My Path to Electrical Engineering

In the summer of my first year at university, I suffered from a neck injury, which prevented me from studying and pulled me out of daily life for nearly four months. It was really a hard time, since I could not do anything except for practicing yoga meditation to assuage headaches. However, thanks to this time I realized the importance of working because of my strong natural demand for it. During these months, I began to understand myself clearly. I was aware that I want to dedicate myself to a research career to invent new things for people’s need. Since then firm determination on being an expert in Electrical Engineering – my favorite field since the childhood, has been engraved on my mind.

When I graduated from Mathematical School for Gifted Students - Hanoi National University, my first university was Hanoi University of Science and Technology – one of the best technical universities in Vietnam. After the official admission, I got the highest score in a very selective entrance exam among top freshmen to enroll Department for Training Talents, where a very competitive atmosphere with harder training was provided. In the first semester, I achieved an excellent academic performance, and then I had some choices for study abroad. South Russian State Technical University was my choice because I thought that Russia was a country with advanced technologies in my field of study – Automatics.

After my recovery from the neck injury, I started to work more intensively to keep up with classes and perfect myself to realize my objective. Participating in a wide range of activities such as Olympiads, fabricating two printed circuit boards with graduate students, I learnt valuable knowledge beyond what one can learn in classrooms and differe...

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...cal application and radiation detection at Integrated Microsystems Lab strongly attract me. I am confident that I can adapt the research groups quickly because of my solid background and research experience. I am open to working under other professors’ supervision involving all aspects of semiconductors devices, quantum electronics and very large scale integration design.

With my research experience and determination, I am well prepared for challenges of the PhD program at your department. I am looking forward to being a member of your working community. My personal experience and characters certainly guarantee that I am being a cooperative member in any research group at your school. Above all, I strongly believe I will be able to contribute my intelligence to the variety and competitiveness of your school. Please give me the chance to realize my goal of life.