general introduction

　　i am a third year mastor major in automation at shanghai jiao tong university, p. r. china. with tremendous interest in industrial engineering, i am writing to apply for acceptance into your ph.d. graduate program.

　　education background

　　in 1995, i entered the nanjing university of science & technology (nust) -- widely considered one of the china’s best engineering schools. during the following undergraduate study, my academic records kept distinguished among the whole department. i was granted first class prize every semester,in 1999, i got the privilege to enter the graduate program waived of the admission test.

　　at the period of my graduate study, my overall gpa(3.77/4.0) ranked top 5% in the department. in the second semester, i became teacher assistant that is given to talented and matured students only. this year, i won the acer scholarship as the one and only candidate in my department, which is the ultimate accolade for distinguished students endowed by my university. presently, i am preparing my graduation thesis and trying for the honor of excellent graduation thesis.

　　research experience and academic activity

　　when a sophomore, i joined the association of ai enthusiast and began to narrow down my interest for my future research. with the tool of opengl and matlab, i designed a simulation program for transportation scheduling system. it is now widely used by different research groups in nust. i assumed and fulfilled a sewage analysis & dispose project for nanjing sewage treatment plant. this was my first practice to convert a laboratory idea to a commercial product.

　　in retrospect, i find myself standing on a solid basis in both theory and experience, which has prepared me for the ph.d. program. my future research interests include: network scheduling problem, heuristic algorithm research (especially in ga and neural network), supply chain network research, hybrid system performance analysis with petri nets and data mining.

　　范文二：

　　from a moddle class family, i was born in hsin ying, tainan on october 10th, 1965. my father is a civil official at tainan city government. my mother is a house wife good at cooking. although i am the only child of my parents, i am by no mans a spoiled one. on the contrary, i have been expected to be a successful man with advanced education. i study hard at school. besides texts knowledge, journalism is my favorite; whenever reading, my heart is filled with great joy and interesting.

　　“being good is must; successful, however, is plus.” father adopts the idea of his father. especially in military service, i realized it more precisely. people said: military service makes a boy to man, i agree that.

　　?i realized the importance of english and began to study diligently when i was eighteen. i did not start in my early age, but i hope that i could pass the test of general english proficiency test. and this is my best wish at the moment.

　　范文三：

　　good morning, dear professors:

　　it’s my honor to introduce myself. my name is xxx, i am fromxxcountyxxprovince, december xxxx i was born in a poor family, and my parents are farmers, i love and respect them very much. we were delight with my becoming a fresh man in september 1997. luckily, i was permitted to be a graduate student after 4 years colorful life on campus. i received my bachelor degreeXX inxx institute of science and technology, then a master degreeXX inxx university of science and technology. for those 7 years my major was die design. before i received my master degree, i had done the subject of xxxxxxxxxxx. for the past 3 years, i have been inxxxxxxcollege, where i have been and still am a teacher. i teach students machine design etc. i have published more than 10 first-author papers.

　　that’s all, thanks!