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Sample Personal Statement for Heat Supply and Air Conditioning and
Gas Engineering
I have constantly reflected upon the meaning of life and have
attempted at painstaking quests for an ultimate answer to this
metaphysical question. However, I believe that I have now uncovered a
truthful, albeit realistic, answer to this question. The answer is
derived from my father, who, as a professor at the Department of
Thermal Energy of xxxxxxx University, embodies the spirit of
conscientious and assiduous work as well as relentless and persist
research. Therefore, when I chose Heat Supply and Air Conditioning and
Gas Engineering as my undergraduate degree program and as my lifelong
dedication, it dawned on me that, for me, the value of life dwells not
only in contributing my professional knowledge to this society but
also in transforming at least a portion of this society with my
professional knowledge and dedicated efforts.
The bygone millennium is a century of incredible scientific and
technological progress in human history. While enjoying the
civilization created by technology, mankind was also experiencing
various forms of "retaliation" and punishment--- population explosion,
energy exhaustion, soil erosion, deterioration of water quality,
global warning and, in China, sandstorms. Nevertheless, as I delved
deeper into my undergraduate course work at xxxxxx University (one of
the most prestigious universities in China), my trepidation of all
those actual and potential disasters was significantly reduced. By
studying many courses closely related to human existence and human
development, I came to understand that man's efforts in environmental
science could somehow prevent the occurrence of those catastrophes, or
at least reduce their severity. Among numerous courses, Man and Heat
Surroundings, Energy-Saving Technology in Air Conditioning, VRV Air
Conditioning Systems Engineering, and Cold-Bearing Technics of Ice in
Air Conditioning especially fascinated me. They made me seriously
contemplate on the problem of increased energy exhaustion and the
ensuing pressure of environmental protection. I also realized that the
application of the technology incorporated in those subjects would
effectively satisfy people's desire to improve their living and
working conditions. My enthusiastic motivations, together with my
commitment and hard efforts devoted to course work, enabled me to
distinguish from my classmates, ranking me among the top 10 among 120
students of my grade. Most importantly, my undergraduate studies
helped me develop an aptitude to undertake intellectual endeavors
independently and actively and to acquire an effective methodology of
academic inquiry.
In 1999, I participated in the designing project of the air
conditioning system inside the Stone-Gate Station of the xxxx No. 2
Subway Network. This project provided me with an ideal opportunity to
apply my solid professional knowledge and my tremendous creative
potential. In that portion of work that I was in charge of, I inferred
the precise size of the windpipe by a pinpoint calculation of wind
volume. By employing different modes of pipelining and the
introduction of static pressure boxes and other auxiliary equipment, I
realized the maximum comfortability by utilizing limited space.
Upon graduation, I found employment with the Tsinghua TongFang Company
Ltd., the leading enterprise in air conditioning design in China.
During the past two years, I took part in three major projects and I
acted as director in one of them. As project manager of the
Automatic-Control System of Urban Construction Archives Building, I
was responsible for the initial negotiation with the client,
supervising the equipment installation, independently editing the
software of the control system, post-construction software
commissioning, the final project evaluation, and writing documents of
project completion. The successful execution of every step in the
project enabled me to further accumulate knowledge, to expand my
experience and to increase my confidence. At present, the stage II and
stage III projects of CCTV's Air-Conditioning System Design that I am
in charge of are under way. I experience an unprecedented sense of
achievement when I see the installed equipment start to operate
smoothly, various indexes meet the designing standards, and the level
of comfortability of the performing and broadcasting studios improve.
Nevertheless, the value of life that I have been pursuing is far from
being fulfilled. Energy and environment still remain the paramount
problems confronting mankind. The question of how to increase the
degree of comfortability by exploiting limited energy without
endangering the environment of man's existence still awaits proper
solution. With the development of architectural environment, alarming
increase of construction space and the corresponding increase in the
necessary heating and cooling volume, it becomes inevitable that the
already limited quantity of energy and natural resources will be
excessively exhausted. As a professional in thermal energy, I feel
that I have serious obligation and responsibility to perform.
Energy conservation in architectural design is a systematic project.
The primary task in the study of thermal energy is to provide
effective technical support and technological means to facilitate the
development and engineering application of highly-efficient
energy-saving equipment, to optimize specialized systems design, and
to ensure productive execution and operation of management. In this
regard, advanced countries in the West undoubtedly possess greater
advantages over China, whether in the degree of concern devoted to the
relevant issues or in the level of sophisticated technology. The
purpose of my planning to seek an advanced degree program in the
United States is to become equipped with necessary expertise to
renovate the relatively backward conventional equipment and systems by
applying the knowledge of new technology that I will acquire in my
future studies, to develop new facilities and new systems, and to
evaluate the effect of application measures by means of new
technology. I would like to concentrate my prospective degree programs
on the following areas: (1) how to design rationalized
air-conditioning system that yields greater degree of comfortability,
with special consideration of the architectural structure of a
building; (2) how to fulfill the energy-saving purpose by applying the
latest research findings in heat transmission and fluid mechanics to
the heat-exchange process in the development of air-conditioning
equipment or by frequency modification and wind volume modification;
(3) how to develop new energy sources with special attention to
environmental factors, without harming the atmosphere or increasing
pollution.
With the accumulation and expansion of my experience of life, I have
suddenly become aware that human existence itself is a fundamental
form of the meaning of life. I believe that what I have been doing and
what I will be involved in doing shall become a process whereby I will
achieve the sublimation of the value of my life. I feel proud that I
have chosen such a way of being serviceable to the society and to the
harmonious co-existence between man and the environment. |
