Engineering grad school - ?need specific prior experience in area of interest?

gigicat
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:22:25 +0000

Darth,
Thank you so much for your helpful reply.
I have heard it is important to personally contact a PI or faculty doing research that I want to pursue at each individual school I apply to, in order to put together a coherent Statement of Purpose for each individual school and to get a better idea if this a good place for me. (All the programs are in the same specific field of my interest but the specific research done at each is a little different). Apart from the obvious discussion around our shared interest, are there specific questions I should ask them? These discussions will be prior to my application submission. Thanks.