During my bachelor’s telecommunication engineering, each semester I was delighted to embark on subjects amalgamating engineering with diverse physical sciences. Engineering Economics, Mathematical Modeling, Antenna and Propagation, Entrepreneurship Managing are such examples that taught me of engineering being an intellectual understanding of social needs rather than a rigorous exercise of scary mathematics. My viewpoint of engineering further revolutionized while working in the editorial team of my university’s annual magazine, Synergy.

I did my final year project on FPGA based implementation of TF-RDLMS FIR filter using VHDL. It was the same year when I took over as Editor-in-Chief of Synergy.
The worth of management in both challenging and noncompetitive milieus was the most valuable implication I learnt that year.

During my apprenticeships at SIEMENS, Islamabad and Commissioner’s Office, Rawalpindi I realized that no matter what discipline of life one follows, one’s practices can’t remain isolated. Troubleshooting a fault in networking or coordinating hierarchical communication in an office, I found I was congruently dealing with technology and management. These experiences provided me the opportunity to rethink of my future ambitions. I was tempted to experiment.

Combining Engineering and Management in one degree, there couldn’t have been a more innovative and exciting deal. I went through the proposed curriculum of Engineering Systems and whereas I was pleased with its balanced content, I also understood that it would be exigent learning real-time management processes for delivering engineering work. I strongly deem that this is the best option for me to pursue in graduate study.

Motivations which push aspirations into novel practices are far beyond clichéd quotations. One’s niche in the convoluted world of commotion has to be earned assertively and for that, I believe life needs to be challenged, interfered and experimented. This uncovers its true spirit. Studying in an environment of brains representing multiple ethnicities would require extra painstaking competition.

Opening up vistas of diversification from present trends is the way to future. I believe an MS in Systems Engineering from University of Texas, Arlington is one such way. I’d be glad to be a UTA alumnus.