Nanotechnology in STEM Website Mini Survey

Your help is requested in this 5-minute survey, to gauge community use of the websites and web resources housed at serc.carleton.edu/msu_nanotech (opens in a new window). You have been selected as a member of a small but representative sample of people interested in and/or a practitioner of nanoscience. The information that we gather through this survey will inform us about the effectiveness of the website.

Be assured that your privacy is important to us: the individual survey responses will remain confidential and we will not identify you by name in any of the subsequent publications of the research results. Your participation is voluntary and if you come to any question you prefer not to answer, you are welcome to skip it and go on to the next. Aggregate responses may be used in publications. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Monica Bruckner (mbruckne@carleton.edu).

Website UseHave you ever heard of any of the websites on nanoscience and nanotechnology housed at serc.carleton.edu/msu_nanotech?

How often did you use any of the websites housed at serc.carleton.edu/msu_nanotech in the last two years?

Nearly every day
Weekly
Several times per term
Once or Twice
Never (If never, you're done! Scroll down to select the submit button.)

How did you hear about the site?

Other

Website Qualities
To what extent you agree or disagree with each of the following statements as they relate to the websites hosted at serc.carleton.edu/msu_nanotech?

	Disagree	Tend to disagree	Tend to agree	Agree
I am able to access these resources.
I am satisfied with how to find materials on these websites.
I am likely to continue to use these nanoscience websites.
I think that the resources on these websites are credible.
I think that the resources on these websites are up-to-date.
It is important to me to know that these resources came from the Earth and Environmental Science community.
I think the resources on these websites are a useful on-ramp for undergraduate instructors interested in teaching nanotechnology topics.
I think the resources on these websites are a useful on-ramp for STEM faculty to learn about research involving nanotechnology.

Site Content
How useful do you perceive the nanoscience and nanotechnology resources housed at serc.carleton.edu/msu_nanotech to serve as an on-ramp to nanotechnology education across the STEM curriculum, if at all??

	N/A or Don't know	Not at all useful	Somewhat useful	Moderately useful	Very useful
A primer on nanoscience (e.g. what is it, where is the field going)
Career resources for students and mentors (e.g. career preparation, coursework, and workforce landscape)
Teaching resources (e.g. ideas about teaching nano in undergraduate courses, promising pedagogical approaches)
Repository for nanoscience literature relevant to STEM (e.g. articles, reports, other literature)
Instrumentation and methods resources (e.g. info and access to analytical instruments and methods used in nanoscience)
Ethics resources (e.g. ethical implications of nanoscience, responsible conduct of science)
Networking purposes (e.g. finding collaborators)
Professional development events (e.g. webinars, workshops, conferences)
Other

If other, please explain:

Optional: If you would like to comment further on any of the items above, please do so below:

About you
Have you taught any geoscience or earth science courses in the last 2 years?

Yes
No

What, if anything, do you get out of your use of the nanotechnology website and/or participation in project events that you don't receive elsewhere?

May we follow up with you at a later date with a 10 minute interview?

Yes
No