Mechanical Engineering at Santa Barbara City College - Personal Statement Example

Getting totally fantasized over machines, my friend and one of my neighbours planned to design a flying machine when we were just in the seventh or eighth grade and we were getting glimpses of various physical theories for the first time in our schools. I still remember the way our backyard junked garage soon turned into a teeming workshop with brilliant ideas and we had spent the entire summer recess into the junkyard that year. My first step into the world of machines was thus initiated. With passing days, I learnt the intricate details about all the cars and their engines at our junkyard and soon one day I was able to start up the failed engine of my dad’s car when I discovered that actually, the problem was in the battery and not in the engine of the car.

Later in the school itself, I joined the Asian Engineering club where my ideas about machines, transistors and the basic functioning of light and sound gained more shape. A class by a veteran scientist and scholar at the engineering club at school on analysis of design and manufacturing provoked me to a great extent and boosted up my desperation for taking up the stream of mechanical engineering as my major. And, the most fascinating part of the entire discipline for me was the circuits, its design and analysis of those circuit designs and how it operates within many machines just bowled me out. I indulged myself in reading more and more science journals. At my upper-division level at school itself and before pioneering upon the subject through milestone institution of SBCC, I had attended a seminar on thermodynamics and many discussions and seminars on the subject of electricity and its modern circuit designs and analysis where I understood the profanity with which modern mechanical engineers and scientists are working at various levels to shape the modern system and enable the mankind to take the optimum benefit out of modern technologies. Volunteering at different science exhibitions and participating at various science fairs at the school level presenting circuits and various mechanical dynamics enabled me to fasten my seat belt more intact through the journey of the mechanical world. My involvement with aerodynamics was clear from my childhood days and active participation in three days’ workshop with aerodynamics helped and intrigued passion within me for taking plunges into the field of mechanical engineering.

Prompt 2

One of my unique talents or virtues which I believe is the talent of inquisitiveness.  This inquisitive pursuit enabled me to ponder upon various complex and unorganized dynamics and helped me to solve the complex circuit turning them into a simpler one. After attending classes at SBCC, I found that all my past experiences and scientific expeditions have enabled me to comprehend more intricately about various dynamics and subtleties associated with the faculty of Mechanical Engineering. I already had enough exposure as a member of the science club and after participating in various events related to machines, thermodynamics and aerodynamics. In science and the field of scientific research, the application and implementation of the theories which we come across every day pitted in black words against the white pages of our weighty books need space for practical understanding. These practical understandings of the theories find completion only when the first-hand implementation of those theories are experienced in practicality, which I have received in abundance throughout my career in schools at both junior and senior levels. The little theories of mechanics starting from the revolving of fans to the movement of a car engine, every little or big machines around has helped me to grow and learn more and more about the mechanical aspect of inventions and the space of machines in our lives. My personality has enhanced due to these exposures which I have received since my childhood regarding mechanical expeditions. It has facilitated me to boost up my confidence and increase my knowledge regarding scientific inventions and helped me to confront the complexities of life and solve them with ease and comfort.