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This can be of help to potential PhD applicants.

You will never know until you try. No one can accurately predict your chances. Do well in your tests. Read this thread and also use useful resources in order to submit a good application. Apply early. You will be fine. Cheers.

Alobay:
I have been following this thread for a while, kindly help me please. I have a CGPA of 3.01/5 for my bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and I also have weighted average of 60B+ for my masters degree in Chemical Engineering too. I want to do PhD in Chemical Engineering in US or Canada with full scholarship or funding and I am intending to sit for GRE and TOEFL to obtain high scores. Will I get admission with full funding please in US or Canada if I get high scores in GRE and TOEFL. Kindly note that I am intending to send my transcripts to WES for evaluation but I need to know my fate first before spending any money. I will be very grateful for your candid advice

Oops sorry about that. He wanted me to succeed and was always happy to write a recommendation for me. My Nigerian lecturers needed to be reminded with recharge card. Lol

Glocal1:
You owe him a lot. 3 out of 4 filled my form after the deadline.

Yes you have to mail the school. That's your best source of authentic information.

kacey007:
Anyone??

bigfrancis21, time2smile, Quoran, sheke01

It wasn't so easy to be honest. I had like five recommenders from my UG and PG. My masters degree supervisor was fond of me so he gladly filled them for me.He filled all the ten for me without complaining.

Glocal1:
Congrats bro, wish you greater success in your endeavors. How did you get recommenders for these Schools?

Religion is really the opium of the people. I'm just curious, if Moh'd Salah was ill and he really needed to take his medications, he won't eat? His total fast becomes invalid? Smh

Transcript evaluation?You can use WES. Their evaluation is fair.
https://www.wes.org/evaluations-and-fees/

Bukyolami:
good day everyone, how much does to evaluate ones result. can anyone suggest any accredited company in the usa. thanks God bless

I see them on websites like researchgate, Quora, LinkedIn etc. I follow research in my field so I tend to come across such information

oluwaniyi66:
please where do you see all these open positions?

VO: Good morning. Please pass me your passport and 1-20.
Me: Good morning
VO: I can see that you're going to Texas A and M University, College Station for a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering.
ME:Yes PhD Mechanical Engineering
VO:Interesting. Tell me about your past academic experiences
Me:I had my first degree at the University of Benin and had my masters at UCL.
VO: Where did you do your masters degree?
Me:I did my masters at UCL.
VO: London?
Me:Yes
VO: What have you been doing since then?
Me:I work for a XYZ .....
VO: (cut in).... You have a UK work visa ?
Me:Yes
VO: Tell me about your research
Me:My research is about qwertyuioplkjhgfdssa (Details are boring. You won't need it lol)
VO: Who's your supervisor?
Me: Professor XYZ
VO: How many schools did you apply to?
Me: 10
VO: Name them.
Me: TAMU,Stanford, UCLA,TTU,MTU,UOA,UVA,RPI, OSU and WSU

VO: Your visa has been approved. Read this and do what's right to avoid been denied entry to the USA. Have a nice day.
Me: Thank you

Thanks to everyone on this thread.

Visa approved! I will share my transcripts later today.

Congrats lady reDazey

Lol. Trump won't care though.

That's none of our business. They should focus on what they were elected to do.

Indians are also denied visas as well. They are also scrutinized well. I don't know the forum you checked but many of them don't get their F1 visas too. The Indians and the Chinese have migration intent and it is also well known to the visa officers. From what I have noticed from different visa transcripts, nothing is cast in stone concerning certain things. Everything is at the discretion of the VO. Having a relative in the USA could hamper or better one's chances.

kikky91:
Yea it's very clear... I dnt really knw why but wen I went online to check btw India transcript and ours..menhhh out of 10transcript they give 7-8 and wen it come to Nigeria it different..... As what I observed is that the vo will want to scrutinize every f1 student..... That is my own little observation. In Nigeria embassy it difficult for applicant to say the have a relative living there and for this case he even has one that is there and currently working...which is against the the process.... Dunno but it seems Nigeria really has bad record wen it gets to immigration

For a moment, I thought it was Victor Moses ! Get well soon, Moses Simon.

