中南大学最好的专业哥伦比亚大学--环境工程-个人陈述范例

第一篇是哥伦比亚的个人陈述。

The tap water I drank for two years in England holds a hint of chlorine,

nevertheless, drinkable; its Swiss counterpart, crystal-clear and tastes divine. I

have inhaled voraciously the air in Pullman, Washington, along with its scent of

ripening wheat and temperate forests. I have swum into the Mediterranean

Sea straight from the Barcelonata beach ten minutes away from downtown

Barcelona. All the while travelling and studying aboard, I think about my home,

China, about how none of these things can be done there. And the thought

pains me.

Becoming an Environmental Engineer is not a mere whim resulted from my

concerns for China’s pollution –

it became a determination, when I spent a

fruitful summer at Washington State University as a research student in

Laboratory for Atmospheric Research. Under the guidance of Professor

Serena Chung, Professor Brian Lamb and a doctoral student Rodrigo

Gonzalez-Abraham, I conducted an analysis on the effect of wildfire

atmospheric emissions on regional air quality, using the current and future

year simulations output by the WRF- SMOKE-CMAQ modeling framework. I

discovered that wildfires account mainly for the particulate matters in the air,

and that the increase in the precipitation in the future is likely to be responsible

for a 60%-

80% decrease in particulate matter’s concentrations. Not only have I

improved my programming skill, data processing skill and the ability to

approach a task through my project, but also gained knowledge in the field of

air monitoring and control through a series of “crash courses” equivalent to

classes that an Environmental Engineering undergraduate would take. I

become enticed by the complexity and the interdisciplinarity of environmental

modeling, and reaffirmed Environmental Engineering as my career path. At the

time when several faculty members from the department were leaving for

Tianjin, China for a project, and joked about the possibility of their accurate

measuringequipments malfunctioning when operating in the megacity plagued

by pollution, my heart sank, and instantly I knew that my best career option is

to help converting the terrible situation.

As a Physics major and a Math minor, I make more efforts than a summer

research to edge my way into Environmental Engineering. For senior year, I

am taking a course entitled Water Quality and another one on Environmental

Systems at Swarthmore College. In the former, I will work on a group project

that aims to improve the pollution model of a local creek, developed by

Professor AuthurMcGarity using Storm Water Management Model. If my

schedule allows, the summer after my graduation will include taking basic

engineering summer courses in preparation for graduate school. In addition, I