algorerhythm

I am indeed a US Citizen. I appreciate your help!

Hi all, I recently graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in DSP from a top 100 engineering school and am now looking to get my MSEE in signal & image processing. My GPA wasn't very high (3.28), but the majority of my lower grades occurred during my freshman/sophomore year (my senior year GPA was a 3.6). I did a 5-year program with 3 different 6-month co-ops (paid internships) at notable companies throughout my college experience. My senior design project was awarded 2nd place in the College of Engineering Competition (out of roughly 140 teams). The university took interest in our project and is sponsoring 3-4 patents on our design, which are currently pending. My contributions to the design were crucial, but dealt mainly with systems, controls, and robotics rather than DSP. I have not taken the GRE and have not gotten my recommendations together yet. I think I should have some fairly solid letters from some notable professors of mine. I know my GPA is not very competitive, but I'm wondering if my senior design project will help to counteract it. I really have no idea which tier of grad schools I should be looking into. Please help! Thanks!