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I believe that the electrical engineering program at Purdue has not only armed me with a well-rounded knowledge of electrical engineering fundamental principles but also Purdue taught me how to conduct my-self as an ethical and a global engineer.

I have applied the knowledge from my electrical engineering classes to serve the community in the Engineering Projects in Community Services Program (EPICS) at Purdue. Our team is working under the supervision of Professor Sean Brophy, an associate professor in the mechanical engineering department at Purdue, on a project in which our team will produce a shake table. This shake table will simulate an artificial earthquake created by taking input from users jumping on a platform. I am the team leader of the interface team which is responsible for developing a user interface using a microcontroller, accelerometers and wireless transmitters and receivers. My duty is not only limited to supervising the user interface team but also I am collaborating with mechanical engineers to work on the electromechanical components like stepper motors to ensure that we achieve accurate physical simulations.

The other project that I am working on this semester deals with Global Navigation Satellite Systems Remote Sensing. My project supervisor is Professor James Garrison who is an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics and associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering. Our team is working on a unique application of GNSS signals, we are using these signals to do Earth’s remote sensing. For our research, we are observing direct signals from satellites before they hit the Earth’s surface and we inspect how these signals change after reflection. By measuring the changes in reflection we will be able to monitor soil moisture content anywhere in the world. My duties in this project include UHF antenna design and testing, fabrication of antenna mount, installation of these antennas on field towers and programming, testing of recording software.

During my undergraduate years at Purdue I have honed skills in many software tools that will help me be a successful engineer. I have experience in C language, Abel, Matlab, Assembly Language and Python. I also have strong know-how of circuit simulation in PSPICE.

Besides electrical engineering tools I have experience in computer aided design modeling using Solidworks and AutoCAD. I gained experience in CAD modeling when I was working in EPICS. I learned this skill because I was working with mechanical and civil engineers, and I think it made it easier for me to collaborate with them when we assembled the final product together. I believe that I will be a successful entry level electrical engineer because I have a solid and a vast academic background. I have taken courses in multiple areas of concentration which range from microcontroller programming and interfacing to semi-conductor device fundamentals. I have not only learned these principles in the class room but I have gone beyond academics and have applied these principles in community projects and research.

I also believe that the multicultural experiences I have gained at Purdue University which has the second largest international student population among public universities in the United States will allow me to work anywhere in the world. Classes at Purdue have always focused on making students work in diverse groups. This experience showed me how people from different cultural backgrounds try to approach engineering problems. I have learned to understand how to collaborate with engineers from different disciplines and even with students with non-engineering backgrounds during my first three years of undergraduate education at Purdue. I will graduate in the December of 2012 with a firm belief that I am ready join the workforce as a competent electrical engineer.

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