Cover Letter Outline

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