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- What is your CSE experience?
- engineer, graduate student
- About Me:
- I am studying Computational Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum. At the moment I am doing MSc thesis on contact stresses in human vertebrae.
- What are your interests?
- My primary interest is Computational Solid Mechanics.
- What are your skills?
- Mechanical Engineering
- Which CSE subdiscipline(s) would you like to network within?
- Computational Solid Mechanics
- Website:
- http://e-mubeen.blogspot.com
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If you don't have your heart set on a particular topic you need to start talking to professors and other Ph.D. students asap. You need to think of the Ph.D. application as any other employment application: the hiring side needs to like you and they need to be confident that you can do the job. For Ph.D. positions I would add that they are also looking for ability above and beyond. The output of a Ph.D. is a string of publications, and your advisor's name will be on those papers as well. They need to feel that you can make them look good. Without a personal connection you will not be able to build the kind of relationship you want with your advisor.
Think of it as an apprenticeship: you want to have the best master, one that you want to emulate, and the master wants the best student, one that can expand his/her knowledge.
The good news is that all of this can be learned, so go and start reading what folks are doing in your department, and then go find them and talk to them. Ask them what they do, how they do it, what they think are the problems, and where are the opportunities. Ask them how they see the problem in a bigger context, how important it is, where it can go. Ask them who else in the world is working on those problems and which companies are looking for solutions for those problems. Find something and someone that makes the whole process fun. You will need a nurturing environment to complete a Ph.D. and it needs to feel good. I have never met a person that didn't talk with passion about their Ph.D. days, so passion needs to be there both in you as well as your advisor.
Good luck.
I don't have any pointers to tensor texts. Why don't you post it on the forum, that is what it is for! And if I were you I would actually phrase the question more in terms of the issues you are having with the tensor math. Any of your professors should be able to point you to a text, but this network could get you in touch with folks that can explain the tensor.
Theo
It is hard for me to judge from this distance but the statement "It was my dream" bears much weight. When I was trying to figure out what to do after grad school and the options didn't appear obvious, I went back to first principals. And your dreams IMHO are your first principals. I followed that dream and looking back it was the best decision. At the time my reasoning was that I would feel like I would not have tried if I hadn't taken a change.
Another thought to consider. I have found that it is your fellow students that make or break the experience. Now, good universities tend to have more interesting people so the correlation that a good university equates a good experience is by association.
Good luck!
In next 5~6 months I will become able enough to finalize the area of my future academic career. I am very much interested in the failure of the Power Transmission machinery components and I am trying hard to get MS thesis in this area.
English was the medium of learning throughout my High School education & BS Mechanical Engineering, and now I am study in Germany in International degree course, here language is a problem because only this Comp-Eng department offers courses & research opportunities in English, other affiliated institutes (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering) have most of their research projects in German language. I haven't enough time to learn German, I am thinking on how to resolve this problem.
Welcome! Can you tell me a little more about your research and interests in CSM?
Theo