Electrical Engineering

To the Admissions Committee: I lead a motor-drives team and supervised the applicant, an embedded engineer, for three years. I support their MS in Electrical Engineering application.

The applicant owns our motor-control firmware and cut audible-noise complaints in half with a field-oriented-control loop. But when a drive kept failing thermally, they could log the fault perfectly and not say whether the cause was their control loop or the converter topology beneath it — the hardware layer their training never reached. They want to own that full stack, which is the right reason for this degree.

I recommend them strongly.

To the Admissions Committee: I supervised the applicant's research on distribution-grid voltage regulation. I recommend them for your MS in Electrical Engineering.

The applicant modeled a feeder with high rooftop-solar penetration and, rather than trusting the simulation, validated it against field data that revealed their inverter model was optimistic. They diagnosed the discrepancy instead of tuning it away — the discipline power-electronics research requires.

They build careful models, question their own results, and document thoroughly. I endorse them highly.