Cover Letter Outline
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 22:53 — rupp
I. Introduction
A. Mention the job title and company name
B. Discuss interest in the company
C. Discuss why I would fit in their environment
1. Talk about technical knowledge
2. Mention values of the company as determined from
their website
II. Education
A. Discuss relevant classes (bioelectricity, physiology,
introductory biology, signals and systems)
1. Content and technical information
2. Projects in these classes
a. Bioelectricity – modeled action potential in Matlab
from the Hodgkin-Huxley equation
b. Physiology – team projects where we calculated
various physiological values that would be useful in
biomedical engineering projects
B. Discuss relevant labs (bioinstrumentation, biomechanics,
biomolecules)
1. Skills learned in these labs
2. Design projects
III. Practical Experience – relevant laboratory exposure
A. Internship at MED Institute
1. Research division of COOK Group
2. Worked in a lab and completed a project that I
presented to our clients, COOK Urological (patent
pending…?)
B. Research at Purdue University
1. Two semesters working with Dr. Harbin investigating
the extracellular matrix and the role collagen plays in
cell differentiation
a. Wrote a Matlab code to import and analyze a large
amount of data collected from a rheometer
investigating the viscoelastic properties of collagen
b. Designed an experiment to determine the
permeability of collagen for flow system
applications, such as a bioreactor
2. Recently began working with Dr. Otto exploring the
tissue response to chronically implanted electrodes for
brain-machine interface applications
IV. Closing
A. Summary of experience in one sentence
B. Thanks, will be in contact
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