LETTER OF MOTIVATION
Every time I go to a hospital, I experience how enormous the contribution of engineering in medicine and healthcare is. Even more noteworthy is the potential of what engineering can make possible- making our lives healthier and safer.
Biomedical Engineering has emerged as an independent discipline only recently. It offers a huge opportunity for research. It brings a new understanding and allows focusing on living systems so that contribution can be made to the improvement of healthcare and clinical applications. It excites me extremely when I consider how much I can do for human health and safety through working in this field.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND & TRAINING
I value academics as a powerful means to realize dreams. I persistently scored well in school and high school. I opted to pursue my passion in under-graduate studies and chose to study Biomedical Engineering, the details of which are clearly enumerated in my curriculum vitae.
I focused and worked hard with a clear objective as a result of which I was always among the top 5 students in my class, scoring a creditable 8.83 on a scale of 10. During the course I trained in hospitals where I observed the application of what I had learned in college about my subject.
It was in the third year of my undergraduate course that I discovered my inclination towards biomedical imaging. So I started looking for a project that would be the key to discovering this subject. I began working on it with the objective of gaining a novel approach to the development of adaptive filtering of low dosed CT Data.
After completing the course too, I did a voluntary internship and took this opportunity to do a hands-on training in Medical Electronics. I worked on a research-based p...
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...ity of Turku of special interest to me. As your website says, the University gives me the resources to acquire the knowledge and skills in different aspects of the field, ranging from molecular and cellular to tissue and clinical imaging. The curriculum lays stress on developing the practical skills of a student. I was also impressed by the vast scope of research that the university offers. Apart from this, it provides me with a unique opportunity for software development for image processing and analysis.
CONCLUSION
I am hopeful that you will grant me admission into your university so I can further pursue my dream of contributing to the development of this relationship between engineering and medicine. I propose to achieve the same by pursuing PhD and subsequently a post- doctorate after completion of MS in Biomedical Imaging in the University of Turku.
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