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Go for the Best

‘Ping!’ I dashed out from the start line of the 4*100 Mixed Relay Race—a game in which one female and three males run in relay. Soon I left everyone else way behind and began a race against myself. Run, Run, all out...Watch out the successor, and catch up with him! Baton handover success. Perfect! Thanks to the seamless cooperation of four locomotives at top speeds, the relay team of my class of EE25 has never fallen to the second place in any departmental game. While for other class teams the lady remains the bottleneck, I am proud that for us, the lady becomes the key to victory, because of me.

Go for the best, in races not only on the track, but also in studies. Achieving an overall GPA of 87.8/100 and major 88.7/100 that surpassed 87% of the fellow students, I chased for more than mere numbers on school records. In every team project—the virtual MOSFET CPU project, the FPGA dorm phone sharing solution, the China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, and many more--I bravely assume the most demanding part; for every piece of independent work, I strive to go deeper than required. Think, and a simplest thing would mean a great deal more than expected. In numerous independent lab or class projects, my careful design and in-depth investigation from unique perspectives never failed in getting the full mark.

Go for Real Experience

In a habit of exploration and analysis, I extract more knowledge and experience than others do from course projects (refer to resume for a list of major projects) however simple they are. In experiences of real projects however, I get the chance to tackle real-world engineering problems. When interning at the National Optical Lithography Research Center, in developing the alignment system control software of a 100nm-based optical lithographer, I aptly made use of simple geometric property in substitution of the non-linear curvature fitting method, to locate the center of the wafer. No complex theory was involved, but the result turned out excellent.

Go for Extension

As Lao-tzu said, ‘he who knows all is not wise, while he who is wise does not know all.’ Extraction of wisdom from knowledge, rather than knowledge itself, is what matters.

I look into miscellaneous fields of study, but keep footed in the ground of Electrical Engineering--in other engineering fields I seek the role of electrical engineering; in other sciences I look for principles that can possibly offer general guidance for problems in engineering.

The project of optical lithography was one of my interdisciplinary approaches. In the course of ‘Automotive Electronics and Control’ currently in progress, I try to understand a mechanic’s demand for an electronic brain in the network of numerous sensors and actuators inside his car. ‘In Economic Applications of Game Theory’ however, it occurred to me that the theory of asymmetric information games would find application in resource management in technical information networks.

All these have given me a broadened vision that deepens my understanding of Electrical Engineering, of engineering, of the inter-related world of knowledge, and of life as well.

Set Out for a New Start

At the final stage of four years’ intensive while extensive preparation of knowledge and academic quality, it is time I sought a new start.

In the Physics course in English by Prof. Michael Bisset, a Berkeley doctorate, I experienced teaching that not only imparted the knowledge, but also led students through the exploration of knowledge: model abstraction, solution, result interpretation, and further refinement. Engagement in this process gave me the greatest pleasure when learning the course, and I continued this enjoyment in class projects as well as modeling contests.

‘Transformation’ is another fascinating idea. It’s everywhere: Fourier transformation, conformal transformation, coordinate conversion, and so on. How eager I am to transform the world with this elegant and smart idea of transformation!

Having performed outstandingly in physics and engineering mathematics courses, good at modeling, and with an interdisciplinary view, I am ready for further pursuit in the engineering field. Gradually I recognized my interest in studies concerning electromagnetics and microwave engineering. Full marks in ‘Fundamentals of Microwave Engineering’, high score in ‘Electromagnetic field and Microwave Experiment’, enrollment in ‘Project of RF Communication System’ and ‘RF Communication Circuits’ this semester, after class reading on principles of antenna, all testify my efforts in preparation for the graduate studies in electromagnetic application in communication engineering. Signal processing issues in this field are also attractive to me. My mother is an engineer in avionic EMC, but I want to be a scientist that explores guidelines for engineers.

Go for the Best! Passionate, in a down-to-earth manner inherited from my engineer parents and grandfathers, I earnestly apply for a position in UT Austin’s reputed ECE graduate program, a best place to develop and exploit my capacities. Please let ECE UT Austin be my new start!

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