Aerospace Engineering

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Aerospace Engineering Manufacturing Magazine
Readers Study Final Results, June 2008
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Project Execution

• Project Execution
• SAE International commissioned Valient Solutions
  to conduct primary survey research with 15,000
  readers of its Aerospace Engineering
  Manufacturing magazine publication.
• Valient Solutions designed a custom 15-minute
  Internet survey to collect data from aerospace
  professionals around the world.
• One original and two follow-up reminder
  email-based survey invitations were sent to
  potential respondents in mid-May and early June
  2008 by SAE International.
• In total, Valient Solutions received 547
  completed surveys for this report. The
  confidence interval for all SAE survey results
  are /- 5.4

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Survey Respondent Demographics

• Survey Respondents, n547

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Respondent Role

• Survey Respondents, n547

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System Involvement

• Survey Respondents, n547

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Manufacturing Operation Involvement

• Survey Respondents, n547

Q. Are you involved in supporting or managing
manufacturing operations within your company?
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Manufacturing Operation Type

• Survey Respondents, n547

Q. Which types of manufacturing are you involved
in?
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Aerospace Parts, Components Systems

• Q. Which of the following products and services
  are you involved in specifying or approving for
  purchase?

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Materials

• Q. Which of the following products and services
  are you involved in specifying or approving for
  purchase?

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Testing Measurement Equipment

• Q. Which of the following products and services
  are you involved in specifying or approving for
  purchase?

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Manufacturing Product Equipment

• Q. Which of the following products and services
  are you involved in specifying or approving for
  purchase?

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Engineering Manufacturing Software

• Q. Which of the following products and services
  are you involved in specifying or approving for
  purchase?

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Services

• Q. Which of the following products and services
  are you involved in specifying or approving for
  purchase?

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Initial Impressions
Q2. Overall, what was your initial impression of
Aerospace Engineering Manufacturing?
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Evaluation Statements
Q4. How likely is it that you will continue to
read or look at the next several issues of
Aerospace Engineering Manufacturing?
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Evaluation Statements
Q5. In 2007, did you read or review any issues
of Aerospace Engineering magazine?
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Evaluation Statements
Q6.5 Please rate how the new Aerospace
Engineering Manufacturing compares with last
years Aerospace Engineering. Overall reading
experience
Mean 7.59
1 means Unsatisfactory5 means Moderate
improvement 10 means Excellent
improvementRespondents selected one answer
from 1 to 10 to rate each item.
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Top 10 Topics of Interest

• Please help us to serve you better in the future
  by indicating how important are each of the
  following topics to your work responsibilities
  and technical interests 1 This topic is not
  important to me or relevant to my work and
  technical interests 2 This topic is somewhat
  important to my work and technical interests 3
  This topic is important to my work and technical
  interests 4 This topic is very important to my
  work and technical interests

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