University Choices & Profile Evaluation for MS/PhD in Electrical Engg Fall 2013
Hi,
Dear Group Members,
It is my dream to get MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering in areas of RF/Antenna/Microwave/ Telecommunication/Optics from Top 10 US Universities. I have worked through years to improve my academic, professional & research profile to achieve my dream. Please provide suggestions to further improve my profile to achieve my dream. I have not done MS degree in Electrical Engineering; please suggest can I directly apply for PhD with this profile to get financial aid from Top US Universities. Please provide your opinion on my university choices regarding the strengths/weaknesses of my profile using following choices (ambitious/easy to get/ moderate chances/ safe/ unachievable)
My overall educational, professional, research profile is as follows:
EDUCATIONAL PROFILE:
MBA (Telecommunication Management): 83%
B.E (Electronics): 73% with Final Year Project Marks: 194/200.
12th Grade: 83%
10th Grade: 87%
1st position throughout school
STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES:
GRE Scores: 1160/1600
Quantative: 760
Verbal : 400
AWA: 3.5
IELTS: 7.5/9 band
Listening: 8
Speaking: 7
Writing: 7
Reading:7.5
TOEFL: 98/120
Reading:22
Listening:25
Speaking:24
Writing:27
WORK EXPERIENCES:
Total Work Experience : 5 years (approx)
Nature of Job: Research & Development
Work Description: Satellite RF/Antenna (Design, Simulation, Development & Testing)
Job Designation: Assistant Manager (Electronics/ Microwave) will be promoted next year as Manager of my Lab!!!!!
Work experience also includes 4 one month internships in RF Planning & Optimization of different leading Telecommunication Companies.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:
IEEE CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS: 7 papers published in IEEE International Conferences held in China in 2010 & 2011. I was selected as session chairperson for one of my papers in one of the conferences. Mentioned Conferences are supported by IEEE Antenna Propagation Society & Microwave Theory & Techniques Society.
2 papers published in non IEEE well reputed peer reviewed USA Conference.
Wrote a 26 page book chapter for a open access publisher as well.
Lots of more research papers ready on the way to be sent to IEEE international conferences.
HONORS/AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Achieved Excellence Award within my organization for year 2010
Achieved 6 Officer of the month awards during my office service
1st Position holder throughout my school career
I receive daily requests from world class conferences to attend,submit & publish papers.
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS:
Received lots of professional trainings from World Class Antenna/ Microwave Giant Companies as well.
LIST OF UNIVERSITY CHOICES:
Brief list of my Top 10 dream US universities are as follows.
1) MIT
2) Stanford
3) Berkeley
4) Caltech
5) UCLA
6) Harvard
7) Michigan Ann Arbor
8) Georgia Tech
9) Texas Austin Cockrell
10) Illinois Urbana Champaign
Other universities I am interested in are as follows:
11) Southern California
12) Ohio State Uni
13) Virginia Tech
14) California Santa Barbara
15) John Hopkins
16) Maryland
However I am bit confused to think about applying to these universities as I dont know much about their Electrical Engineering programs.
17) Princeton
18) Pennsylvenia
19) Carnegie Mellon
20) Cornell
21) Columbia
22) Yale
23) New York
24) Purdue
25) California San Diego
26) North Western
27) California Davis
Waiting for honest response from your side.
Best regards.
