aviash
Nov 10, 2009
Graduate / Need reviews and suggestions for my SOP. Mechanical [9]
Have been working on this for a couple of weeks.. From a 2 page CV explanation it has come down to this.. for MS in mechanical..
Placed among the top twenty teams in the country in Virtual BAJA Design Challenge 2009 has been one of the highlights of my short professional journey as a mechanical engineer.
The competition to design an all terrain vehicle had the complexities of various aspects of design thrown at me. Tackling a lot of niggling problems with design in the first go resulted in an unrefined and an inefficient solution. More introspection and a better approach helped us achieve a better solution and a commendable result. My interest in design was the driving force behind my contribution. I felt the thirst to constantly improve my knowledge, which would in-turn benefit the team. Though we were placed in the top 20, I was made aware of my shortcomings in exposure and knowledge, but significantly I was happy to note that it was not a shortcoming of ability or effort. I hope a graduate program in design would provide me the exposure and access to knowledge required to plug these shortcomings.
Courses like design, fluidics, thermal engineering, heat transfer etc pushed my interest towards machine design and fluid mechanics. I understood the magnitude of usage of the underlying fundamentals of these courses in the design of cars and machinery. It was here, in the middle of my degree program, that my aim and interests began to confluence into a stream.
I tried to experience various aspects of design through diverse project forays. I chose to design a robot for my first project. The experience of this project gave me my first taste of what I want to do in my professional life, design engineering. From an internship at Saipem India project services, a leading EPC company in Oil and Gas Industry worldwide, which I am currently pursuing on tank and nozzle load analysis, I hope to strengthen my knowledge on design and analysis techniques. I am also working on finalizing my final project topic in the area of fuel cell technology with Center for Fuel Cell Technology in Chennai, a leading center of excellence in the world.
Research in the United States has always pioneered constant technological advancements in the world. Being a prospective student for new challenging ideas, I believe that an opportunity for higher education in the United States would give me a broader and more informed perspective in the field of mechanical engineering. I intend to focus my research on the areas of application of design engineering, particularly in fluid-thermal systems. I am quite confident that, as a research assistant, I would be able to contribute my fullest to the university's growing research.
With considerable information about your university that I piled from the university's website and from friends already there, I am sure that your university will represent education in the US as I perceive it to be. I intend to finish as a successful mechanical engineer, and by success I do not mean monetary or material success but I intend to make a contribution to the field, and I look forward to continuing my journey in this regard through your university.
Have been working on this for a couple of weeks.. From a 2 page CV explanation it has come down to this.. for MS in mechanical..
Placed among the top twenty teams in the country in Virtual BAJA Design Challenge 2009 has been one of the highlights of my short professional journey as a mechanical engineer.
The competition to design an all terrain vehicle had the complexities of various aspects of design thrown at me. Tackling a lot of niggling problems with design in the first go resulted in an unrefined and an inefficient solution. More introspection and a better approach helped us achieve a better solution and a commendable result. My interest in design was the driving force behind my contribution. I felt the thirst to constantly improve my knowledge, which would in-turn benefit the team. Though we were placed in the top 20, I was made aware of my shortcomings in exposure and knowledge, but significantly I was happy to note that it was not a shortcoming of ability or effort. I hope a graduate program in design would provide me the exposure and access to knowledge required to plug these shortcomings.
Courses like design, fluidics, thermal engineering, heat transfer etc pushed my interest towards machine design and fluid mechanics. I understood the magnitude of usage of the underlying fundamentals of these courses in the design of cars and machinery. It was here, in the middle of my degree program, that my aim and interests began to confluence into a stream.
I tried to experience various aspects of design through diverse project forays. I chose to design a robot for my first project. The experience of this project gave me my first taste of what I want to do in my professional life, design engineering. From an internship at Saipem India project services, a leading EPC company in Oil and Gas Industry worldwide, which I am currently pursuing on tank and nozzle load analysis, I hope to strengthen my knowledge on design and analysis techniques. I am also working on finalizing my final project topic in the area of fuel cell technology with Center for Fuel Cell Technology in Chennai, a leading center of excellence in the world.
Research in the United States has always pioneered constant technological advancements in the world. Being a prospective student for new challenging ideas, I believe that an opportunity for higher education in the United States would give me a broader and more informed perspective in the field of mechanical engineering. I intend to focus my research on the areas of application of design engineering, particularly in fluid-thermal systems. I am quite confident that, as a research assistant, I would be able to contribute my fullest to the university's growing research.
With considerable information about your university that I piled from the university's website and from friends already there, I am sure that your university will represent education in the US as I perceive it to be. I intend to finish as a successful mechanical engineer, and by success I do not mean monetary or material success but I intend to make a contribution to the field, and I look forward to continuing my journey in this regard through your university.