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美国硕士留学个人陈述范文
Purpose - PhD Management (SOP I have completed my four year Bachelor of Technology

program at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. I graduated in July 1998 with a degree in

Mechanical Engineering. Many of my courses and research activities in the final year were in the field

of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research with a strong focus on production and operations management. I am

presently working in Tata Technologies India Ltd., an information technology firm that is involved in the areas

of enterprise integration and CAD/CAM. I am applying for admission and financial aid to the Ph.D. program

in Operations Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University. Detailed information about my academic

record and my research and other experience is attached to this statement. I was introduced to mathematics

and the physical sciences while at school and it was in high school that I considered a

career in this area. The desire to study the applied physical sciences and mathematics prompted me to

take the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology. I was ranked

in the top 0.25 % of the nearly 1,00,000 students who took the examination. My undergraduate education

at IIT Bombay has not only given me a certain set of skills but has also helped

me understand my fields of interest and my academic strengths and weaknesses. This understanding has made me

realize that though the applied physical sciences appeal to me, my strengths lie in applied mathematics and

in abstractions of reality. In particular, I am interested in the managerial aspects of industrial and technological

systems. This interest developed during my junior year seminar titled ‘Productivity Management’ in which I explored the

relationship between manufacturing strategy and productivity improvement. I continued further research in this area through my senior

year project titled ‘Decision Support System for Quality Control’ which sought to investigate various decision making mechanisms

in the quality function and provide corresponding computer support. The project also enabled me to appreciate the

interaction between manufacturing and the other functions of the firm especially information systems. The reading of certain

outstanding books during the course of my research such as Skinner’s ‘Manufacturing in the Corporate Strategy’, Deming’s

‘Out of the Crisis’ and Goldratt’s ‘The Goal’ finally convinced me to pursue a Ph.D. in operations

management and an academic career thereafter. My past work in the area of industrial engineering and operations

research was characterised by a dichotomy of approaches. The courses that I took in this area dealt

with various operational and tactical issues. The basic aim was to understand a specific problem, model the

problem appropriately and find an optimal or reasonably optimal solution using the techniques