Yeah. Some can barely get an appointment date yet some others have been interviewed multiple times in a short while. I think that's what they are trying to fix.

LagosismyHome:
Quota is some thing different

There is a "rumor" because I don't know if it confirmed.

For F1 who have been recently denied / refused visa , when you try to reschedule it blocks you and say no appointment is available. So technically not allowing anyone who has been refused to apply within 6 months

Are You sure about this ? A woman who's a former visa officer on Quora (Kathryn Berck) said there's nothing like Quota for student visas. She said it does exist for visa categories like H1-B.

Ijebuboy525:
Slot for Nigeria students in US has been reduced drastically

You pay to collect certificate ? That's rubbish.

PhD student - Immersion cooling of microelectronic devices- Université de Sherbrooke

We are looking for creative, enthusiastic, self-motivated, and qualified PhD students to work on reliability of microelectronic packaging.The goal of this project is to develop a new type of highly efficient cooling technology for advanced electronic devices. This cooling technology is based on immersing the semiconductor device into a dielectric liquid, to benefit from
its vaporization phase change to carry heat away from the device efficiently(pool boiling). This approach has been studied before, in relatively simple implementations, which clearly demonstrates its impressive thermal performances. However, immersion cooling has not yet reached its full commercial potential because of two technological issues. The first issue is the so-called boiling crisis, a complex phenomenon involving the flux of heat, liquid and vapor which limits the thermal performances and create stability issues. The second issue is the reliability risk created by immersing electronic components which have not been designed for this purpose, and which might be subjected to new failure mechanisms because of immersion.


--Responsibilities and Duties-

PhD student will analyze immersion cooling technology compatible with industry requirements(reliability, thermal performance, integration, cost). Optimize using appropriate IC power control algorithms.

This research will be conducted in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, with the participation of two industrial partners. The Université de Sherbrooke is a Canadian leader in terms of industrial collaborations, where students get to experience both academic and industrial research environments.

--Qualifications and Skills—

• Master degree in Electrical/Mechanical engineering.
• Familiar with microelectronics reliability and microelectronic failure
analysis.
• Strong computer programming.
• Good communication skill and team work

Having this additional skill is an advantage:
• Experience in packaging microelectronics

Interested applicants are required to submit 1) a cover letter 2) curriculum vitae and 3) a list of three references with contact information including mailing address, phone number or e-mail address.

jf.morissette@usherbrooke.ca

PhD Student Position, Civil and Environmental Engineering

I am looking for two PhD students in the area of CFD using OpenFoam starting August of 2018 or at most January 2019. The applications are for two-phase flows (air-water interaction in very high-speed flows) and in the area of hydraulic
structures (e.g., water turbines, contaminant intrusion, flows in vertical shafts, etc). Experience with experimental work is a plus.

We are interested in highly motivated and academically talented graduate students from Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering or other engineering areas.

Please send your CV to Dr. Arturo Leon at artuleon@gmail.com
Website: http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~aleon3/index.html

Both exams are written all through the year.

For the GRE, you can check dates on the official GRE website. Simply register on the ETS website , search for a city and then you can find the test dates available. Alternatively, you can check mafit 's website. They usually list the available test dates.

The same thing applies to IELTS. Check the British council's website. The available test dates can be seen there.

BiggyB242:
Please house, where is the next GRE and IELTS examination date. So I know how to prepare myself.

