TUM MSPE Interview questions

By Zain Haider on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 5:58am

Following are the questions which were asked during the MSPE interview. Keep in mind that the technical questions
are just for having an idea about your basic knowledge. I think the decisive factors for your selection in interview
would be how effectively you convince them about your motivation to come to MSPE, TUM and Germany. Your
confidence and attittude matters a lot. If you have cleared the first stage, 75% of your work is done. You need to be
positive for clearing or scoring good on the interview.
Dont expect that if you are from mechanical background you will only be asked mechanical questions or vice versa.
They expect you to have a very basic idea of the other related subjects also.
General Questions
These are the most important questions and they should be answered confidently and precisely.
1- Your motivation to come to germany
2- Your motivation to select the Power & Energy sector
3- Your motivation to select TUM and MSPE
4- Why should you be selected?
1. About University/Program
a. Why have you applied here
b. Where else have you applied
c. Your key interest in a particular field of Communication Systems or Electronics
d. About your job if you are doing now after you have completed your BS
e. Anything similar that you have written in your CV or SOP
Other questions related to your CV and your motivation letter. Write down the answer of the above questions on a
piece of paper and while giving interview on skype, you can keep that with you in order to answer the questions
confidently and in a prepared style.


Technical Questions
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These are also from your cv and the basic concepts of important terms of the subjects related to your degree. Last
time there were also questions from Mathematics regarding integration or derivatives of very common functions.

- Electrical / Electronics
1- Ohm's law
2- Difference b/w synchronous and asynchronous machines
3- Basic electronic devices and their functions (transisitor, diodes, thyristors etc.)
4- Power factor (its correction)
5- reactive, active, apparent power
6- Components of control system
7- poles and zeroes and how the stabilty of the system is defined by poles
8- How to change the direction of a running motor?
9- Photovoltaics and Fuel cells (just operating principles)
10- What is transfer function? (control systems)
11- Main Component of Control Loop.
12- Main electrical component of the model of transmision line
13- Resonance Frequency
14- Difference between Induction motor and synchronous motor
15- Nominal voltage level in Pakistan
16- PID controller
17- Servomechanism
18- Generator principle

- General Mathematics
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1- Integration of (1/x)
2- Derivative of (e^x)
3- Fourier Transform
4- Integral of cos x
5- How to check whether the square matrix has inverse ?


Second link:
5. Basics of Electronics
a. No. of Transistor used in constructing AND, OR gates using CMOS
b. Power dissipation in BJT and CMOS. Which one in better?
c. Some similar stuff that you can come across while reading my reply. ;)