Chance to EECS

Graduate School
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<p>Hi all, </p>

<p>I need your help to evaluate my profile, I would like to apply for a graduate program in US this Fall in the field of mobile and wireless communications. The question is, do I have chance to be admitted to EECS program at MIT(They require no GRE score and my TOEFL is above 250, so the general test requirements are fulfilled). So, this is my profile : </p>

<p>Education
Technical University of Dresden Dresden, Germany
Dipl.-Ing. (MSc) in Electrical Engineering
GPA 1.4/1.0 (1.0 is the best grade) - 1st rank in class
• Concentrations: Wireless and Mobile Communications, Antennas, RF and Microwave Circuits, Signal Processing, Wave Propagation
• Thesis title: Reconfigurable Antenna Array </p>

<p>Work Experience and Internship
Present Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory Darmstadt, Germany
Researcher, Project and Teaching Assistant
• Design and optimize RF-components for particle accelerator S-DALINAC: German Research Foundation (DFG) Project
• Associate lectures and exercises regarding electromagnetics, numerical methods in EM and communications technology
• Support and response training, seminar and practice dealing software in EM filed calculation, CAD for EM and numerical method in EM </p>

<p>2004-2005 Chair for Electromagnetic Theory and EMC Dresden, Germany
Research Assistant (in cooperation with European Space Agency)
• Analyzed and processed data sent from Huygens probe
• Analyzed algorithm to solve the inverse scattering problems for space experiment CONSERT (COmet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission)-ESA’s unmanned space mission Rosetta
• Prepared and executed computer simulation and laboratory measurements in the context of quasi-tomographic transmission space measurement CONSERT </p>

<p>2004-2005 Chair for RF and Microwave Engineering Dresden, Germany
Research Assistant
• Designed, simulated, implemented and measured antennas, microwave circuits and radio wave propagation
• Researched adaptive and reconfigurable antenna arrays for improving of base station in mobile communications systems (UMTS and 4G planning)
• Prepared and set up high-frequency laboratory
• Studied MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) </p>

<p>2004 Siemens AG Berlin, Germany
Trainee
• Tested and designed of RF devices in mobile communication networks
• Designed and implemented antennas and microwave circuits
• Processed datasheet and handbooks of RF devices and microwave circuits </p>

<p>2001 Shin Satellite Public Co., Ltd. Bangkok, Thailand
Satellite Control Engineer
• Controlled, maintained and monitored national satellites and base station
• Configured and managed all of electronic equipments in base station
• Solved problems happened to satellites and systems
• Found new solutions for improving satellite systems </p>

<p>Activities
2004 Staff at International Office (AAA), TU Dresden, Germany
2003 Tutor at International Office (AAA), TU Dresden, Germany </p>

<p>Honors and Scholarships
2004 Diploma(MSc)-Thesis Grant, State of Saxony, Germany
2003 Stipendium mit Betreuung (Scholarship), International Office(AAA), TU Dresden, Germany
2002 Stibetstipendium (Scholarship), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)-TU Dresden, Germany </p>

<p>Other Experience
Invited talks and presentations
2005 Design and Optimization of 3-GHz Chopper/Prebuncher System for Particle Accelerator S-DALINAC, Symposium of Research on Nuclear Physics and Beamdynamics, Computational Electromagnetics Lab. and Institute for Nuclear Physics, TU Darmstadt, Germany
2005 Development and Status of Polarized Electron Source of S-DALINAC, German Physics Society, Munich, Germany
2005 Smart Antennas using Application of Photo-Voltaic FET Switch, Foundation for Research on IT in Society, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Adaptive Antenna Array for SDMA Systems, Communication Technology Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2004 MEMS in Reconfigurable Antenna Arrays, Laboratory for Wireless Communications, TU Darmstadt, Germany </p>

<p>Technical Report
2003 Spatio-Temporal Signal Processing in Wireless Communication, Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications Systems, TU Dresden, Germany
2005 Reconfigurable Antenna Array for Mobile and Wireless Communications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Dresden, Germany </p>

<p>Projects
2005 Developement of Wideband Pickup Antennas for Ion Beam, German Research Foundation in cooperation with DESY(German Synchrotron-Hamburg), GSI(Research Organization for Heavy Ion-Darmstadt) and Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
2005 Numerical Simulation and Design of Wideband Pickup Electrodes, DESY(German Synchrotron-Hamburg), GSI(Research Organization for Heavy Ion-Darmstadt) and Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany </p>

<p>Workshop
2005 Intermediate Accelerator Physics Course, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Trieste, Italy</p>

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<p>hey i'm in the dept right now and i think your resume looks really good but it's really a toss-up depending on who reads your application and what areas of research they want this year. it's VERY IMPORTANT that you apply to the right area or the wrong people may read your application. a friend of mine with a 4.0 from a top 5 eecs dept was rejected (but came to mit through another program) and when he talked to a eecs prof he was told that he should've applied to another area</p>

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<p>Do you know what areas in EECS are easier to get into? Also, I am interested in doing graduate work in devices/electronic materials. Is it easier to get into MIT's Mat Sci department rather than EECS?</p>

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<p>Many large programs including Stanford EE and Berkeley EECS make admissions decisions by committee, so your area is not a big factor. Materials Science PhD programs tend to be less selective than EECS programs in general.</p>

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<p>''hey i'm in the dept right now and i think your resume looks really good but it's really a toss-up depending on who reads your application and what areas of research they want this year. it's VERY IMPORTANT that you apply to the right area or the wrong people may read your application. a friend of mine with a 4.0 from a top 5 eecs dept was rejected (but came to mit through another program) and when he talked to a eecs prof he was told that he should've applied to another area''</p>

<p>Hi, thanks a lot for your reply, and sorry for replying late.....</p>

<p>I have a few question regarding admission process and hope you come back to reply me again.</p>

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<li><p>I have chosen 3 different research areas, communications, signal processing and electromagnetics but in my statement of purpose, I write all of it only in the area of mobile and wireless communications. Does it effect my chance to the other areas? As in my resume, you can see that my experience has no specific focus on any area. That would be any disadvantage?</p></li>
<li><p>From your answer, that means there are many admission committee for considering applicant's documents?</p></li>
<li><p>I have a problem, I have no publication let's say international journal or paper in the relevant field. Does this effect much on my chance?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks a lot guy, I really appreciate your answer.</p>

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<p>Pleaseeeee.....do reply my questionnnnn.....</p>

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<p>I don't know the answers to all your questions, but here are a few thoughts I learned from the grad. school app. process.</p>

<p>No matter how diverse your research experiences have been (mine certainly where all over the place), turn that into a postive by saying "X has taught me..., Y has taught me .... These experiences confirm my desire to pursue Z". Interdisciplinary is good, but make sure what you say meshes with one or two faculty members' research and mention his/their name(s) in you personal statement. Unless you have external funding, you will need an RA offer from a research group to attend so you want to attract the attention of a particular person.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot la<em>vie</em>est_belle, I really appreciate that much.</p>

<p>From your answers, think I didn't write down any professors' name in my SoP but only their work by writing specifically that I want to do my research and PhD in X and Y. This should be ok?</p>

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<p><em>bounce</em></p>

<p>Please, I need more reply...</p>