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Jan 3, 2023
Graduate / Growing my technical roots genuinely - Statement of purpose for Materials Science Master MaMaSELF [2]
It's a true and sincere reason on why I want to do it. I didn't dream about it ever since I was a child because it is a lie. In reality most of didn't know what we wanted to be when we grew up until we did grow up.
This is my statement of purpose for the MaMaSELF Materials Science program offered by the Erasmus Mundus Program.
Dear Sir or Madam
Back in 2018, during my last semester at XXXX, I started this same application to pursue my goal of studying materials science and engineering abroad in the MaMaSelf program. Unfortunately, at the time, my family was not able to support this goal economically nor emotionally. That same year, I had to start working to help my family. My dad paid for my university tuition with his Mexican salary for the four years and now it was time to start saving. The week before graduation I landed a job that was the perfect fit, a company transferring their pilot plant from the United States to the same city I grew up in Mexico and where all my family was. It was the best chemical engineering experience I have had so far, but this year I am prepared to take on the goal I have had since then, study Materials Science and Engineering abroad.
I desired to continue my education in materials science after graduating from chemical engineering and I did so but in a different way that I initially expected. This company gave me the opportunity to discover tantalum powder technology in the practical field. I remember that during the interview, I was extremely excited hearing about the metallurgical process I was going to be facing because it was materials science in real life. That same year I was so proud that I learned how to use inorganic chemistry outside of the classroom.
The knowledge about creating tantalum powder from a molten salt reaction was so well spread out around the whole plant that I could learn something new from the operators and engineers alike. The team was broad, we had people from Mexico transferring the chemical plant equipment while the US engineers and operators ran the chemical operation while training the Mexican engineers. As I learned the process from the operators, how to load a reactor, manually load aqua regia into acid barrels, run a heat treatment furnace and a deoxidation furnace, and the lab procedures from the lab technicians I was humbled at how each person managing each process was key to success. I quickly picked up both work cultures. I had the opportunity to collaborate very closely with the teams in Mexico and US and virtually with the team in China and everyone was happy to lend a hand. This sense of multiculturalism grew stronger in me. Learning to collaborate with a team with a different language and cultural background helped me stay humble and acquire knowledge in different ways from all teams.
The person I learned the most from was my manager, the technical director. He had more years' experience working with tantalum than I had been alive at the time. He was kind and generous when sharing what he knew. He wanted to keep the research of tantalum powder alive for young engineers and upcoming generations. Engineers would always come to him when they faced a problem in the chemical plant that needed a scientific approach. He was a person who would use Maxwell's equations or Faraday's Law, which were written in his coffee mug, as a resource for solving practical problems. From him I learned that the more you resource to basic chemistry and physics, the easier the hard problems will be crushed to the ground.
That inspired me, spreading knowledge freely to people with different levels of education, doctors in science as well as engineers who had English language barriers or operators who had limited education. I wanted to become more like that. A person who knew how to work with everyone, who did not stop learning and who resourced to the best scientists in history to help solve an odd problem in a chemical facility. My pursuit for my future is to become a technical manager in a world-renowned company or laboratory. I want to become an expert in metallurgy and mining not only by my short experience in powder metallurgy, but by ground research. It is well known that a tree will not grow if its roots are not well established. I am certain that MaMaSelf is the right approach to achieve my goals by allowing me to grow my technical roots deeply and allowing me to work with a very diverse and dynamic team.
It's a true and sincere reason on why I want to do it. I didn't dream about it ever since I was a child because it is a lie. In reality most of didn't know what we wanted to be when we grew up until we did grow up.
Statement of purpose
This is my statement of purpose for the MaMaSELF Materials Science program offered by the Erasmus Mundus Program.
Dear Sir or Madam
Back in 2018, during my last semester at XXXX, I started this same application to pursue my goal of studying materials science and engineering abroad in the MaMaSelf program. Unfortunately, at the time, my family was not able to support this goal economically nor emotionally. That same year, I had to start working to help my family. My dad paid for my university tuition with his Mexican salary for the four years and now it was time to start saving. The week before graduation I landed a job that was the perfect fit, a company transferring their pilot plant from the United States to the same city I grew up in Mexico and where all my family was. It was the best chemical engineering experience I have had so far, but this year I am prepared to take on the goal I have had since then, study Materials Science and Engineering abroad.
I desired to continue my education in materials science after graduating from chemical engineering and I did so but in a different way that I initially expected. This company gave me the opportunity to discover tantalum powder technology in the practical field. I remember that during the interview, I was extremely excited hearing about the metallurgical process I was going to be facing because it was materials science in real life. That same year I was so proud that I learned how to use inorganic chemistry outside of the classroom.
The knowledge about creating tantalum powder from a molten salt reaction was so well spread out around the whole plant that I could learn something new from the operators and engineers alike. The team was broad, we had people from Mexico transferring the chemical plant equipment while the US engineers and operators ran the chemical operation while training the Mexican engineers. As I learned the process from the operators, how to load a reactor, manually load aqua regia into acid barrels, run a heat treatment furnace and a deoxidation furnace, and the lab procedures from the lab technicians I was humbled at how each person managing each process was key to success. I quickly picked up both work cultures. I had the opportunity to collaborate very closely with the teams in Mexico and US and virtually with the team in China and everyone was happy to lend a hand. This sense of multiculturalism grew stronger in me. Learning to collaborate with a team with a different language and cultural background helped me stay humble and acquire knowledge in different ways from all teams.
The person I learned the most from was my manager, the technical director. He had more years' experience working with tantalum than I had been alive at the time. He was kind and generous when sharing what he knew. He wanted to keep the research of tantalum powder alive for young engineers and upcoming generations. Engineers would always come to him when they faced a problem in the chemical plant that needed a scientific approach. He was a person who would use Maxwell's equations or Faraday's Law, which were written in his coffee mug, as a resource for solving practical problems. From him I learned that the more you resource to basic chemistry and physics, the easier the hard problems will be crushed to the ground.
That inspired me, spreading knowledge freely to people with different levels of education, doctors in science as well as engineers who had English language barriers or operators who had limited education. I wanted to become more like that. A person who knew how to work with everyone, who did not stop learning and who resourced to the best scientists in history to help solve an odd problem in a chemical facility. My pursuit for my future is to become a technical manager in a world-renowned company or laboratory. I want to become an expert in metallurgy and mining not only by my short experience in powder metallurgy, but by ground research. It is well known that a tree will not grow if its roots are not well established. I am certain that MaMaSelf is the right approach to achieve my goals by allowing me to grow my technical roots deeply and allowing me to work with a very diverse and dynamic team.
