Person statement

Fan Meng

From a very young age, physics has always been a subject close to my heart.
Back when I was in primary school it was space that captured my imagination, but as
I’ve grown up the world of electronics has become the forerunner for my attention. It
is largely through electronics that the world has developed into something that would
have been unrecognisable less than 100 years ago. It is my belief that electronic
circuits are the primary reason that the number of patents filed each year has increased
dramatically over time, and so to be a part of their development would be an
incredibly rewarding situation.

It was at age 7 that I had my first memorable encounter with any form of
electronic circuit, when the radio that my Dad had bought me fell from a shelf and
broke, exposing the circuitry within. Though I had no idea what any of the
components were, they fascinated me. Their discovery led to years of prying the
backs off of any devices I could find just so I could stare at the contents, even going
so far as to open up a Gameboy I got one birthday before I actually attempted to play
any of the games it had come with.

In terms of serious experience with electronic systems, the thing that most
inspired me to pursue their study through to higher education was a 6-month series of
extra lessons in my first year of sixth form. The course was largely self-taught, with a
tutor on hand to present problems and provide advice where needed. It resulted in
producing a robot working on an IC556 pulse generator circuit that could navigate
through long corridors and guide itself away from walls and obstacles, as well as an
introduction to programming in Visual BASIC. This project, as well as cementing my
position on what to study at university, gave me a huge amount of experience in the
kind of work that my course involves, and as such I feel gives me a head-start on
getting to grips with the course details.
The main outlet for my passion for electronics has come about as a result of playing
the guitar. As stocking up on enough components to be able to carry out projects at
home would have been overly expensive, I instead turned to things that I already
owned. Key amongst these was a guitar pedal I had been neglecting. With the use of
little else but a screwdriver I completely dismantled the pedal, and then reassembled it
again with a neighbour’s soldering iron. To my continued amazement, it still works
even now.
Besides these real experiences, I feel that I have a lot of the necessary skills
required to succeed in an electronics degree course, most notably logical thinking
skills and data management ability.

Now, I am pursuing a bachelor's degree at Wenzheng College of Suzhou

University. This is a Chinese and foreign university. I have experienced the
introductory ceremony of electrical engineering. Opportunities The challenges of the
past three years have helped me establish my lifelong goals in electrical engineering.
Now, it has a solid knowledge base and extensive research experience. I apply for
your prestigious postgraduate course and provide me with advanced and cutting-edge
electrical engineering knowledge.