________
(3) Starting Position _______________
(4) Years at Company _______________
(5) Present Position _______________
(6) Years at Present Position _______________
(7) Hourly or Salaried _______________
(8) Hours Per Day at Job Site _______________
What was your starting salary after graduation and what is your
present salary?
SALARY
(9) STARTING (10) PRESENT
under $20,000 __________ __________
$20,000-$30,000 __________ __________
$30,000-$40,000 __________ __________
$40,000-$50,000 __________ __________
$50,000-$60,000 __________ __________
$60,000-$70,000 __________ __________
$70,000-$80,000 __________ __________
over $80,000 __________ __________
II. What types of benefits are available to you?
(11) Hospitalization _____ (16) Life Insurance _____
(12) Retirement Plan _____ (17) Dental Insurance _____
(13) Paid Vacations _____ (18) Savings Plan _____
(14) Stock Purchase _____ (19) Paternity Leave _____
(15) Credit Union _____ (20) Maternity Leave _____
III. Educational Background
(21) Highest Degree Earned _________________________
(22) Year Earned ________________________
(23) Where Degree Earned _________________________
IV. Type of Business
(24) Are you in academia? ________
If yes, complete this section and then skip to section VI. If no,
skip this section and complete section V.
(25) Number of Lecture Classes Taught. _________
(26) Number of Seminar Classes Taught. _________
Number of Hours Per Week Spent on
(27) Research _______
(28) Lectures _______
(29) Grant Proposals _______
(30) Advising Students ______
(31) Grading Papers _____
(32) Meetings _____
(33) Other (specify) _________________
(34) Are you the sponsor of any clubs or classes? _______
(35) If yes, how many? _________
(36) Do you have tenure? _______
(37) How many years did it take for you to obtain tenure? _____
Please rate the following according to importance to you, with 1 being
the most important and 5 the least important.
Very Least
Important Important
(38) Tenure 1 2 3 4 5
(39) Teaching Lecture Classes 1 2 3 4 5
(40) Teaching Seminar Classes 1 2 3 4 5
(41) Guiding Student Research 1 2 3 4 5
(42) Research 1 2 3 4 5
(43) Publishing Papers 1 2 3 4 5
(44) What areas of research are you interested in?
______________________________________________________
SKIP TO Section VI.
V. Business Section
(45) Do you program as a regular part of your job? ______
(46) If yes, what language do you normally use? _________
(47) What language would you prefer to program in? _______
(48) Is programming performed by teams or individuals? _________
(49) If by teams, how many people usually make up a team? _____
(50) Do you do any research? __________
(51) What areas of research are you interested in? _________
(52) How often are promotions given? ______________
(53) How many projects do you usually work on at a time? _____
(54) How long on average does a project take to complete? _____
VI. Conferences
(55) Does your employer provide funds for attendance at confer-
ences?_______
If yes, under what circumstances?
(56) Presenting Paper _____ (59) Area of Interest _____
(57) Giving Tutorial _____ (60) Any Conference _____
(58) Major Conference _____ (61) Other (specify) ___________
(62) What percentage of conference expenditures does your employer
provide?
100-90 ____ 89-75 ____ 74-50 ____ 49-25 ____ 24-0 ____
VII. Writing Requirements of Job.
Please rate the following types of writing as to how often you do
each.
Frequently Occasionally Seldom Never
(63) Research ___ ___ ___ ___
(64) Proposals ___ ___ ___ ___
(65) Publishing ___ ___ ___ ___
(66) Abstract ___ ___ ___ ___
(67) Memos ___ ___ ___ ___
(68) Letters ___ ___ ___ ___
(69) Reports ___ ___ ___ ___
(70) Lectures ___ ___ ___ ___
(71) Assignments ___ ___ ___ ___
(72) Tests ___ ___ ___ ___
(73) Software Documentation ___ ___ ___ ___
How many revisions on average do you normally do on the following
types of writing?
(74) Research ______
(75) Letters ______
(76) Assignments _____
(77) Tests _____
(78) Proposals _____
Very Least
Important Important
(79) Is Writing an important 1 2 3 4 5
part of your job
VIII. General Work
(80) How many committees do you serve on? ______
(81) How many times a month (on average) do the committees
meet?_______
How often do you use the following types of computers?
Very Often Occasionally Never
(82) Supercomputers ___ ___ ___
(83) Mainframes ___ ___ ___
(84) Minis ___ ___ ___
(85) Workstations ___ ___ ___
(86) Single Processor ___ ___ ___
(87) Multi Processor ___ ___ ___
(88) What computer do you use the most? _______________________
(89) What operating system? ______________________
(90) If you could use any computer available today what would it
be?______________________________
(91) Do you have a computer at home? _______
(92) If yes, what type of computer is it? ________________
(93) Do you take work home? ________
(94) How many hours a day do you work at home? ______
(95) Would you recommend this field to anyone else? _______
(96) Would you choose the same field if you had a chance to do it over
again? _________
(97) If no, what field would you choose? ____________pa1293@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1293) (11/05/88)
Hello.
My name is Christian D. Turner and I am doing a survey with two other
people in my Cognitive engineering class. Is anyone out there with
the Microsoft windows application called EmSAVE on the IBM PC? This
works over the NOVELL system. If there are any users out there, can
you please answer a couple of questions for me?
1. What do you like about EmSAVE?
2. What do you dislike about EmSAVE?
3. May I contact you in person? Leave phone number.....
Thankyou very much for your time. EmSAVE is copywrited by EMERALD
SYSTEMS in San Diego CA.
My mail path is: pa1293@sdcc15.ucsd.edu
Thanks, and if you want a copy of the results, after they are
done.