Recruitment improvement in ASEE student membership

Problems and issues for advancing engineering education from the student perspectives are important considerations in engineering education.For one month period ads asking the student to join ASEE's student chapter were placed in the student longue and waiting areas in the engineering building.Only 9 students joined.Then a survey was made and distributed randomly to the students to know what exactly the students wanted and their needs were.The survey asked the students how important to them are the following issues by rating them on a scale 1 (least important) -5(most important).The issues ranged from job search to expanding engineering interest in secondary schools.Because of the questionnaire a focused list of deliverables to be delivered by the student chapter with their prioritized rank was made and distributed to the students.Within the next month, 13 more students joined the student chapter.Overall the student membership improved by 144%.Statistical tests were conducted to verify the significance of improvements on each issue.The t-tests and f-tests confirmed statistically the improvements at significant confidence levels.