Zhao Jing is extremely
versatile and besides her excellent technical talent,
she also has strong leadership qualities, effective
communication skills and excellent interpersonal
skills. Her team in Singapore is the regional champion
of Philips Semiconductor in Quality Improvement Conversion.
She has also represented Philips Singapore at the
Philips worldwide competition at Kunmin, China, in
2003.
Zhao Jing thinks that the X-factor in winning these awards can
be attributed to her learning experience at SMA. “SMA gave
me not only the solid knowledge base and skills I needed to succeed,
but also enlarged my mindset, which is something I will enjoy during
my entire life. SMA has great programmes where you get the
research facilities and technical support in Singapore and MIT
simultaneously. SMA is also the place where you receive stimulation
to develop ideas due to the challenging environment of MIT and
other top universities in the U.S.”
She still remembers that she was initially intimidated by the contents
of the syllabus. “I was hesitant about the first class
assignment from MIT as I was required to provide my own links between
the assignment and the materials covered in lectures. |
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Gradually,
I started to realise that the amazing purpose of education in MIT
is that you have to create your own methods to set up the models
and concepts for your projects, rather than follow other people’s ideas.”
“Looking back at my time at SMA, I realise that my three years of working
experience in SSMC and studying experience in SMA have
made me an extremely down-to-earth person. I am grateful to my
advisor, Associate Professor Lu Li because without his
recommendation I would never have had any chance to become a
student of the challenging and enriching AMM&NS programme.
I would also like to thank my advisor at MIT, Professor Carl
Thompson
for his support in all my experiments at MIT. I do think that
the SMA programme is a really effective and innovative engineering
education and research collaboration.”
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