Statement Of Purpose For Mechanical Engineering

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Statement of purpose We live in a continually changing world; however, my passion of engineering broke that fact. I can always remember when I was a kid how much I was obsessed with how the stuff around me functioned. When I was six years old, I disassembled my father mechanical alarm clock to see how it works; I still remember the glaze in my eyes while watching the gears inside the clock moving in a specific way to make this beautifully elegant yet simple invention. Since that day I became more obsessed with how the mechanics behind objects around me worked. During the summer of grade five, I became more enthusiastic about exploring mechanics. Since there weren’t too many experts around, a close friend of my father who owns a mechanic …show more content…

I became more interested in the application of the mechanics and I wanted to create stuff and gain hands on experience. My greatest motivation to choose Mechanical Engineering career was an extracurricular course that I attended during my High School sophomore year. Along with my tutor and team, I was able to create a solar powered robot. The robot was able to move without hitting obstacles, and it was able to do various tasks including crawling movements. That was a great opportunity for me to develop my leadership skills in my favored career. Moreover, the course also included an insight in machine design, which was a great enforcer to my stance on my college major choice. Furthermore, When I attended college I joined the robotics team and became the team lead at Prairie View A&M university and competed in the IEEE R5 Robotics Competition. Which gave me the chance to apply both my skills and my class knowledge in mechanical engineering which helped me hone and develop my skills in both machine design and overall mechanical …show more content…

I am Egyptian; however, I attended elementary, secondary and high school in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. My family then moved to the United States of America and I became a resident there; I then started to attend college in USA. The first question that comes to any person’s mind when he/she knows that I am a foreigner is “Where did you learn English?” This story began back when I was four years old. First, I was born in Egypt, and then when I was four months old the family moved to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for work. It was my time to start school; I went to a school called Asia School; the name obviously indicates that the school’s population was mostly Asian. It is considered as one of the best schools in Saudi Arabia. This school taught me all the fundamentals of my education and also I got the chance to deal with people from various backgrounds. Then, in 2002 my dad’s employer moved him to another city. So, it was time to move on after I was settled in my life and with my friends. I had to start all over in a new place, attend another school, and deal with people from different backgrounds than I am used to. Then for the third time, my father got relocated to the united states and I had to start and repeat all over again. All of those events in my life allowed me to deal with people from completely different life backgrounds and have education through completely different

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