SAMPLE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING - Freshman, Sophomore Current Address Permanent Address SMC 6236, 5032 Forbes

Avenue 18 Walnut Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15289-6236 Nashua, NH 03064-8105 ece@andrew.cmu.edu 412.889.4600 (Cell) 603.881.0011

FIRSTNAME M. LASTNAME
U.S. Citizen

OBJECTIVE EDUCATION

To obtain a summer internship utilizing my skills in electrical and computer engineering CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Overall GPA: 3.37/4.00 NASHUA HIGH SCHOOL Nashua, NH High School Diploma Overall GPA: 3.80/4.00 Rank: 5/196 May 2014

June 2010

RELEVANT COURSES SKILLS

Electrical and Computer Engineering* Mechanical Engineering and Physics Differential Equations Advanced Programming in Java * Calculus in Three Dimensions * Fall 2011 Programming Languages: Java Software: Microsoft Office Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista, MacOS 8/9/10, UNIX Spoken Languages: Spanish Robot, Electrical and Computer Engineering Spring 2011 Constructed smaller circuits using a protoboard to power a beeper, LED, clock, memory chip, and two motors Combined circuits to create a mini programmable robot Programmed the robot to successfully complete a test course Mousetrap Car, Mechanical Engineering and Physics Fall 2010 Designed and constructed a mousetrap car, in a team of two students, to compete in a competition where the car must travel at least 20 ft., but must stop before it travels 30 ft.

PROJECTS

WORK EXPERIENCE

OCONNOR IRRIGATION Nashua, NH Irrigation System Installation Workman Summer 2011 Assisted Senior Associate with plumbing, head installation, Ditch Witch, trench digging, wiring, and programming Developed schematics using proper measurements and gauges Applied and spread appropriate amounts of loam and grass seed post-installation

ACTIVITIES

Varsity Soccer, Carnegie Mellon University: August 2010 present Intramural Softball, Carnegie Mellon University: 2010 Intramural Doubles Table Tennis, Carnegie Mellon University: 2010 National Honor Society Secretary, Nashua High School: 2009 2010 Varsity Club President, Nashua High School Varsity Soccer Captain, Nashua High School Intramural Table Tennis Manager, Nashua High School: Spring 2009 Deans List, Carnegie Institute of Technology: Fall 2010 Nashua High School Mathematics Award Massachusetts Institute of Technology Book Award U.S. Marines Scholarship Whos Who Among American High School Students: 2008, 2009, 2010

HONORS

SAMPLE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING - Junior, Senior, MS Current Address Permanent Address SMC 3211, 5032 Forbes Avenue 79 Grand Street Pittsburgh, PA 15289-3211 Newport, NY 11355 sofiware@andrew.cmu.edu 412.626.4444 711.355.6677

SOFIE WARE
U.S. Citizen

OBJECTIVE EDUCATION
2012

A challenging position combining my skills in electrical and computer engineering and business CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Minor: Business Administration Overall GPA: 3.21/4.00

May May 2011

COMPUTER SKILLS WORK EXPERIENCE

Summer 2011

Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, MIPS Assembly, Verilog, HTML Application Software: MATLAB, Minitab, Maple GOLDMAN SACHS New York, NY Consolidated Equity Finance Analyst Assisted Senior Associate with monthly closing process Reconciled books and records to internal and external sources to function as a strong internal control Distributed Stockholders Equity projections to senior management Aided in posting transactions to the General Ledger IBM Gaithersburg, MD Intern, E-Business Solutions Summer 2010 Compiled a report on web mining tools to aid in restoring IBMs internal and external sites Installed and tested the Siebel E-business Transaction software on IBM Netfinity servers Aided the IBM e-business solutions team in researching current e-marketplaces and B2B/B2C internet companies

CARNEGIE MELLON Teaching Assistant, Economics Department Spring 2011 Instructed 35 students on the Principles of Economics Developed class structure and weekly lesson plans, and held weekly office hours Computing Skills Course Instructor, Computer Education August 2009 May 2011 Instructed required computer skills course for incoming freshmen Worked with and evaluated students to promote maximum computing utilization

PROJECTS

Road Sign Recognition, Digital Communication & Signal Processing System Design Spring 2010 Designed and implemented a road sign recognition algorithm on a TI C67 DSP Presented project at the Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research Symposium Recession of a Nation, Money and Banking Fall 2009 Composed a proposal delineating the current and future situations of Americas economy based on the trend analysis of various economic indicators as part of a four member team Analog Circuit Design and Analysis, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering Fall 2008 Participated in a series of hands-on labs to build and operate analog circuits Gained experience in circuit and component modeling, amplifiers, filters and signal detection and processing

LEADERSHIP

OM Spiritual Organization, President: April 2011 present, Secretary: 2008 2010

Office of the Dean of Student Affairs Planning Committee, Take Our Children to Work Day: August 2010 present Volunteer, Niteline Information Resource/Crisis Control Phone Line: August 2010 present Planning Committee, Mosaic Annual Conference on Womens Issues: 2008 2009

