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申请专业：机械工程PhD

面试问题：

学生：Hi, is that professor ...

教授：yes, speaking

学生：Hi, this is ...

教授：Oh, hi, how are u

学生：Good, thanks

教授：Did you submit the application to Princeton?

学生：Yes, blablabl

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教授：Do you use FEM?

学生：Yes

教授：did you made code or use commercial software.

学生：Commercial software.

教授：Did you make the solver or use the available solver.

学生：I use the available sovler, blabla.

教授：What research did you do in college and graudate school, and for what part did you use FEM

学生：(talk about my research,blablabla),what numerical methods do you use?

教授：For fluid mechanics, we use ...., for .., we use......We need students to completely understand FEM.

学生：.........

教授：What is your contribution to your lated published paper?

学生：I derived a new equation to take ...into account.blablabla

教授：What is the importance of that contribution?

学生：....Well....well..ok, that is hard to explain....（因为这个教授不是我的领域的，所以我解释了半天她也不懂）

教授：Well, I just want to make sure you really understand the fundamental of this research.some students of mine just use FEM to solve an equation,they do not really understand what they are doing.

学生：Ok, I see your point. Basically, I only use FEM as a tool. but the paper is based on my own theory which is extended from XXX theory.

教授：Ok.good. did you read professor xx's recently paper?

学生：No, I did not know that.

教授：Ok,so i actually have another two candidates, , I will see who is more proper for my group, they are also good students. I can only take one more Ph.D., because I have a post Doc. who is occupying most of the funds.

学生：Sure, I understand.

教授：If you have any question, write e-mail to my students...and pls send me your paper and CV again.

学生：Ok.sure

教授：Ok, talk to you later.

学生：Ok, bye.

大概10分钟时间，还有一些我问题我忘记了，就没有写上去。总之重点就是，掌握一门计算方法是很重要的，并且最好是自己会编程写程序，比如fortran,我就不会fortran，所以有点吃亏，感觉这个老师的程序都是用fortran写的。教授想知道你对自己做的研究到底清不清楚，还是只是糊里糊涂的算一些东西。最后多说一句，我不是在transfer，我只是明年MS就毕业了，所以要申请PHD了。