PHD Manufacturing Management Personal Purpose
- Robert Edinger
- Oct 26
- 3 min read

A young man from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), I came to the United States for my university education, I have worked extremely hard to rise to the level where I feel entirely confident pursuing a Ph.D. degree in my field. I am pleased to now have the maturity to know precisely what it is that I want to pursue on a professional level.
After playing with gadgetry for years as a child, early on, I had fantasies about designing and making gadgets. I am a pragmatic person who loves to contribute to economic development, especially as far as it involves electronics engineering, the area in which I will soon complete my undergraduate studies. As my thinking developed, I began to see the electronics industry as part of the bigger picture of economic development. Thus, my intellectual curiosity led me to earn an MBA from the University of ____, graduating in May of 2014.
Completing my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering Technology helped me to fulfill a childhood dream of fully immersing myself in the study of electronic gadgets. Graduating with an MBA in Operation Management reflects how my interests have become focused over the years, with my passion for electronics gradually being redirected to the world of business and, most specifically, manufacturing.
I am proud of being Arab, and I treasure my heritage as someone from the UAE. Business is the aspect of Arab-American relations that I find most appealing, and someday I look forward to returning to the UAE to do research in quality control practices, especially the implementation of total quality management (TQM) as a tool for improving work culture and organizational efficiency.

I am applying to your PHD program in Manufacturing Management at ____ because it is the best place for me to gain the highest level of exposure possible to the electronics industry alongside an in-depth knowledge of manufacturing engineering functions and the challenges we face, especially in terms of energy.
I want to help enhance the quality of production in the UAE. I look forward to cultivating heightened expertise in quantitative and model-building methods of inquiry. I seek a broad, interdisciplinary base of knowledge about the numerous and extraordinarily complex relationships between manufacturing/engineering functions, on the one hand, and other parts of the enterprise in question, on the other. I look forward to a most thoroughgoing and rigorous doctoral training in empirical research methods and traditional and emerging standards of excellence in manufacturing education. Several years from now, I would like to teach in the UAE with a focus on the importance of quality standards and practices and how to improve and safeguard quality practices in the UAE. Since I have done both my degrees so far at the University of ____ and am wonderfully comfortable here, I would like to continue my studies through the terminal degree in my field here at the University of ____. I have total funding for up to five years of study from my country, the UAE.

My dream is to have a long and productive life as an educator in global markets and production. My education and experience in operations and technical environments have given me confidence that I will enjoy excellence and success in my field. I have worked extremely hard to refine my interpersonal and communication skills and I have become determined to increase my analytical skills to quickly develop creative and effective approaches to novel situations. I am an effective and efficient team leader and am accustomed to working with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. I am results-oriented in whatever work that I do. I am a patient and flexible individual, easy to work with, and very much in touch with the global character of our business environment and the dominant role of innovative technology in launching and streamlining businesses worldwide. I have traveled around much of the world, which has made me a cosmopolitan man who has studied the variety of ways in which quality practices are put into place in different societies. I have learned by far the most over my last 8 years in the U.S.
I look forward to giving my all to your program and I want to thank you for consideration of my application.
PHD Manufacturing Management Personal Purpose






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