My Ambition For Success In The Ares Of Mechanical Engineering

Working with my father— a technician— as a helping hand in the furniture and sheet metal production house, motivated me to pursue an engineering field. As my study plan was fixed, immediately after school level, I joined Diploma in Automobile Engineering with a view to gain pragmatic knowledge in Thapathali Campus—the first established engineering institution in Nepal, where I was a full government scholarship recipient from the merit-based competition, and have topped all of the semesters in Tribhuvan University. Immediately after Diploma, I joined Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering in the same campus, again as a full government scholarship recipient, with a view to gain theoretical and design knowledge, and throughout each semester I received an extra scholarship, in a semester’s result basis. Belonging to the family with a physically challenged father and a mentally depressed mother, where the financial problem was the primary issue, fortunately, I was able to complete my education with full governmental scholarship due to my academic excellence. In spite of the family problem, this achievement has always been the driving force for me to gradually pursue higher education.

In my opinion, Engineers have the responsibility to solve the social problems technically. Though being second water richest country in the world; unfortunately, there used to be 16 hours of load shedding in a day, and many of the rural people were deprived of even the available 8 hours of electricity. Our concern was to research the turbine that can be easily fabricated by the local skills available and therefore can tap the electricity nearby their water resources. So, we did the graduate research project on the design of Propeller Turbine without guide vanes and using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) to find the optimum blade angle to estimate the performance of the system, where the experimental study was conducted to validate the result. Always having an acute passion to work on CAD tools and simulation, individually I researched and designed the turbine, and as a team, we completed the product from research to testing of the turbine. It was our honour to receive the funding from the NAST (Nepal Academy of Science and Technology), a governmental body for scientific research.

At the same time, I have worked as a Research Assistant under Assistant Professor Raj Kumar Chaulagain, and have done an internship at Automobile, Hydropower, and chosen electives on Aerodynamics and Avionics. Meanwhile, I believe my knowledge in various sectors will help us in the multidisciplinary approach to do research and solve the real-life engineering problem in LU, not as a Mechanical Engineer, but as a Researcher. Immediately after completion of my study, I was appointed as a Teaching Assistant and tutor in Thapathali Campus and Asian Engineering College. Here, I tutored the design related subjects like Engineering Drawing, Auto CAD, Machine Design, Turbo Machines, Basic Thermodynamics, Applied Thermodynamics, and Metrology. I also supervised the students in relative laboratories and report their performances to the Mechanical Department. Besides this, I am working as a full-time permanent governmental employee in the Ministry of Water Resources, Energy, and Irrigation, after ranking in the 1st position throughout the whole Nepalese competitor in the examination conducted by the Public Service Commission of 2017.

Here, I have the responsibility to look over Mechanical and Automobile works, supervise the technicians and prepare a report for the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, a governmental body for scientific research. Being appointed first as a Research Assistant, second as a Teaching Assistant, and third as a governmental employee, it not only enhanced my ability and recalled my past knowledge, but also developed my self-confidence to work in the similar position in future when I will be at LU. Working as a core committee member in Robotics Club, Volunteering as a vice president in AMESIN (Automobile and Mechanical Engineering Students’ Innovative Nexus), and participating as an exhibitor in various national exhibition programmes not only enhanced my task handling, management, and leadership skills, but also developed my capacity to become socially interactive with the diverse people from different cultural and academic background. Being an international student, I believe these skills will aid a great value while studying graduate program in your University with the multi-cultural background students from the world.

After the completion of Master’s and Ph. D. program at LU, I would be interested to be appointed as a faculty member in both LU and Tribhuvan University, where I have already spend 9 years, as a student, Research Assistant, and then as a teacher in this University. After my course of experience with the researchers of the developed country like America, I would like to share a part of my knowledge and experience as a mentor and a specialist in the governmental sectors of an underdeveloped country like Nepal. I expect that the acquired knowledge from LU will be fruitful in Research, Design, Energy, and Automobile Sectors of Nepal, where there is the scarce of core Research and Design Engineers in Nepal. Since, Masters in Design and Manufacturing, and System Design Engineering is a newly launched programme in Thapathali Campus and Pulchowk Campus (governmental Campus) of Nepal, and also a huge research centre on Automobile is going to establish in support of KOICA, I as the product of LU, will be the first core Design lecturer and researcher in Nepal. In this place, I see a lot of opportunities to handle governmental projects through which I can work as a bridge between your University and Nepalese University in education transformation and collaborative research projects.

The LU offers a platform with world-class study and research atmosphere, the best faculty, and excellent infrastructure to help attain my ambitions. While learning a senior design project on optimal thermal management of electronic devices here at Lamar University, I found Dr. Mesban Uddin, Dr. Jeffrey Raquet, and Dr. Peter Thomas Tkacik’s research profile on Linkedin, LU page, Google Scholar, and Research-gate having interest on CFD. It would be a great honour for me to learn from his fountain and erudition, and to participate in the extensive research projects, under his guidance and surveillance. My ambition for success with academic credentials, relevant experience, and passion for the research activity will make me one of your best students in this University. I will, therefore, be grateful if I get an opportunity to show my inner talent in an assistantship and graduate study. I will be glad if you could offer me any graduate assistantship. I want to assure you that I will do my best to enhance the high standards of the Lamar University through my hard work, strong dedication and honesty, individually as well as in a team.