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13 How do you know this Univ.?
/ O3 f3 ?5 s D# w1 `) p* UI started to know about the University of Florida from my department chair. When he leaned that I was planning to go abroad and further my study in Industrial Engineering, he was glad and encouraged me to do so. We talked a little bit and agreed that promoting research and application in industrial nettle bit and agreed that promoting research and application in industrial engineering in china is now necessary and will soon prove very fruitful, while the development of this discipline in china is far from satisfactory. You see, Industrial Engineering became a formal area of study in china only in 199$ ^ }0 ?% H- n% G$ L* D" q5 U
3, only 6 years ago. Xian Jiaotong University is the first University in this county that was approved by the national education committee to offer degree programs in industrial engineering. And I am going to be a graduate of the second class, I mean the big class, you see enrolled in 1994.The problem is that you can hardly find any Ph.D program in industrial engineering in this country. 7 T+ D6 j, G; y3 q4 y" t# q
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I will specialize in Production Management and finish my Ph.D study in Industrial engineering in the University of Florida in about 4 years. Then I will come back to China and first get married with my girlfriend whom I have known for more than 11 years. At the same time I will find a managerial position in a big state owned company or joint venture. My desired place of working is Shanghai. My long-range objective is to be an entrepreneur and possess
3 a: J$ z+ H( i2 \& S6 C( Z7 `my own business.
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5 m( p, n$ X# q) i) I! e15 Give me three reasons that you will come back to China?
( j( M+ x: W; m* I: C. J$ [First of all, I have to come back and get married with my girlfriend. We have known each other for 11 year since we were very young. You see: we wherein the same class in junior high school. She is now a graduate student in Northwest University in xian. She probably will go on and pursue her Ph.D in the same school. Her major is Physics, specializing in ultra fast Phenomenon, or something. Secondly, as you can see, I applied directly for a ph.D program instead of M.S. program after my undergraduate study. As far as I know, and properly as you know, Ph.D holders in the States are not so easy to find good jobs as Ms Holders even in the same discipline. If I intended to find a job in the states, I would not have applied for Ph.D. but M.s.. On the other hand, it will be very easy for me to find a good job in any of the big cities in china with my Ph.D in Industrial Engineering got in the United States. Third, my career objective determines that it is a better choice for me to come back to China than staying in the states. You see my long range objective is to become an entrepreneur and own my business. And it would be very difficult for me to realize it should I choose to stay in the states, for the United States is a highly developed county, and almost everything is already there. You see, as a country develops, the space for people to develop shrinks relatively. It is not realistic for me to find my own space as a successful entrepreneur between all these big, developed and high-tech companies Useful entrepreneur between all these big, developed and high-tech companies in the states. I mean I can start, but can hardly succeed. On the contrary, if I come back to china, I have much better chances. Since china is underdeveloped, it leaves much more space for people, especially for industrial engineers to develop. As you can see, waste, low efficiency, high cost, poor quality is almost very where, though things are changing everyday. With my Ph.D got in the states and my social relationship, It is much easier for me to start my own enterprise, or buy one from the government when they decide to privatize some of the medium-sized and small state owned enterprises.
8 M4 l1 ?, K+ w0 V16 Can you explain why 90% Chinese students didn't come back?
! Z7 F/ ?2 B9 K! i7 U; RI think that is partly because they were afraid that they would not be treated fairly after they come back. As a matter of fact, that used to be the reality. But things has been changing greatly during the recent years and much more students are coming back are coming back after they have finished their study. I also think this has something to do with the majors. As for students majoring in science, they may like the better equipment, environment an
; r# _4 n4 t) R/ }6 H! B4 d; l# }* Qd salary in the states because they are afraid that if they are back some of their research can not go on as a result of poor facility and shortage of funding. But as for my major, it will be very easy for me to find a good job in any of the big cities in china with my Ph.D in Industrial Engineering got in any of the big cities in china with my Ph.D in Industrial Engineering got in the United States. You see, it is a practical major. My career objective also determines that it is a better choice for me to come back to China than staying in the states. You see my long range objective is to become an entrepreneur and own my business. And it would be very difficult for me to realize it should I choose to stay in the states, for the United States is a highly developed county, and almost everything is already there. You see, as a country develops, the space for people to develop shrinks relatively. It is not realistic for me to find my own space as a successful entrepreneur between all these big, developed and high-tech companies in the states. I mean I can start, but can hardly succeed. On the contrary, if I come back to china,
7 I! U0 i& h0 f8 p4 s4 p4 ^) ]I have much better chances. Since china is underdeveloped, it leaves much more space for people, especially for industrial engineers to develop. As you can see, waste, low efficiency, high cost, poor quality is almost everywhere, though things are changing everyday. With my Ph.D got in the states and my social relationship, It is much easier for me to start my own enterprise, or buy one from the government when they decide to privatize some of the medium-sized and small state owned enterprises. 0 k6 O$ D W- d, [3 z. H) P
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17) Why do you choose this Univ.?
- N; B! ]9 I! i o$ m6 Y4 I First of all, the Industrial Engineering program of the university of Florida First of all, the Industrial Engineering program of the university of Florida is among the top a few Ph.D programs in industrial engineering in the states, and my proposed advisor's research, production management and operations research, in which I will work and study, is a national science foundation funded project. Both my department chair and several foreign friends suggested me this school. And also I like the weather of Florida, not as windy and sandy as Beijing, and not as hot and try as xi'an. That is what one of my American friends told me. Another reason is that I got the admission and offer from the university of Florida very early- in early March. And I could not decline this admission after I had accepted it.
