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美国留学工业工程专业个人陈述范文2篇
范文一
Personal Statement
Intended Program: Industrial Design
I was an industrial designer before I knew that I was. Suppose you were required to remove the scales of a fish or the skin of a potato, what would you do? My solution was simple—find 10 lids of bear bottles and nail them, inside out, in two rows onto a strip of wood. The zigzag structures would make this a handy tool, which was at once cost-efficient and environmentally friendly as it was recycled from waste industrial materials that would otherwise be buried in dump hills. Though this hand-made industrial product I invented when I was an elementary school student was not manufactured on a commercial basis, my parents and all the neighbors liked it for its practicality.
Yet, I was deeply aware of its inherent limitations. It was coarse and rough and did not look beautiful. I told myself that I must create a beautiful design. Then the opportunity came. Representing our school, I participated in a XX and, by exercising my talents in painting, I produced a very “artistic” design which brought me a winning prizing.
In retrospect, it was my family background that triggered my creative design impulses. Both of my parents are architectural designers and in their studios I could meet their colleagues and friends who were architects, structure engineers, interior designers and furniture designers. Under their influence, my early design works already manifested three essential elements of modern industrial design—functional pragmatism, aesthetic appeal, and environmental friendliness.
Now, on the verge of completing my undergraduate program in industrial design at the Department of XXX of XX University, I have gained a heightened understanding of industrial design as a scientific discipline. I have not only laid a solid academic foundation by excelling in all my specialized courses and achieving top scores in almost all of them; I have also improved my practical design skills through producing dozens of refined and sensitive works (please refer to my portfolio). As a junior student, I represented my university to participate in two international design competitions “XX” and “XX” Through effective teamwork, we succeeded in completing our competing pieces “XX” and “XX”
My undergraduate program is a journey of explorations and discoveries. While developing my scholastic aptitudes and practical skills, I have honed my aesthetic sensibility, perception of the world around us, and understanding of human needs. It is a process of unraveling my potentials and giving free play of my creative mind. My designs are characterized by bold originality, tempered by meticulous attention to even the minutest detail. In choosing industrial design, I have given full ventilation to my artistic impulses and concern for practical human demands.
Yet, a humiliating experience wrought an indelible memory on my mind, triggering my determination to pursue an advanced education in industrial design. At the end of the first semester, our department received a delegation of industrial designers from a German university. When touring XX, one of the delegates said to me: “I do not see many good design examples in this oriental metropolis. The gray buildings, with their uniform colors and contours, merge with the gray skyline indistinctively. The street lamps, bicycles, and cars, hardly any of them capture your attention.” I wanted to protest, but I had to admit that the first-rate designs are those of foreign products and the so-called good domestic designs are mostly copies of western design ideas. Under such circumstances, how to be truly creative becomes a question that has long obsessed me.
As far as I am concerned, the only way out of this dilemma confronting Chinese designers is to “think globally and act locally.” Against the backdrop of globalization, it is not that Chinese designers are not creative; the only problem is that they have failed to channel their creative impulses into international styles. To think globally is to develop international perspectives that may enable them to become leaders in a rapidly changing global culture. To act locally is to transmute their private and national experiences into tangible design expressions. The integration of the international thinking and local action will lead to design works at once aesthetically appealing and thematically eloquent. The individual experiences of Chinese designers are significant only to the extent that they are fused with international sensibilities.
Toward such an objective, it is necessary for me to go to the cultural melting pot that is the XX to experience how cultural pluralism has contributed to creative design and how the faculty and students of different cultural backgrounds communicate and interact with one another. I would like to explore the role that desiring, designing and producing play in the birth of a creative work. I would like to seek solution to two important questions—“How is it possible for me, as a native Chinese, to imbue the Chinese cultural elements and styles with new, modern, and global ones?” and “What’s the new role of designers with regard to the changing economic conditions of today and tomorrow?” I really want to become a designer who is an articulate original thinker, demonstrates leadership skills and seeks to use design as a vehicle for discovery and self-expression.
