留学申请书

　　Dear ---,

　　The personal data enclosed in this application file will demonstrate myprofile as a child prodigy who entered into Jilin University at 16 and joinedthe country's topmost scientific research institution as a graduate student at20. Now with an engineering e-perience of 4 years at the age of 24, I would liketo scale still higher intellectual heights by pursuing advanced studies, aneducation process that I hope will gain me the competitive edge for personalgrowth and push me to the forefront of scientific progress.

　　Immersed in the academic atmosphere of an intellectual family, I wasencouraged in my early childhood by my parents to read books in a wide range ofdisciplines. With this privileged background, I attended primary school at 6, atleast one year earlier than the normal admission age of 7 or older. I felt solucky-God blessed me with so many natural gifts. At an early age I showed anatural talent in mathematics and a strong memory, the attributes that enabledme to e-cel my classmates, especially in such challenging subjects asmathematics, physics and chemistry. I took part in a variety of provincial andnational contests, demonstrating my e-cellent academic skills and wining manyprizes.

　　Blessed with my academic potence, I was able to finish my primary andsecondary education in 10 years, two years ahead of the usual twelve years. At16, I entered a privileged class specially designed for the gifted students atJilin University, a cradle of scientific and technological talents in China. Theclass selects only 90 students out of more than 1000 child prodigies acrossChina each year. (Jilin University is a prestigious university of generaleducation with 20 departments and a regular annual enrollment of 1,500 students)I studied at Electrical Engineering (E. E) Department, a highly selectivedepartment with a gathering of smart students who are hard to compete with.

　　Four years of undergraduate studies had me well trained in a wide range ofdisciplines, and my outstanding academic performance encouraged me to pursue anadvanced degree. With a concentration on mathematics, communication andcomputer, I studied a variety of courses in my undergraduate years, among whichwere Higher Mathematics, Probability Statistics and Stochastic Process, Theoriesof Signal and Information, High Frequency Circuits and Principles of ModernCommunications Systems, Computer Principle and other courses in the ElectronicTechnology field. I also studied Western culture, History and Economics in orderto build up a good base for my education. With a wish to build a solidfoundation for my future research and study, I was fully devoted to my academictraining at college. My hard work proved to be successful. My overall GPA of3.57/4.0 ranked in the top one percent of my class. Upon graduation in 1994, Iwon easy acceptance into Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications as agraduate student at 20, an age when most Chinese students would be just startingtheir university education. At this university, I narrowed my academic interestdown to the area of mobile communications and digital communications.

　　My MA education proved to be another period of fruitful and successfulacademic pursuits. Among the courses I selected were Probability Theory, ISDN& ATM, SPC, Digital Signal Processing, Personal Communications, C++language. These disciplinary training prepared me to delve deeper in the studyof electrical engineering and communications. To keep me informed of the latestdevelopments in my field and to brush up my English language skills, I also readthe latest professional journals and periodicals of the telecommunications on aregular basis. Burning the course of my MA program, my outstanding academicrecords won me various scholarships in seven consecutive years, among which, toname a few, were E-cellent Students, E-cellent Person, E-cellent fellowship.

　　To garnish this writing with other personal activities other than academicachievements, I need to mention my perfect performance in a dancing contest atJilin University, which won me the first prize.

　　Anyway, looking back at my campus life, I feel confident to say that I havefulfilled the education goal to my satisfaction.

　　Teaching E-perienceI worked as a teaching assistant at the ElectronicsCircuit Group in Personal Communications in my third semester at BeijingUniversity of Posts and Telecommunications. I taught product applications andthe telecommunications development in China. I trained the students bytheoretical approach and also taught them how to solve real problems bypractical means. I found the teaching position so much enjoyable. The dailyacademic e-changes between the students and myself were beneficial to bothparties. I believe that my students enjoyed my teaching too because my classeswere well attended.

　　Starting from April 1998, I worked as a part-time teacher at HPcorporation. Later I was also employed by Software Center Motorola, China. Itaught Motorola customers the principle of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)and the usage of the HP instruments for testing CDMA Base station and CDMAHandset. Motorola customers were all satisfied with my teaching. I not onlygrasped advanced knowledge but also, more importantly, learned how to be a goodteacher.

　　Research E-perienceIn the second year of my graduate studies, I began towork as research assistant of Professor Dacheng Yang, a renowned e-pert indigital and mobile communication Research and Design Center of Ministry of Postsand Telecommunications. After learning the background, application, principle,and advantage of CDMA, I selected the signaling design of the CDMA Base StationInterface as my research topic. I evaluated and studied the protocols IS-95,IS-634 and the ULTRA interface protocols of Lucent. Applying softwareengineering method and Oriented-Object approach, I designed the internalinterface of Base Station System between BSC and BTS-Abis interface, which isone of the most important parts of such a large and sophisticated project. Thenreferring to protocols LAPD/LAPF, integrating the latest knowledge and using onestep. By working on this project, I learned more about CDMA, GSM and othermobile communications systems. Later I felt so proud to hear what I had done wasdownloaded to the board and the design ran flawlessly.

　　Working E-perienceAfter I obtained my MA degree in engineering in 1997, Iwas employed by a telecommunication branch company of Posts &Telecommunications Industry Company. I participated in the JSU18 switchingSystem Project, which is planned to produce the si-th largest switching systemin China's own switching systems. I was in charge of the No.7 signaling sectionand developed the trunk communication system. Referring to protocol Q. 764, etc,I designed the TUP (Telephone User Part) & ISUP (ISDN User Part) - the mostimportant part of a switching system-with C++ Language. By now, I have finishedthe software flow of CPC (call process) of these two parts. Through programming,downloading the procedure into the real switching system, debugging and testing,I came to deeply understand the call process of the large switching system andthe relationship between all the modules of a large switching system. Theprocedure that I completed is so good that we can call successfully throughit.

　　In working on these two projects, I cultivated diligent work habits,independent research ability and team spirit. I feel I have the potential forfurther further academic growth and am ready to take up the challenge ofadvanced studies in my chosen field.

　　From August 1998, I joined Software center Motorola, China and got involvedin the CDMA project. We must communicate with international customers on afrequent basis in English environment. So I not only learned about the e-cellentsoftware development process and various branches of advanced knowledge, butalso improved my English ability. Here, we often e-change our findings atpresentations given by others and myself in English. I get a lot of technicaland non - technical training, in such subjects as Software Product Process, CDMA( Code Division Multiple Access), GSM, GPRS ( General Packet Radio Service - thethird generation system of GSM), TTCN ( Tree and Tabular Combined Notation - atest language), ITE- ( Interactive TTCN Editor and e-ecutor - a test tool forthe TTCN language), and even English language.

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