PERSONAL STATEMENT: MUHAMMAD FADLI ALIM ARSANI

The profession of an Electrical and Electronic engineer is built on the idea of

improving systems to help humanity. Take a smart phone for example, it has revolutionized
how we communicate while electrical systems in medical equipment had allowed us to
monitor more efficiently the disease suffered by the unlucky ones and the electronics in
security systems allowed us to feel safer. These are the tremendous changes Electrical and
Electronic engineering made for the past few years and I’m positive that it has yet to meet its
end of evolving this world. Those are my ultimate reason of choosing Electrical and
Electronic engineering as a course: to help the world, revolutionise it, and let the people
evolve it.
I have led numerous projects throughout my two years as the President of my school’s
Physics Club. One that stood out the most to me was when I organized a “Go Green” camp
which attracted participation of students from different schools. For my booth, mt team and I
made a “Buzz Wire” game using recycled shoe boxes, bendable metal rod, straws, pens and
electronic components like buzzers, LED, connecting wires, switch, and batteries. The aim of
the game was to guide the grip mounted loop against the metal rod shaped into a maze
without touching the loop to it all the way to the end. We charged those who played the game
MYR 3.50 for each round. We managed to raise about MYR 250 which we then donated to a
rural school to help students to buy revision materials for their Malaysian Certificate of
Education (SPM) exam.
During my leisure time, I enjoy dismantling my old toys or anything that I could find
at home and turn them into something useful such as a mini fan, torchlight and mini motor-
operated saw made from a Coca-Cola bottle cap, an ice cream stick and the motor from my
broken Quadcopter that could cut through papers and boxes. The satisfaction of having these
inventions working although it’s not that complex, is indescribable. For every new invention,
I become more overzealous towards the field of Electrical and Electronics engineering. In my
final year of High School, my excitement in creating and inventing stuffs overflowed. I made
a solar dryer to make dried bananas, known as “Kerepek Pisang” to be sold at school and this
turned out to be a hit as “Kerepek Pisang” is a famous traditional Malaysian snack. I managed
to make a profit of about MYR 320 throughout my days selling it to the students. As the
name suggests, the solar dryer was fully solar-operated making it environmentally friendly.
As much as I believe how electronics inventions are needed to improve lives, I also believe in
how crucial it is to consider their environmental impact and that my future inventions will
eliminate carbon footprints, if not, reduce it to an acceptable level.
In 2015, my school sent a group of 5 students to represent our school in a
programming camp called “D-code Camp” that lasted for 4 days and 3 nights and I was
elected as the leader of the group. I learned several programming languages like C++,
JavaScript and Phyton. We even built our own website that reads the codes we typed
together. Yet, what hyped me the most was when we learned to dismantle the computer and
put it back together again. They also gave us the Raspberry Pi kit and we assembled it by
ourselves. I was flabbergasted with the way it operated and read the codes. At that instance, I
feel the spark between me and the field of Electrical and Electronics engineering.
Learning Physics has always been the main reason I love to go to school especially
when we are learning about circuits, logic gates or anything related to Electrical and
Electronics. I always be the one who will score full mark for the topical tests on that chapter.
I sometimes stayed up until 4 a.m. doing “D.I.Y” projects related to Electrical and
Electronics. It’s the relish of seeing the electronics components in my projects functioning
perfectly that kept me awake until that hour. There are some points in my life where I failed
to get my inventions working but instead of having that demotivate me, I became more
determine to examine what’s wrong with them and try to make them work again. For me
that’s how life works. When something goes the other way around, be positive and find a
solution. Furthermore, in school, I was given the trust from my teachers to be the head of the
school prefects as they see me as aBeing a school prefect had definitely shaped me into a
person with the complete set of skills to be a great student. I was trained to work under
pressure and get my work done not just on time but in a perfect presentation. This experience
definitely taught me how to organize time wisely. With all that plethora of responsibilities on
my shoulder, I still managed to get and maintain good grades in every exam. I received 8
awards, all at once for getting the highest marks for 8 out of 9 subject I took when I was in
form 5. I participated in Kangaroo Math Competition and awarded the Certificate of
Proficiency and qualified to represent my school in the Math Olympiad Competition. For me,
no matter how much hurdles coming in my way, as a student I still have to get good results
despite being challenged mentally and academically. In addition to getting myself ready with
the skills needed to be a good student, I worked in a restaurant as a waiter while waiting for
my SPM result. This had trained me to work so well under someone else’s command as well
as to prioritize urgent tasks. I believe these skills are vital for a student so that we can
communicate with our lecturers and peers in the best way as well as juggling with all the
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I have interminable passion towards the field of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
acting as my wings that will help me fly to my dreams. Hence, I believe the prestigious
universities in the United Kingdom will be a great landing spot for me.