Society of Women Engineers, Chair, Annual Winter Semiformal: April 2009 March 2010

HONORS

Deans List, College of Engineering, Fall 2009 Sony Scholarship, 2008

SAMPLE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING RESUME- PhD

XUN (DIANE) CHANG

193 Devonshire Street, APT B12, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412.400.8585 xchang@cmu.edu OBJECTIVE To establish a career in electrical engineering that can utilize my knowledge in digital signal processing and digital communications into industry application and technology development SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS o 7+ years of research and engineering experience in signal processing and communications, specializing in recording channel design and wireless communications physical layer development o Intensive experience in both simulation and spin-stand waveform processing of magnetic recording and optical recording channels, familiar with laboratory measurement equipment and high speed circuit operations, strong programming (Matlab, C) and hardware (DSP) design skills o Thorough knowledge in the areas of communications theory, coding theory, linear algebra, estimation/detection/identification theory, information theory, and applied statistics o Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with a dedication to promoting effective teamwork EDUCATION CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering August 2012 Thesis: Advanced Detection for High Density Magnetic Recording Channel SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY Shanghai, China M.E. in Communication and Information Systems (Graduated with Honors) December 2007 Thesis: Study of Adaptive Turbo Coded Modulation for Future Wireless Communications B.E. in Communication Engineering July 2005 Thesis: Application of Reed-Solomn Codes in Frequency Hopping Radio Systems PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Carnegie Mellon University, Data Storage Systems Center Research Assistant 01/2008 Present Developed advanced detection schemes for future perpendicular recording channels using communication theory and signal processing technology, sponsored by Seagate Technology Proposed a novel jitter sensitive detection algorithm for transition noise dominant perpendicular recording channels, which provides lower Bit-Error-Rate (BER) than state-of-the-art signal-dependent noise cancellation schemes (Patent pending) Proposed a simulation-based algorithm to compute, with higher accuracy than existing methods, the achievable information rate of ISI channel in presence of signal dependent transition noise Developed an iterative algorithm to estimate the statistics of transition jitter from spin-stand read-back waveform Developed a complete simulation system for read channel (in C), comprising turbo/LDPC encoder/decoder, realistic perpendicular recording channel model, AGC/timing recovery, GPR target/equalizer design module, noise-whitening filter, SOVA/APP detector and post processing Investigated SNR sensitivity of capacity-achieving codes in both adaptive wireless transmissions and data storage systems Sony Corporation, Optical Recording Development Group, Tokyo, Japan Electronics Engineer (Intern) 09/2011 11/2011 Developed innovative detection schemes for future optical recording systems Evaluated performance of numerous advanced detection schemes, with spin-stand waveforms, on Blu-ray discs and near-field recording systems Proposed and implemented (in C++) a new detection algorithm for near-field recording channel, creating great interest at SONY

XUN (DIANE) CHANG

Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Teaching Intern Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design, graduate level Signals and Systems, undergraduate level Led labs and recitations involving digital audio and image processing Shanghai Jiaotong University, Wireless Communications Lab Research Assistant Developed adaptive transmission schemes for wireless communication systems Proposed a new variable rate coding scheme for frequency-hopping spread spectrum systems Implemented Reed-Solomn encoder and decoder with DSP processor TMS320C54X Trusted to write the proposal Adaptive Turbo-TCM for Future Multimedia Mobile Communications, approval by China-NSF committee 03/2005 12/2007 Spring 2011 Fall 2010 Led projects, and enhanced student DSP theory and hardware design skills withTMS320C67X

INVENTION X. Yang, X. Chang, R. Tse, E. M. Smith, Jitter-Sensitive Maximum-a-posteriori Sequence Detection, Patent pending, filed June, 2011 PUBLICATIONS (Late submission due to pending patent) X. Chang, R. Tse, Information rate computation for perpendicular recording channel with non-Gaussian transition noise, Submitted for publication X. Chang, R. Tse, Jitter sensitive detection in transition noise dominant perpendicular recording channel, To be submitted X. Chang, R. Tse, Channel identification based on spin-stand read back waveform, To be submitted X. Chang, T. Horigome, Advanced detection in near-field recording system, To be submitted X. Chang, H. Lee and W. Song, Design and implementation of error-correcting code in Frequency Hopping communication systems, Communications Technology, vol.9, 2007 X. Chang, H. Lee and W. Song, Application of RS code in frequency hopping systems and its implementation, Telecommunications Information, vol.3, 2007 COMPUTER SKILLS Languages: C/C++, Pascal, Assembly Software: Matlab/Simulink Hardware: DSP PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Reviewer for Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2011 International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2010 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), 2009 SELECTED HONORS Research Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008 Present Research Fellowship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2005 2007 SIEMENS FELLOWSHIP, SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY, CHINA, 2006