This will help you, pricelessjosy

Quoran:
That's something positive. For the Zoom/Skype interview, check the Professor's recent research papers and his or her profile on either his/her past school's website or Linkedlin. He or she won't ask anything extremely technical. Just check out the methods and research tools he has used to conduct research. He or she will most likely be asking you questions to see if you are a conversant with all you will need to work with him/her. You should be fine. Put in your best in the interview as he/she will also be interviewing others and trying to pick the very best. He or she will be keen to find out if you're a good fit for his/her research group.
Possible questions

1) Introduce yourself. (You should speak more of your academic and related work experiences. Don't start singing about which school you attended and why you choose that school. Professors don't have time for that. Go straight to the point.)
2) What are your research experiences? (Talk about your lab experiences , thesis etc. Even your practicals in university counts. Study them and make out something from it.
3) Have you done any work on _______ ? ( He is already asking you something on his research interest. Go through his or her recent papers. Check the keywords , Study the abstract and conclusion. Then look at the methodology briefly. You should be fine.
4) Check out specific methods. It is very important.
5) He will ask questions based on your SOP and CV as I presume he already has your application. Study what you have written there.
6) Any questions? Ask questions at the end of the interview. For example, Ask him or her , the projects he would soon start to work on.Don't jump the gun and ask about funding. Ask about the direction of his research and so on.

From the e-mail, he is likely an assistant Professor , who just got a faculty position. Sometimes they are more difficult to please as they are just starting and they need to recruit the best to have a good start. I assume if he was an associate or full time Professor, he will most likely have moved his students from his former school or continue to supervisor them by proxy. Reply him ASAP and pick a time slot for the interview. I hope this helps. Cheers.
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Loooool He couldn't even respect the Ramadan season and cut off the lies.

This is good but how come twitter still allows pornographic accounts on its platform ? They should automatically block such accounts also.

LOL They should not waste their time. Ambode has done enough to win a second term in office.

Interesting. By the time you finish this inspection and procedure, the seller would have become weary of you. Good tips though.

Good stuff! #COYG

We can always agree to disagree. You really don't need insults to buttress your point, folks.

This is the first time I'm hearing about computational linguistics. It sounds really interesting based on what I saw online. Simply check schools that offer your course and then mail the graduate Cordinator about funding opportunities. Also check the Frequently asked questions section of the admissions website. You will most likely find information about the range of test scores required.

Miracleadeyeye:
Hello house,

I'm a newbie I stumble upon this page while searching for ways to get funding for my msc program in the US. I have been trying to get first hand info on how to get funding but no success yet, I also tried to lookup info on this page that will be related to my discipline but I can't seem to find anything related to "Linguistics" I am considering a MSc program in computational linguistics . Please Anybody, I will to know what GRE score would be sufficient enough to fund a MSc program in Computational linguistics and considering the fact that I'm not a maths oriented student. (The GRE quantitative seems to be more easier for the mathematics oriented students)...

I'm presently in my final semester in a university here in Nigeria and my present undergraduate GPA is 4.3

Please anybody

OPEN PHD POSITION - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
I am recruiting for an open PhD position in my research group, and looking for candidates with a strong chemical engineering background. My research is in process systems engineering, with a focus on chemical process control. This is a very exciting research area that applies optimization and advanced mathematics to the design and characterization of new control designs that tackle important
industrial issues such as process operational safety and process profitability.We utilize a range of techniques to simulate and mathematically analyze closed-loop systems to tackle cutting-edge problems, including cybersecurity of chemical process control systems, developing physics-based models for control design from process data, and accounting for the impacts of time-varying process input policies on equipment material fidelity. Wayne State University is also uniquely placed in the city of Detroit, which is an exciting place to be right now as it is undergoing revitalization.

If you are interested in being considered for this PhD position, you can apply officially to the PhD program in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Wayne State University on-line. If you would like to ask any questions before applying, I would be happy to answer them. You can email me at helen.durand@wayne.edu. You can also find out more about my research group on my website: http://durand.eng.wayne.edu/.

Congrats

learner007:
When it's your Time, it's your time...Visa approved today at Walter Carrington. In HIS time, HE makes all things beautiful. Off to work, transcripts later. Thank you to all

Medicine after death. The governor knew about it. He didn't expect the backlash.