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Hi everyone I've been accepted for PhD in an engineering program in one of the top American universities. I'm an international student and look for some funding opportunities. The acceptance notification says that I have to consult with the department I'll attend directly asking about any assistantship or other means of funding. Actually I don't know how to write that email. Is there a formal way to do it ? I don't how to make it a positive support and the other way around. I hope you can give me some tips about this

So since no one replied I'm gonna put it here In the developing countries as well mine, there is impartial distribution of the resources and services among the society, due to the limited financial resources. Therefore, there is a demand for an extensive research work regarding the sustainable and balanced distribution of the social services, industrial products and possessed resources among the country and society. This is the kind of research I plan to pursue my PhD study with. I completed a double major in statistics and computer science in my undergraduate study. This degree has provided a through exposure to various specialties in mathematics, statistics and computer science. In addition, I read a vast array of work myself on linear programming, quality control and supply chain management. This substantial amount of reading was an eye-opener to industrial engineering (IE). I became fascinated with the IE as a way of representing, analyzing, predicting and optimizing the systems around us. My education along with the independent readings solidified my interest in IE and intensified my desire to pursue my study through in that discipline. I then completed my master in industrial and systems engineering as a research assistant. The choice of my study as well as the chosen subjects during my master was driven by my desire to learn, in theory and in practice, as much as I can about combining curiosity and knowledge into perceptible product. During my education years, I was actively conducting research in different fields, e.g. simulation and queuing models, quality control, inventory control and production planning. I was distinguished in the quality and the quantity of my delivered research. I have the ability to make critical analysis, to assess fairly different ideas and to think out of the box while tackling any problem. Likewise, I have the ability to take initiatives, work independently, and participate in team work as a cooperative member or as a leader. I have learned how to overcome the challenges and difficulties and pick myself back up along the way. For example, I remember that I proposed my senior project problem to the project coordinator myself. The project objective was to reduce the patients waiting time at emergency department of Khartoum Teaching Hospital using the queuing theory and simulation. I had to collect the data throughout the day for three consecutive months from the hospital. I attained that without affecting the quality of both my education and class attendance and the project itself. Furthermore, during my master’s study, I found an encouraging research environment at my graduate school, in addition to the outstanding caliber of the researchers I privileged to work with. That is resulted in two journal publications, three journal papers under revision and two presented conference papers. I am proud of my master thesis, because I have initiated the usage of multi-objective optimization in formulating and solving the process targeting problems. I also was involved in a project conducted by the university to set the locations of base station for cellular phones. Currently after graduating, I am still working on a research on the quality control of serial production systems. I intend to further my doctorate study and undertake research that uses and applies the tools and potentials of operation research and statistics in improving the design and operation of complex and interdisciplinary systems, e.g. Healthcare engineering and management, transportation and logistics and regional and urban planning. The research of such systems is developing as true interdisciplinary fields of integrated methods and knowledge from many perspectives, such as operation research, statistics, economics, and computer science with social, communication, and policy research. Finally, these methods and knowledge are combined into conceptual frameworks. Working in collaboration with professionals and decision makers, as an industrial engineer, I can develop data-driven tools and methodologies that allow efficient, safe and cost effective service delivery with improved outcomes while leveraging appropriate informatics technologies. I am expecting to be engaged in knowledge and hypothesis generation, predictive modeling, optimization, decision sciences and robust device design. That engagement can be achieved by developing good models, efficient optimization algorithms and comprehensive simulation. The driving force behind my desire to further my doctorate study at xxx is to obtain the broader skills, background and knowledge necessary to be an effective professional and an influential person who makes a significant impact and contribution to my family, society, country and even the entire world. In the long term I plan to be a distinct researcher and university instructor in my country to benefit both people and society. I am not claiming that I will solve to some global problems, yet I will do my role to benefit others, and then be an idol for young people to play their own role in the society too. I consider xxx the ideal platform to lunch my career path, regarding its consistently rating among the top institutions in the world for the quality and breadth of its research enterprise, for the scholarly distinction of its faculty, and for the excellence of its PhD program. I believe this statement presents to you a well-rounded young professional, equipped with necessary knowledge, research skill and working experience accompanying with my ambitions and readiness, to succeed in IE as a profession. Thank you for considering my application.

Hi forum, I just finished my sop for phd in industrial engineering. I hope there are some people willing to evaluate it and give me some advise. Please PM me ASAP thanks in advance

ridofme I appreciate your response. actually I didn't proposed those project because of interest/fascination I had when I started reading about the IE stuff but the idea of these projects based on the courses I took after that which I mentioned. the queuing models are stochastic processes and the land use planning problem is formulated and optimized using the operation research techniques, epecially linear programming ones.

Thank you ay761 for the response. actually I'm uncertain about this too if this medicine thing is a good thing or not. I thought it shows how I've developed my current passion. I'll try to cut it off

Hi there. I'm applying to PhD in industrial engineering and decided to start my SoP with a story that shows how I started my interest in industrial engineering. I think it's too long and weak. Therefore I would appreciate if you can review that for me. in the meanwhile I'll be writing the remaining parts about my master degree, conducted research and future plans. I have always had a keen desire to be an influential person with a significant impact and contribution to my family, society, country and even the entire world. Throughout my high school years I have learnt and enjoyed the application of logical scientific thinking and knowledge of natural laws in analyses and solving problems. Evoking that in my narrow-mindedness as a kid, I thought being a doctor whose cures and heals others’ pain is the best impact I would do. After completing my high school in Saudi Arabia and due to the regulations there, I had to pursue my undergraduate study at my home country, Sudan. Yet again due to the Sudanese regulation, since I have a non-Sudanese high school certificate they crossed credit my certificate from 99% to 88% only. Accordingly, I could not attend the school of medicine at University of Khartoum, instead I admitted in the Faculty of Mathematical Science (FMS) at the same university. Although I took dual major in statistics and computer science, but I thought that I’m going to have an ordinary future with no distinction as I planned beforehand. That frustration even affected my grades in the first couple of years at FMS. When matured I broadened my view to the future and realized that I still can achieve my dream and be the person I wanted to be without being a doctor. I read vest array of work in computer programming, database system, applied probability and others. Afterward I started fascinated with the industrial engineering and the as a way of representing, analyzing, predicting and optimizing the systems around us. I had a substantial amount of reading in linear programming, operations management, production planning and scheduling, quality control and supply chain management. I used to formulate the linear programming problem without even get to know how to solve such problems. Then I took courses in operation research, reliability theory and stochastic process that solidified my interest in industrial engineering and intensified my desire to pursue my study through in that disciplinary. Moreover, FMS do not offer senior project on that area, nevertheless I came up with my own proposal for two projects in simulation and queuing model and on land use and planning.