Ravi Kiran

statement of purpose as a senior electronics & communications engineering (ece) student at sr engineering college, i am receiving a particularly wellrounded education in engineering with the support of a good teaching faculty and laboratory facilities. from the beginning of my undergraduate studies, i took special interest in the field of communication and began to put extra work in those courses related to communication which were included in my course curricula. the motivation for me to have special interest in communication cources along with my regular ece courses is that there is a strong demand for interdisciplinary educated engineers and scientists in the telecommunication , mobile communication, electronics and general industry, and that very often competencies from both fields are needed at the same time. though i didn’t scored good grades in subjects like ‘satellite communication’, ‘mobile communication & ‘microprocessors & interfacing’. i still have good knowledge in those subjects.i have done projects on wireless communication (bluetooth,wi-fi,wi-max) in my 5th sem electronics corporation of india limited, which is one of the top 5 electrical unit in india. in dis industry every thing is automated. in my 7th sem i have done a project on role of optical fibers in the field of communication at surana telicom private limited. put in extra effort for my current courses ‘computer networks’ and ‘operating systems’ along with my regular ece courses. so i plan to take up a graduate program in electrical engineering with electives in computer courses at your university. in preparation for this work, i have developed a strong background in computers in addition to my coursework in electronics & communication engineering. given the current demand for increased computing capacity and reliable networks, this background should prove beneficial. for example, today most enterprise businesses involve explosive transaction environments and addressing of a variety of applications, database, web serving, and utility services. meeting the needs of this critical operating environment requires a server with mainframe credentials like scalability for increased parallel computing and also requires hardware switches capable of connecting several machines over high speed networks for quick data serving.

while recent advances in computer hardware alone promise potential tenfold increases in speed, truly significant jumps in computing power (speedups of, say, a thousand-fold) will require changes in the way that massive computer networks access and share information and the optical technologies connecting them. this is a field that has opened up numerous possibilities and posed unprecedented challenges to the enthusiastic researcher. the latest breakthrough at the bandwidth challenge at supercomputing '06 held in tampa, florida being a datadirect networks' s2a9550 capable of delivering 32.5 gb/s with 1.46 pb to indiana university’s big red supercomputer. my work in undergraduate studies should prove useful for both the study of existing technologies and the development of new ones specifically designed for the parallel architecture of tomorrow’s supercomputers and high speed networks. to strengthen my background i undertook a research project on analysis and testing of twin channel radio during my undergraduate studies. the project primarily focuses on point-to-point communication in full duplex mode. i acquired good practical knowledge about the various communication systems and their applications in both civilian and military purposes. i am also currently working on my final semester project titled “real time operating system using embedded c++” intended for various embedded applications. this project gives me an insight of the basic architecture, programming and applications of the 8051 microcontroller, which is the microcontroller we have incorporated in our design. i also presented a paper titled ‘carbon nanotubes’ which is one of the emerging technologies that has unprecedented applications in every field of engineering. my career goal is to become a computer systems architect. after completing my graduate and post-graduate work, i wish to focus on developing technologies for the emerging markets and addressing the challenges of making computing more accessible and usable for people and businesses around the globe. i am confident that my research efforts will fructify into meaningful contributions. i would be pleased to join the distinguished class enrolling at your university in fall 2007. the departmental web site revealed a very

strong faculty involved in extensive research in the area of ‘networking’ and ‘computers and digital systems’. this has strengthened my resolve to study at the umkc. i understand the kind of commitment, dedication and perseverance a demanding graduate program calls for and i would like to assure that i am setting on the path with complete preparedness for the task up ahead. overall, i feel that university of missouri at kansas city can help me achieve my goals by preparing me to fulfill my obligation to myself, to society, and to my profession.