However, being a mere designer solely devoted to the solution of technical issues is not my total intention. I am equally interested in the idea of “total design program” in which the designer is not solely responsible for originating creative concepts but also for assuming the role of a manager who links up the otherwise discrete steps in the creation of a finished design product. The birth of a satisfying product is not simply determined by the pure design factors. It also depends on inter-departmental coordination, on technical support from engineering sciences and on marketing strategies. Otherwise, even the most original ideas would die in their infancy. In other words, a total design program is a perfect marriage of design objectives and business objectives. The designer is required to play a growing role in the management of a design program. Therefore, the idea of “design for design’s sake” is not sufficient. Designers need to be informed of the market feedbacks in order to deliver a total solution that addresses the clients’ needs on all fronts, including business details. In a word, the designer must have a clear awareness of the business context in which the design must thrive.
In this connection, I would like to seek answer to the question “How can I improve my skills to interact with other players in a particular design project and even serve as an agent for both the buyer/user and the seller/manufacturer?” I have attempted to hunt for an answer to this question by doing an internship this summer at a local company that designs advertisements for industrial products. It is so encouraging to find that the M.F.A. program offered by the School of Art & Design of the University of XX addresses this issue by treating the often overlooked “distribution” as a major component of a comprehensive, articulated process of creation. In order to ensure that creative work ultimately engages an audience in some context, your program teaches students to explore intentional distribution options, as well as issues of economic feasibility, information communication technology and social networking.
Through your program, I will be taught how to expand the intellectual reach of creative work and to utilize a comprehensive process for bringing creative work into the world. Apart from coursework, your program encourages students’ free exploration of creativity by involving them in summer collaborative projects, culminating activities including public exhibitions, creations in individual private studios, and group presentations of creative works. I believe that my prospective education in your graduate school will be an unparalleled opportunity for me to broaden my perspectives, improve my comprehensive skills, and prepare for an exciting career. But the most important outcome I expect from my embarking on your program is that, by capitalizing on my cross-cultural experiences, I will be well equipped to chart new directions in tomorrow’s creative work.
范文二
Personal Statement
Applied Program: Industrial Engineering (IE)
“God would laugh when human beings think,” a popular saying goes like this. I don’t know how much truth there is in this saying, but if human beings stop thinking, they will be no long called human beings, will they?
I recall this popular saying when I’m writing the present statement because it is my incessant thinking that has been inspiring my thirst for and persevering pursuit of knowledge. It is through this pursuit that I have been tempering myself and adding value to my life. I’m fully aware that if I want to add more value to my life, I should never be content with what I have learned in my undergraduate education and the achievements I have made in my work in well-known multinational enterprises. Instead, I should strive to scale new heights. Now it is the right time I apply for a Ph.D. program in industrial engineering, my specialized field of interest.
I consider my work experience at XX – a well-known international IT company - as an asset for myself. The company put a lot of trust in me. I was made responsible for the implementation and maintenance of all ERP systems in all its factories in China and was appointed a key member for implementing the manufacturing management system of a refrigerator factory. Besides, I was a key member and advisor for the implementation of the Hub system – a logistics solution - for two DVD/CD-ROM factories. I was honored an Excellent Employee in only half a year after joining the company. Moreover, I won appreciations from my superiors and colleagues with my sound communication skills, learning ability and work performance.
In fact, I have dealt with many aspects of industrial engineering in my work before joining XX. I had been working on designing and development of an ERP system in XX Technologies Co., Ltd. - a dynamic company in the tobacco industry - from July 2000 to August 2002. I was specifically responsible for designing and programming the warehouse management and equipment and parts procurement module, analysis of program requirements and design of the CRM prototype system. I spared no efforts in searching for the optimal solution and making on-site investigations to familiarize myself with the operation procedures in all departments covering procurement, warehouse management, customer service and channel management, and getting a large amount of most valuable data and experience.
