Team H		80/100 [top two project scores]

CHEN, HONG                Soph   HSS STA  L     9.0  hchen1  
SUN, JE WOO               Soph   HSS STA  L     9.0  jewoos   
TANG, ERIKA R.            Soph   HSS ECO  L     9.0  ertang   
TANG, ZHIYI               Soph   HSS STA  L     9.0  zhiyit   
ZIMMERMAN, DAVID B        Fresh  CMU SHS  L     9.0  dbz      

1. Analysis of Carnegie Mellon Undergrad Prospects After Graduation
Statistics

   A. Interest.	15/20					37/50

      This is an interesting and relevant topic.

      A key question will be, how will you identify and sample alumni
      who have graduated 12 or more months ago? -- all of your
      questions under B. are aimed at alumni.

   B. Research Questions.    20/20

      These are reasonable initual questions.  It would be valuable to
      compare the results of this survey to data published by the
      Institutional Research department at Carnegie Mellon.


   C. References.   2/10

      (a) separate articles were to be found by each team member

      (b) a sentence or two describing each article is required

      (c) Not even names of all articles were provided.


2. People's Satisfaction with Services that Port Authority Provides
(off campus)

   A. Interest.		10/20				22/50

      The topic is modestly interesting.  However, it is not clear
      that any action can be taken, based on the results of your
      survey.  

      In particular, the primary funding problems for PAT have to do
      with state and federal decisions to subsidize or not subsidize
      municipal transit systems, rather than ridership numbers,
      satisfaction, etc.

      What topic could you choose, related to PAT bus service, that
      *could* produce results that someone would be interested in
      acting on?

   B. Research Questions.	10/20

      These questions are "suggestion box / complaint department"
      style questions.  They will be difficult to code and summarize,
      and mostly lead to additional expenses for PAT.  It is unlikely
      that any action can come of these, in view of PAT's inability to
      get adequate subsidies from the state and federal governments. 
      
   C. References.		2/10

      (a) separate articles were to be found by each team member

      (b) a sentence or two describing each article is required

      (c) Not even names of all articles were provided.


3. Pedestrian Circulation Throughout Carnegie Mellon Campus (on campus)

   A. Interest.		  20/20	     	      	     43/50

      This is an interesting and actionable topic, and relevant to
      student sidewalk promotions of all kinds on campus.

      Developing an appropriate sampling scheme will be an important
      but not impossible task.  It seems this is an "observational"
      survey, rather than an "opinion" survey (that's fine).            
      

   B. Research Questions.	20/20

      Great start.  Not all of the questions will be part of the
      survey (e.g. when certain colleges hold classes) but still
      provide important information for setting up sampling design,
      interpreting results, etc.

   C. References.  	    3/10

      (a) separate articles were to be found by each team member

      (b) a sentence or two describing each article is required