Hello, i’m a mechanical engineering senior who aspires to get into a top 20 mechanical or aerospace engineering masters program and would like to ask for suggestions to up my seemingly poor odds. My credentials include:
Experience:
- Actively engage in different small projects, like making a catapult or working on arduino’s. Whether inside or outside university courses/classes.
- Worked on re-designing and fabricating a patented gastular medical tube with the help of an associate professor, the head of pediatrics and a huge petrochemicals company.
- Collaborated with colleagues to develop a 3D printed model of a new home grey water purification system that uses almost zero net energy from the grid. This was part of a university course.
- Chosen to represent the University to be a temporary Student team leader for the Solar Decathlon 2018 (SDME) for my abilities in speech, technical understanding, and communication. I was later assigned to be the control team coordinator.
- Currently working with an associate professor that’s doing an analytical dynamic based analysis on car tows to check whether the given standards by the vendor are valid or not. This is conducted for a government quality control institute.
- Currently working on designing and controlling a mechanism for a patented UAV with Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) propulsion system with a team of colleagues as a senior project.
- Have led teams with strong communication and presentation skills
- The ability to coordinate with fellow colleagues, management, and vendors to maximize results
- Volunteered to do a one class introductory course on thermodynamics for new ME students.
- Currently working on a solid-state cooling system (details on this are very confidential).
Skills and certificates:
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
Other college based certificates that include Matlab and 3D printing.
Lean six sigma black belt.
-Software technical proficiencies include AutoCAD, MATLAB, Solidworks and MS Office.
-Research and design proficiencies include computational fluid dynamics, Project/Quantification Planning, minor experience in ISO & Safety Compliance, dynamic and static Test Development, Design validation.
-Active listening and critical thinking skills for determining clients’ needs and implementing plans to make them a reality. -Excels in teamwork environments where engineers culminate their efforts, gather information, problem solve, and implement a strategy.
-Affinity for identifying the underlying principles affecting situations, which leads to less time brainstorming and more time actively building workable solutions.
GRE: still not taken.
Toefl: still not taken.
GPA: 3.5/4
Any suggestions are welcome, thank you in advance and hope the most amount of people would benefit from this post.