I know well that my fruitful work performance would not be possible without my successful undergraduate education at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of XX University – a key university in China. In the curriculum for the specialty of Measurement Technology and Instruments, I developed a strong interest in a wide range of courses including Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics, Fundamentals of Control Theory, Computer Control Technology and Digital Signal Processing. I was obsessed with the things different theories can do. Probability predicts the likelihood that an event will occur. Statistics taught me how to perform analysis. Control theories showed me that the world consists of large and small systems that are interrelated and interact with each other and life is always in a positive/negative feedback at a certain moment. Computers do complicated calculations and make machines work automatically to do the things man can or cannot do. And it was so fulfilling when programs I compiled controlled the computer in completing different tasks. My study of these courses laid a sound foundation for my development of interest in industrial engineering.
Meanwhile, I never confined myself to my own specialty because I knew this would make my perspective narrow and unenlightened. I would read extensively in the library books and journals in hologram informatics, computer science, expert systems as well as novels and journals in English. I was often so engrossed in my reading that I forgot the time.
I was honored an Excellent Student of my department in my third year for distinguished academic and extracurricular development. However, what really distinguished me is my graduation thesis for which I brought into full play my ability to apply knowledge and exercise independent thinking. At the time, I was taking part in my supervisor’s project to design and develop a real-time locomotive operation simulation system for the XX. Therefore, I decided to base my thesis on researches in the project for its practical significance— the simulation system could be used to calculate the most rationalized acceleration and deceleration speed for the locomotive at different times and places. I encountered many challenges in my research. For example, I didn’t know much about the performance of the motors in different models of locomotives. However, I didn’t give up. I consulted a wide range of documents, studied the most commonly used locomotive models and designed the basic computation model. Finally, I successfully completed my thesis and the results computed by the model were highly accurate. I received full recognition and high appraisal from my supervisor for my contribution to the project.
While I have made outstanding achievements in my work, I have also observed the hard facts in China’s machinery industry and other industries in their rapid development. As reported frequently in the media, China is becoming the major manufacturing base of the world. However, we have been mainly relying on cheap labor to make up for our discrepancy in technology, while it is a known fact that the core competitiveness of an enterprise or a country lies in the improvement of efficiency, quality and technology-intensive products. To achieve this goal, we need a variety of tools. Industrial engineering is one of such tools because it improves productivity of the entire society, lowers cost and improves quality. Moreover, as an interdisciplinary subject that encompasses integral system design, implementation and improvement for human resource, materials, equipment, information, energy environment, etc., industrial engineering requires planning, forecast and evaluation of the effectiveness of the above systems with industrial analysis and design theories and methods. Therefore, a practitioner in this field has to have comprehensive knowledge in mathematics, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. And as a discipline bridging engineering and scientific management, it covers a wide range of fields including operations research, human factors, manufacturing engineering, quality control, management engineering and information systems.
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of the University of XX is known for its strong faculty and the fusion between research and applications. Therefore, I wish to pursue further studies there. If admitted into your program, I will bring into full play my independent thinking, creative and innovative spirit and self-improvement quality in both my studies and research. The fields I’m specially interested in include investigation of analytical and computational methods for optimization or stochastic, including risk analysis, and the development of methodologies for the design, planning and control of systems in a variety of application domains, including manufacturing, distribution, material handling, transportation, power generation, health care, financial services, information services, and governmental services.
Through studying at your university, I will pursue my professional development in six I’s: Integration: integration of engineering technology and management technology; Information: applications of information systems; Intelligence: expanding my high level intelligence; Interaction: collaboration, personal communication and team spirit; Idea: development of ideas and creativity; International: broad international perspectives.
My personal motto is “Self-discipline and Social Commitment”. I have been setting one challenging target after another in the past to boost my thinking and enterprising spirit with lasting enthusiasm. I believe that I will become a top-notch scholar in industrial engineering through studying at your university. After I return to China on completing my program at your university, I will train more engineers in industrial engineering back in China. I will dedicate all my life to the prosperity and well-being of this society.
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