Saking banyaknya teman-teman yang menanyakan contoh motivation letter buat daftar study di luar negeri, ini saya share motivation letter yang saya pakai untuk daftar di tiga negara, Jerman, Austria dan Taiwan. Sebenarnya sama saja, cuma ada perbedaan sedikit:
Saya harap ini bisa jadi referensi bagi teman-teman yang mau lanjut study master. Dan setelah saya membaca ulang, ada beberapa kalimat yang kurang pas di motivation letter saya ini, beberapa sudah saya ganti. Kalau ada yang kurang sesuai bisa diperbaiki atau komen dibawah. Dan yang paling penting, jujur sejujur jujurnya dalam menyampaikan pengalaman ataupun background kalian, termasuk rencana riset dan interest kalian.
Motivation letter tidak perlu panjang-panjang. Motivation letter yang bagus itu adalah yang fokus dan memperhatikan relevansi dengan program di kampus tujuan. Ada tiga hal utama yang perlu di sampaikan:
- Background: sampaikan dengan jujur background kalian
- Pengalaman: sampaikan pengalaman yang berhubungan dengan program yang dituju
- Relevansi dan rencana riset: relevansi disini sangat penting, lakukan riset terlebih dahulu mata kuliah apa saja yang ditawarkan dan kenapa mereka relevan dengan background kalian. Sebagai tambahan, jelaskan rencana riset kalian dan pastikan ini berhubungan dengan program dan riset-riset yang dilakukan profesor atau researcher disana.
LETTER
OF MOTIVATION
Since
I was in senior high school, I always want to be a master and
professional researcher in the field of technology. After graduated
from senior high school, I continued my study at Universitas
Trunojoyo Madura (UTM) majoring in Informatics Engineering. Then I
chose Computational and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as my
specialization because it was very interesting research and would become an
important topic in the future. So I took several courses such as Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Neural
Networks, and Image and Signal Processing.
My bachelor thesis titled “Fuzzy Logic Based Fire Fighting Robot Navigation using Ultrasonic Sensors”,
which was implemented in a mobile robot using three ultrasonic sensors placed in front, left, and right of the robot base. It was implemented using Sugeno inference system. Besides
studying, I was a member of the robotics research organization in my
college and selected as the leader in 2013. In the team, I developed several algorithms for
firefighting robot, legged robot, and humanoid robot.
I plan to
continue my study in master of Computer Science and Information
Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
(YunTech). After I have done some research, YunTech is one of
the most prestigious universities in Taiwan and provides some courses
related to my interest in the field of computer science such as
imaging and signal processing, biomedical informatics, and robotics, which of course fulfill my interest.
In addition, many research conducted by YunTech professors is published in top tier
international journals and proceedings. I plan to continue my research in robot perception especially in multimodal robot perception and I am very interested to join and contribute to the program at YunTech.
Best
regards
Emha.
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